Today in History - History - May 17th

1942Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler

1989Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa

1964Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational

1536Anne Boleyn's 4 "lovers" executed

1544Scot Earl Matthew Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII

1897The first successful submarine that can run submerged for any considerable distance and combines electric and gasoline engines is launched in the USA by its designer John Philip Holland

1970Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits

18767th US Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer leaves Ft Lincoln

199844th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Se Ri Pak

199238th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King

1490Albert of Prussia, Ansbach, 1st Duke of Prussia

1903James "cool papa" Bell, Starkville, Mississippi, baseball center fielder in Negro league baseball, considered by many to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game (d. 1991)

1962Craig Ferguson, Glasgow, Scottish actor, writer and comedian

1961Enya [Eithne Ní Bhraonáin], Gweedore, County Donegal, Irish singer and songwriter (A Day Without Rain)

1827US President Andrew Johnson (18) weds Eliza McCardle (16) in Warrenton, Tennessee

1923Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (21) weds assistant director Rudolf Sieber (26) in Berlin, Germany

1997Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London

1947NBA center George Mikan (22) weds college sweetheart Patricia Lu Daveny

1829John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)

2012Donna Summer, American singer, dies from lung cancer at 63

1694Johann Michael Bach, German composer, dies at 46

1886John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer of agricultural equipment who founded Deere & Company, dies at 82