17 June
June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian
calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining.
Events
1400-1899
1900-1949
1950-1999
- 1953 - Workers Uprising: In East
Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to
quell a rebellion.
- 1961 - The New
Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian
Labour Congress.
- 1963 - The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v.
Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public
schools.
- 1971 - Representatives of Japan and the
United States sign the Okinawa
Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.
- 1972 - Watergate
scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the
offices of the Democratic National
Committee, in an attempt by the Republican party to illegally wiretap the
opposition.
- 1982 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- 1991 - Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South
Africans at birth.
- 1992 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George
H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
- 1994 - Following a televised highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O. J. Simpson is arrested
for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her
friend Ronald Goldman.
- 1995 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the third annual of
their live concert Weenie Roast with Better Than Ezra, Bush, Elastica, Hole, Rage Against the Machine,
The Ramones, Rancid, Soul Asylum, Sponge,
Sublime, Matthew Sweet, Throwing Muses and White Zombie.
2000-2099
- 2000 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the third annual of
their live concert Weenie Roast with Creed, Cypress Hill,
Everclear, Godsmack, Incubus, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Lit,
Moby, No Doubt, The Offspring, Ozzy Osbourne, Stone Temple Pilots and Third Eye Blind.
Births
1200-1899
1900-1949
- 1900 - Martin Bormann,
Nazi official (d. 1945)
- 1904 - Ralph Bellamy, actor (d.
1991)
- 1907 - Charles Eames, American
designer and architect (d. 1978)
- 1909 - Elmer Lee
Andersen, American politician and governor of Minnesota
- 1910 - Red Foley, country musician (d. 1968)
- 1914 - John Hersey, author (d.
1993)
- 1915 - Karl Targownik,
psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. 1996)
- 1917 - Lena Horne, singer
- 1917 - Dean Martin, singer (d. 1995)
- 1917 - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
- 1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch,
American football star
- 1929 - Tigran Petrosian,
World chess champion
- 1943 - Newt Gingrich, American
politician
- 1943 - Barry Manilow,
musician
- 1945 - Ken Livingstone,
Mayor of London
- 1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgian cycling champion
- 1945 - Anupam Kher, actor, India
- 1946 - Peter Rosei, writer
1950-1999
Deaths
1500-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
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