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Events on the 17th of May in history

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17 May 0218 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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17 May 0352 Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
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17 May 0884 St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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17 May 1395 Battle of Rovine, Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army.
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17 May 1521 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
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17 May 1525 Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
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17 May 1527 P
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17 May 1536 Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed
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17 May 1536 George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
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17 May 1536 The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage.
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17 May 1536 Anne Boleyn's 4 "lovers" executed
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17 May 1544 Scottish Earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
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17 May 1579 Artois / Henegouwen / French-Flanders sign Treaty / Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish Duke van Parma as land guardian
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17 May 1590 Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
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17 May 1620 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
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17 May 1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
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17 May 1631 Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
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17 May 1642 Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
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17 May 1648 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
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17 May 1672 Frontenac becomes Governor of New France (Canada)
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17 May 1673 Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
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17 May 1678 King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
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17 May 1712 Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of the Netherlands"
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17 May 1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
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17 May 1742 Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
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17 May 1744 French army takes Austrian Netherlands
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17 May 1750 Tax revolt in Gorinchem
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17 May 1756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
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17 May 1775 American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec.
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17 May 1787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
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17 May 1792 The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
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17 May 1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
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17 May 1794 Hard frost in southern New England
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17 May 1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
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17 May 1804 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
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17 May 1805 Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.
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17 May 1808 Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
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17 May 1809 Papal States annexed by France
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17 May 1814 Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
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17 May 1814 The Constitution of Norway is signed and Crown Prince Christian Frederick of Denmark is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
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17 May 1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day)
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17 May 1814 Norwegian constitution passed by constituent assembly at Eidsvoll
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17 May 1837 Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)
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17 May 1845 Rubber band patents
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17 May 1846 Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax
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17 May 1848 Premier Earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
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17 May 1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St. Louis, Missouri
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17 May 1849 A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
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17 May 1853 Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
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17 May 1862 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
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17 May 1863 Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
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17 May 1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
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17 May 1864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
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17 May 1865 The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
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17 May 1869 Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.
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17 May 1871 Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
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17 May 1872 Bohemian Club incorporated
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17 May 1875 Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
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17 May 1875 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
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17 May 1876 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Fort Lincoln
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17 May 1877 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
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17 May 1881 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40
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17 May 1881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC
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17 May 1881 Revised version of New Testament
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17 May 1883 Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha
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17 May 1884 Alaska becomes a US territory
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17 May 1890 Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel" premieres in NYC
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17 May 1890 Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
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17 May 1890 Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry" premieres in Rome
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17 May 1894 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49
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17 May 1895 W G Grace completes his 100th 100 vs Somerset at Bristol
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17 May 1898 Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503]
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17 May 1899 Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
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17 May 1900 Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
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17 May 1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
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17 May 1902 Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
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17 May 1903 Cleveland Indians beat the New York Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
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17 May 1904 Maurice Ravel's "Sh
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17 May 1905 Waseda University of Tokyo defeats Los Angeles High School 5-3 in baseball
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17 May 1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
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17 May 1910 Canada sets the designs for the 1 cent and 50 cent coins
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17 May 1910 Canada sets the designs for the 1
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17 May 1911 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
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17 May 1914 The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
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17 May 1915 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st andwinds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
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17 May 1915 The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
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17 May 1915 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58
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17 May 1915 Last liberal British Government of Asquith falls
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17 May 1915 National Baptist Convention chartered
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17 May 1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
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17 May 1920 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
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17 May 1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
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17 May 1921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
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17 May 1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
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17 May 1923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (South Carolina)
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17 May 1924 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
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17 May 1925 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
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17 May 1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
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17 May 1926 German Government of Marx takes power
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17 May 1927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
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17 May 1928 9th modern Olympic games open in Amsterdam
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17 May 1930 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
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17 May 1932 Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
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17 May 1932 Congress changes the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
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17 May 1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
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17 May 1937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
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17 May 1938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
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17 May 1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
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17 May 1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
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17 May 1939 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
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17 May 1940 World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
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17 May 1940 World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
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17 May 1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
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17 May 1940 Nazis bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
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17 May 1941 Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
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17 May 1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
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17 May 1943 World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
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17 May 1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in the Netherlands New-Guinea
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17 May 1944 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
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17 May 1944 Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
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17 May 1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
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17 May 1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
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17 May 1946 KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
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17 May 1946 President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
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17 May 1947 "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
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17 May 1948 Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
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17 May 1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel
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17 May 1949 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland
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17 May 1952 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4
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17 May 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open
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17 May 1953 Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game
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17 May 1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
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17 May 1954 The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
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17 May 1955 Dutch Government of Drees resigns
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17 May 1957 School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education
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17 May 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (District of Columbia)
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17 May 1958 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
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17 May 1958 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
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17 May 1959 Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
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17 May 1960 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California
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17 May 1960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA
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17 May 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
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17 May 1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
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17 May 1963 Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in New York, to become WWF champion
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17 May 1963 Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
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17 May 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational
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17 May 1964 Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
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17 May 1966 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
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17 May 1967 Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
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17 May 1967 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as the film "Don't Look Back"
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17 May 1968 European Space Research Organization launches 1st satellite
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17 May 1968 Frank Howard belts record 8th homerun in 5th straight game
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17 May 1968 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
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17 May 1969 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat, " by Maskman and The Agents hits #92
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17 May 1969 Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
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17 May 1969 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat" by Maskman & The Agents hits #92
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17 May 1969 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6
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17 May 1969 Baltimore, Cleveland & Pittsburgh agree to go from NFC to the AFC in the NFL
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17 May 1969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
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17 May 1970 Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
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17 May 1970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
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17 May 1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
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17 May 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra
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17 May 1971 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell" premieres off-Broadway
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17 May 1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination
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17 May 1972 Netherlands and China PR exchange ambassadors
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17 May 1972 Netherlands & China People's Republic exchange ambassadors
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17 May 1972 Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London
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17 May 1973 "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
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17 May 1973 Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
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17 May 1973 US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle, Colorado
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17 May 1973 Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
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17 May 1973 Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green homerun during a 5-4 loss to the A's
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17 May 1973 Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger homerun
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17 May 1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
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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.
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17 May 1974 Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
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17 May 1974 Bayern M
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17 May 1974 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet
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17 May 1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
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17 May 1975 NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
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17 May 1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
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17 May 1975 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
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17 May 1975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
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17 May 1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
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17 May 1975 NBC paid $5 million for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
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17 May 1976 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & Michael Learned win
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17 May 1976 Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed
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17 May 1977 Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel
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17 May 1978 Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit homerun
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17 May 1979 -12
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17 May 1979 Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
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17 May 1979 Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 homeruns
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17 May 1980 Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
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17 May 1980 Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
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17 May 1980 General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
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17 May 1980 On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
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17 May 1980 (Vivekananda Selva) Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on 1 foot for 33 hours
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17 May 1980 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
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17 May 1980 Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
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17 May 1981 "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
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17 May 1981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
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17 May 1981 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
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17 May 1983 The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
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17 May 1983 Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
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17 May 1983 Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
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17 May 1983 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games
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17 May 1984 Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
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17 May 1984 Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning
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17 May 1984 Mai Shanley, 21, (New Mexico), crowned 33rd Miss USA
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17 May 1985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
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17 May 1986 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
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17 May 1986 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
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17 May 1987 An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
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17 May 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
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17 May 1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
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17 May 1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
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17 May 1989 Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
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17 May 1989 Nelson Mandela receives a BA degree from University of South Africa
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17 May 1989 Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825 million
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17 May 1990 The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
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17 May 1990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
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17 May 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,831.71
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17 May 1990 European court rules pension rights for both men & women
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17 May 1990 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
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17 May 1991 Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
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17 May 1991 Lupita Jones, 23, of M
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17 May 1992 Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)
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17 May 1992 Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.
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17 May 1992 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King
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17 May 1993 Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled
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17 May 1994 Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
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17 May 1994 Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
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17 May 1995 Shawn Nelson steals a tank from a military installation and goes on a rampage in San Diego resulting in a 25 minute police chase. Nelson is killed by an officer after the tank got stuck on a concrete barrier and tried to break free.
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17 May 1996 Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
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17 May 1996 Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wicket, Leicestershire vs Worcestershire
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17 May 1997 Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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17 May 1997 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54
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17 May 1997 Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
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17 May 1997 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom
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17 May 1998 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship
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17 May 2000 Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
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17 May 2004 The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
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17 May 2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
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17 May 2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
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17 May 2013 Two Metro-North commuter trains collide near Bridgeport, Connecticut injuring at least 72 people.
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17 May 2014 A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.
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17 May 2015 At least 9 people are killed and 18 injured, some by law enforcement and others in gunfire exchanges, in a shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco, Texas.
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