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September 17th, 2007	Event	AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
September 17th, 2004	Event	Tamil is declared the first classical language in India.
September 17th, 2001	Event	The New York Stock Exchange opened for the first time since the September 11 attacks; the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest point drop in its history, closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
September 17th, 1993	Event	Last Russian troops leave Poland.
September 17th, 1991	Event	North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
September 17th, 1991	Event	The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
September 17th, 1983	Event	Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
September 17th, 1980	Event	After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
September 17th, 1980	Event	Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asuncion, Paraguay.
September 17th, 1978	Event	The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.

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