Date | Text | |||
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100 years anniversary | ||||
17 May 1924 | Frantisek Kovaricek: Composer | |||
17 May 1924 | Lord Tombs: CEO (Rolls Royce) | |||
17 May 1924 | Thomas Baird: Vice-admiral | |||
17 May 1924 | 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2 | |||
17 May 1924 | Francis Tombs, Baron Tombs, English engineer and politician | |||
17 May 1924 | Frantisek Kovaricek composer | |||
17 May 1924 | Lord Tombs CEO (Rolls Royce) | |||
17 May 1924 | Thomas Baird Vice-Admiral | |||
17 May 1924 | 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2 | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
17 May 1949 | Timothy Cordy: British director (Town / Country Planning Association) | |||
17 May 1949 | British government recognizes Republic of Ireland | |||
17 May 1949 | Bill Bruford, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (Yes, King Crimson, UK, Earthworks, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, and National Health) | |||
17 May 1949 | Timothy Cordy British director (Town/Country Planning Association) | |||
17 May 1949 | British government recognizes Republic of Ireland | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
17 May 1974 | Marcia Turner: Cambridge, Massachusetts -- Miss America (Mass-Top 10-1996) | |||
17 May 1974 | Charles Braswell: Actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49 | |||
17 May 1974 | Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet | |||
17 May 1974 | Andrea Corr, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress (The Corrs) | |||
17 May 1974 | Wiki González, Venezuelan baseball player | |||
17 May 1974 | Eddie Lewis, American soccer player | |||
17 May 1974 | Sendhil Ramamurthy, American actor | |||
17 May 1974 | William Yiampoy, Kenyan runner | |||
17 May 1974 | Ernest Nash, German-American photographer and scholar (b. 1898) | |||
17 May 1974 | The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. It is the deadliest attack of the Troubles and the deadliest terrorist attack in the Republic's history. There are allegations that British state forces were involved. | |||
17 May 1974 | Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall. | |||
17 May 1974 | birth Andrea Corr, singer, tin whistle, piano with Irish group The Corrs. Had the 1998 UK No.3 single 'What Can I Do' and their 'Talk On Corners' was the best selling UK album of 1998, spending 142 weeks on the UK chart. Andrea released her debut album, Ten Feet High, in 2007. Along with her siblings, she was appointed an honorary M.B.E. in 2005. | |||
17 May 1974 | Marcia Turner Cambridge MA, Miss America (Massachusetts-Top 10-1996) | |||
17 May 1974 | Charles Braswell actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49 | |||
17 May 1974 | Bayern M | |||
17 May 1974 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
17 May 1999 | Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian trumpet player and producer (b. 1949) | |||
17 May 1999 | Lembit Oll, Estonian chess player (b. 1966) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
17 May 2004 | Gunnar Graps, Estonian singer (Magnetic Band and Gunnar Graps Group) (b. 1951) | |||
17 May 2004 | Jørgen Nash, Danish poet and painter (b. 1920) | |||
17 May 2004 | Tony Randall, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1920) | |||
17 May 2004 | Ezzedine Salim, Iraqi politician (b. 1943) | |||
17 May 2004 | Vladislav Terzyul, Siberian mountaineer (b. 1953) | |||
17 May 2004 | The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
17 May 2009 | Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, author, and poet (b. 1920) | |||
17 May 2009 | Jung Seung-hye, South Korean journalist and producer (b. 1965) | |||
17 May 2009 | Black Eyed Peas went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Boom Boom Pow', their second UK No.1 hit. | |||
17 May 2009 | Green Day went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their eighth studio album '21st Century Breakdown'. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
17 May 2014 | Miss Beazley, American dog of George W. Bush (b. 2004) | |||
17 May 2014 | Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) | |||
17 May 2014 | Clarence Ellis, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943) | |||
17 May 2014 | C. P. Krishnan Nair, Indian businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts (b. 1922) | |||
17 May 2014 | Bob Odom, American soldier and politician (b. 1935) | |||
17 May 2014 | Douangchay Phichit, Laotian politician (b. 1944) | |||
17 May 2014 | Thongbanh Sengaphone, Laotian politician (b. 1953) | |||
17 May 2014 | A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people. | |||
17 May 2014
Gerald Edelman |
death Gerald Edelman Gerald Edelman, 84, American scientist, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on understanding the structure of antibodies |