What important events happened on June 17?

Answer 1

* 1044 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, invades Hungary and defeats a Magyar army at the Battle of Ménfő. * 1253 - Mindaugas is crowned king of Lithuania. * 1348 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death. * 1415 - Jan Hus is burned at the stake. * 1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England. * 1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River. * 1495 - First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy. * 1535 - Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII after refusing to agree to Henry's decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church. * 1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England. * 1573 - Córdoba, Argentina is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera. * 1609 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion. * 1630 - Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany. * 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Ticonderoga: Due to a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York. * 1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. * 1799 - Ranjit Singh's 25,000 men start their march towards Lahore. * 1801 - Battle of Algeciras: The French navy are defeated by the British Royal Navy. * 1849 - Battle of Fredericia, Denmark, Danish Army under Generals Bülow and Rye beat the Army of Schleswig-Holstein, thereby keeping the Prussians from any victory over Denmark until 1864. * 1854 - In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held. * 1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. * 1887 - David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights. * 1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. * 1892 - 3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded. * 1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200. * 1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time. * 1908 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole. * 1917 - World War I: Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt. * 1919 - The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship. * 1928 - The world's ten largest hailstones fall in Potter, Nebraska. * 1933 - The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League, 4 to 2. * 1939 - Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed. * 1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. * 1944 - The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. * 1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. * 1957 - Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so. * 1962 - Sedan (nuclear test) * 1964 - Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom. * 1966 - Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as the first President. * 1967 - Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war. * 1974 - The radio program A Prairie Home Companion makes its first live broadcast. * 1975 - The Comoros declare independence from France. * 1978 - Yana Mintoff hurled horse manure onto the floor of the British House of Commons. * 1983 - Tony Blair gives his maiden speech in the British Parliament. * 1986 - Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France. * 1988 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster. * 1989 - The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers were killed as an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff. * 1999 - US Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams. * 2003 - The Corsicans rejected a referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for. * 2006 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years. 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Answer 2

• 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
• 1534 - European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick.
• 1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.
• 1575 - Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
• 1585 - The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
• 1770 - The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
• 1798 - Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the "war".
• 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
• 1834 - In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
• 1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
• 1863 - United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
• 1865 - American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• 1892 - Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
• 1898 - U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• 1911 - The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
• 1915 - World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
• 1915 - An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
• 1915 - Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
• 1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• 1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
• 1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
• 1941 - World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
• 1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
• 1944 - World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
• 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
• 1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• 1952 - The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop's Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.

• 1953 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• 1954 - Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
• 1956 - Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
• 1958 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
• 1959 - Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
• 1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.
• 1980 - During the Lebanese civil war, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
• 1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
• 1985 - Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
• 1991 - Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1997 - The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
• 2002 - A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
• 2005 - A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
• 2011 - Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction collapsed, one killed and 14 injured.

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Answer 3

1709 - Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava: Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.

1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.

1948 - The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).

1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.

1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electric chair by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.

2003 - Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 116 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only Survivor is a two-year-old boy who subsequently dies as a result of his injuries.

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Answer 4

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