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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_17
1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Okeechobee_hurricane
Around midday on September 13, the storm strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane and peaked with sustained winds of 160 mph (257 km/h). About six hours later, the system made landfall in Puerto Rico; it remains the only tropical cyclone on record to strike the island at Category 5 intensity, as of 2019.