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June 17

June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
• 1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
• 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]
• 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.[1]
• 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. [1]
• 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.[1]
• 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). [1]
• 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.

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)
• 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)
• 1917 - Lena Horne, singer
• 1917 - Dean Martin, singer (d. 1995)
• 1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football star
• 1929 - Tigran Petrosian, World chess champion
• 1943 - Newt Gingrich, American politician
• 1945 - Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
• 1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgian cycling champion
• 1945 - Anupam Kher, actor, India
• 1946 - Barry Manilow, musician
• 1946 - Peter Rosei, writer
• 1958 - Jello Biafra, musician, politician
• 1963 - Greg Kinnear, actor (As Good As It Gets, Mystery Men)
• 1964 - Michael Gross, swimmer
• 1966 - Jason Patric, actor
• 1967 - Antonie Jansen, consultant
• 1980 - Venus Williams, tennis player

Deaths

• 1696 - John III Sobieski, king of Poland (b. 1629)
• 1898 - Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
• 1939 - Eugen Weidmann, last public guillotine execution in France
• 1961 - Jeff Chandler, actor
• 1982 - Roberto Calvi, banker
• 1986 - Kate Smith, singer
• 1996 - Thomas Kuhn, philosopher
• 2002 - Fritz Walter, football player
• 2002 - Willie Davenport, athlete
• 2004 - Gerry McNeil, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goalie (b. 1926)
• 2004 - Sara Lidman, Swedish writer (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

• 1944 - Icelandic Independence Day, from Denmark
• National holiday of West Germany until 1990, see Workers' Uprising of 1953 in East Germany

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