17th June
June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian
calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining.
Events
- 1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael
An Gof.
- 1565 - Matsunaga
Hisahide assasinates the 13th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga
Yoshiteru.
- 1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims
a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
- 1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during
childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20
years to build her tomb, the Taj
Mahal.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill - The British forces take Bunker Hill outside of
Boston.
- 1789 - In France, the Third Estate declares itself as a national assembly.
- 1876 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud -
1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana
Territory. [1] (http://ne.essortment.com/battlerosebud_rfks.htm)
- 1885 - The Statue of
Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- 1898 - The Navy Hospital Corps is established.
- 1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart
starts her attempt to become the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the
Atlantic Ocean She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou
Gordon, mechanic.
- 1930 - U.S. President Herbert
Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law.
- 1930 - Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United
States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that
would give them certain benefits.
- 1940 - World War II: Operation Ariel begins - Allied
troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
- 1940 - World War II: Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
- 1940 - The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet
Union.
- 1944 - Iceland becomes independent from
Denmark and forms a republic.
- 1948 - A Douglas DC-6 carrying
United
Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount
Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
- 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 - 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
- 1239 - King Edward I of
England (d. 1307)
- 1682 - King Charles
XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
- 1703 - John Wesley, theologian,
founder of Methodists (d. 1791)
- 1808 - Henrik Wergeland,
Norwegian author
- 1810 - Ferdinand
Freiligrath (d. 1876)
- 1818 - Charles Gounod,
composer (d. 1893)
- 1832 - Sir William Crookes,
physicist, chemist (d. 1919)
- 1881 - Tommy Burns, World
Heavyweight Boxing Champion (d. 1955)
- 1882 - Igor Stravinsky,
composer (d. 1971)
- 1898 - M. C. Escher, artist (d.
1972)
- 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
- 1958 - Jello Biafra, musician,
politician
- 1963 - Greg Kinnear, actor
- 1964 - Michael Gross,
swimmer
- 1966 - Jason Patric, actor
- 1979 - Nick Rimando, D.C. United
goalkeeper
- 1980 - Venus Williams,
tennis player
Deaths
- 1565 - Ashikaga
Yoshiteru, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1536)
- 1696 - John III
Sobieski, king of Poland (b. 1629)
- 1719 - Joseph Addison,
politician and writer (b. 1672)
- 1898 - Edward
Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
- 1939 - Eugen Weidmann, last
public guillotine execution in France
- Dorothy Richardson - Dorothy Richardson, writer (b. 1873)
- 1961 - Jeff
Chandler, actor (b. 1918)
- 1979 - Duffy Lewis, Major League Baseball player (b. 1888)
- 1982 - Roberto Calvi,
banker
- 1986 - Kate Smith, singer
- 1996 - Thomas Kuhn,
philosopher
- 2002 - Willie Davenport,
athlete
- 2002 - Fritz Walter, football player
- 2004 - Gerry McNeil, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goalie (b. 1926)
- 2004 - Sara Lidman, Swedish
writer (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances
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