Notable Historical Events on June 17th
June 17th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
653 |
St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
656 |
Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam |
676 |
Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1091 |
Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland |
1119 |
Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders |
1291 |
Acre last crusader stronghold reconquered and destroyed after 200 years of crusader control by the Mamluks under Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil |
1397 |
Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway |
1462 |
vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia. |
1497 |
Battle of Deptford Bridge - forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat Cornish rebels led by Michael An Gof. |
1535 |
English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights |
1565 |
Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru. |
1579 |
Anti-English uprising in Ireland |
1579 |
Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion" |
1580 |
Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels |
1583 |
Brabant: Duke of Parma beats French mercenaries |
1609 |
Netherlands, England & France sign 12 year Covenant |
1631 |
Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal. |
1665 |
Battle at Viciosa: English & Portuguese army beat Spain |
1700 |
Massachussetts orders priest to leave the colony |
1734 |
French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine |
1745 |
American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton Island from French |
1773 |
Cúcuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar |
1775 |
Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill) |
1788 |
After a lengthy stay in Europe, John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams return to Boston |
1789 |
3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly |
1815 |
Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda |
1824 |
Bureau of Indian Affairs established |
1837 |
Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent |
1839 |
In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result |
1850 |
Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die) |
1855 |
Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, Crimea: 2,000+ killed |
1856 |
Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia |
1861 |
Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces |
1863 |
Battle at Middleburg, Virginia |
1863 |
Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia |
1863 |
Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta |
1863 |
Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer) |
1864 |
-18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia |
1864 |
640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished |
1864 |
General John B Hood replaces General Johnston |
1864 |
Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia |
1876 |
1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's) |
1876 |
Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother |
1877 |
Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory. |
1880 |
John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo |
1882 |
Tornado kills 130 in Iowa |
1885 |
Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' |
1894 |
1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont |
1895 |
US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan |
1897 |
William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti |
1898 |
US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii |
1898 |
The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established. |
1901 |
The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT. |
1902 |
US Congress pass the New Lands Reclamation Act, which establishes a fund from sale of public lands to build irrigation dams for arid Western lands |
1911 |
Belgium government of De Broqueville forms |
1915 |
The League to Enforce Peace is organised at Independence Hall in Philadelphia with William Howard Taft as president; its program anticipates the League of Nations |
1916 |
1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java |
1916 |
US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico |
1919 |
"Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres |
1920 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law |
1928 |
Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) |
1930 |
Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge |
1930 |
Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games |
1932 |
Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada |
1932 |
Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits. |
1933 |
Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob |
1937 |
Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY |
1938 |
Japan declares war on China |
1939 |
Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre. |
1940 |
France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II |
1940 |
General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London |
1940 |
Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland |
1940 |
USSR occupies Estonia |
1940 |
World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. |
1943 |
Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs |
1944 |
-19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba |
1944 |
Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons |
1944 |
Iceland declares independence from Denmark |
1944 |
Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland |
1944 |
Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London |
1945 |
Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day) |
1946 |
SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis |
1947 |
1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC |
1947 |
Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin |
1947 |
Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline |
1948 |
Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader |
1950 |
1st kidney transplant (Chicago) |
1950 |
Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact |
1951 |
"Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances |
1952 |
2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium |
1953 |
Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox) |
1953 |
Riots in East Germany for reunification |
1953 |
Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary |
1954 |
CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co) |
1954 |
Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1954 |
Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends |
1956 |
Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister |
1957 |
"So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orch peaks at #2 |
1957 |
Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores) |
1958 |
Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy |
1958 |
The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day |
1959 |
Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland |
1960 |
Ted Williams hit his 500th HR |
1961 |
"Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
1961 |
61st US Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich |
1961 |
Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt |
1962 |
62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA |
1962 |
Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago |
1962 |
Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers |
1962 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
1963 |
British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair |
1963 |
Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools |
1965 |
11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record) |
1965 |
1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon) |
1965 |
Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour |
1966 |
Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers |
1967 |
"Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5 |
1967 |
1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes |
1967 |
Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park performed |
1967 |
China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power |
1967 |
Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers & Athletics) |
1968 |
Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms |
1968 |
KQEC TV channel 32 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold |
1969 |
"Oh! Calcutta!" opens in NYC (almost entirely in the nude) |
1970 |
Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera |
1970 |
Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour |
1972 |
"Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38 |
1972 |
5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate |
1972 |
Chile president Allende forms new government |
1972 |
Looking Glass releases "Brandy" |
1972 |
9 firefighters are killed in the Hotel Vendome fire in Boston |
1972 |
Five White House plumbers apprehended after second burglary of Democratic Natl HQ, Watergate |
1973 |
1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa |
1973 |
73rd US Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA |
1973 |
Russian party leader Brezhnev visits US |
1974 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb the Houses of Parliament in London, injuring 11 people and causing extensive damage |
1975 |
Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US |
1976 |
ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA |
1976 |
Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor |
1978 |
"Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32 |
1978 |
Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs |
1978 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army kill an RUC officer and kidnap another near Crossmaglen, County Armagh |
1979 |
"Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances |
1979 |
79th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo |
1979 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
1981 |
Battle between Moslems & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed |
1982 |
US President Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech) |
1982 |
President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat |
1983 |
Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren exorcise a "werewolf demon" from Bill Ramsey, although the lack of photo or video evidence has called this claim into question |
1984 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1984 |
John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada |
1985 |
18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched |
1986 |
Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated |
1987 |
With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct. |
1988 |
Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens |
1988 |
Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0 |
1988 |
Soyuz TM-5 launches |
1988 |
Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case |
1989 |
US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
1990 |
"Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 62 perfs |
1990 |
"Zoya's Apartment" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 45 perfs |
1990 |
90th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 280 at Medinah CC in Medinah Il |
1990 |
chris johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
1991 |
Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78 |
1991 |
Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died |
1991 |
South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws |
1992 |
Conn Gov Lowell Weicker & WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day |
1992 |
Phila 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns |
1992 |
Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42 |
1993 |
Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit |
1994 |
1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago |
1994 |
OJ Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV) |
1995 |
"Who's Tommy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 899 performances |
1996 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse NY on WAQX 95.7 FM |
1997 |
NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000 |
2003 |
Moneyball, a book about the 2003 Oakland Athletics baseball team and GM Billy Beane's sabermetric approach, inspired by Bill James, is published |
2007 |
107th US Golf Open: Ángel Cabrera shoots a 285 at Oakmont GC PA |
2008 |
First day of legal same-sex marriage in California |
2008 |
62nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2 |
2009 |
43rd CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift & Brad Paisley wins |
2010 |
64th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 3 |
2012 |
France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election |
2012 |
Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election |
2012 |
American golfer, Webb Simpson, wins the US Open |
2012 |
112th US Golf Open: Webb Simpson shoots a 281 at Olympic Club CA |
2016 |
Health|CDC Reports 234 Pregnant Women in US With Zika |
2017 |
7 sailors missing, 2 injured after Navy destroyer collides with container ship off coast of Japan |
2017 |
Minnesota officer fired from police force after acquittal in Philando Castile shooting |
2017 |
New York Times sues FBI to get notes of Comey-Trump talks |
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