September 17

September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. It is preceded by September 16, and succeeded by September 18. Following September 17, there are 105 days in the year.

Blavatsky's Gem of the Day

"Death is a black camel that kneels at everybody's door. Death is a friend and a deliverer."

Events

• 1927 – Staff of American Theosophical Society moved into the newly completed L. W. Rogers Building.

Births

• 1864 – Anagarika Dharmapala, Sri Lankan Buddhist who worked with Col. Olcott in the Buddhist revival in Asia. He is the founder of the Maha Bodhi Society of India (d. 1933)

Deaths

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Holidays and observances

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External links

• This Date in Wikipedia