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Events on the 17th of June in history

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17 Jun 0653 St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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17 Jun 0656 Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam
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17 Jun 0676 Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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17 Jun 1091 Floris II de Vette becomes Earl of Holland
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17 Jun 1119 Charles the Good becomes Earl of Flanders
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17 Jun 1291 Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, and destroyed
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17 Jun 1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway
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17 Jun 1462 Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
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17 Jun 1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
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17 Jun 1535 English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights
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17 Jun 1565 Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
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17 Jun 1579 Anti-English uprising in Ireland
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17 Jun 1579 Francis Drake entered SF Bay
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17 Jun 1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
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17 Jun 1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of Calif
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17 Jun 1580 Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels
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17 Jun 1583 Brabant: Duke of Parma beats French mercenaries
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17 Jun 1596 The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
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17 Jun 1609 Netherlands, England and France sign 12 year Covenant
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17 Jun 1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
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17 Jun 1665 Battle at Viciosa: English and Portuguese army beat Spain
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17 Jun 1673 French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
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17 Jun 1700 Mass orders priest to leave the colony
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17 Jun 1734 French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine
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17 Jun 1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
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17 Jun 1773 Cúcuta, Colombia, is discovered by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
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17 Jun 1775 American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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17 Jun 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
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17 Jun 1789 In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
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17 Jun 1789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
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17 Jun 1795 The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic.
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17 Jun 1815 Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda
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17 Jun 1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
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17 Jun 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 are established as a result.
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17 Jun 1843 The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
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17 Jun 1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
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17 Jun 1855 Heavy French / British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed
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17 Jun 1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
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17 Jun 1861 Battle of Boonville, MI - Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces
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17 Jun 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
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17 Jun 1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs. CSS Atlanta
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17 Jun 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
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17 Jun 1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia
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17 Jun 1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
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17 Jun 1864 640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished
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17 Jun 1864 General John B Hood replaces General Johnston
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17 Jun 1876 Battle of Rosebud / Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
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17 Jun 1876 American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
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17 Jun 1876 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
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17 Jun 1877 American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
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17 Jun 1880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
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17 Jun 1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
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17 Jun 1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
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17 Jun 1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
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17 Jun 1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
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17 Jun 1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
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17 Jun 1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble
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17 Jun 1897 William Frank Powell, New Jersey educator, named Minister to Haiti
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17 Jun 1898 US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
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17 Jun 1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
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17 Jun 1900 Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
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17 Jun 1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
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17 Jun 1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar
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17 Jun 1910 Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
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17 Jun 1911 Belgium government of De Broqueville forms
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17 Jun 1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
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17 Jun 1916 1st national Congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
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17 Jun 1916 US troops under General Pershing march into Mexico
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17 Jun 1917 British King George V takes the name Windsor
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17 Jun 1919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
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17 Jun 1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
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17 Jun 1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
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17 Jun 1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman to fly the Atlantic
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17 Jun 1929 The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
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17 Jun 1930 U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
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17 Jun 1930 Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
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17 Jun 1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
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17 Jun 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.
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17 Jun 1933 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops and 1 gangster killed by mob
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17 Jun 1933 Union Station Massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
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17 Jun 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
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17 Jun 1938 Japan declares war on China
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17 Jun 1939 Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
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17 Jun 1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
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17 Jun 1940 Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
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17 Jun 1940 USSR occupies Estonia
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17 Jun 1940 World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
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17 Jun 1940 World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
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17 Jun 1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
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17 Jun 1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
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17 Jun 1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
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17 Jun 1943 Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs
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17 Jun 1944 Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
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17 Jun 1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark
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17 Jun 1944 Resistance fighter / Poet Col Blake arrives in London
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17 Jun 1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
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17 Jun 1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
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17 Jun 1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
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17 Jun 1946 SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
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17 Jun 1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves, New York City
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17 Jun 1947 Earnest Reuter becomes Mayor of Berlin
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17 Jun 1947 Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline
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17 Jun 1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
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17 Jun 1950 Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria sign security pact
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17 Jun 1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
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17 Jun 1951 "Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances
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17 Jun 1952 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
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17 Jun 1953 Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)
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17 Jun 1953 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
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17 Jun 1953 East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
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17 Jun 1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification
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17 Jun 1953 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius &
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17 Jun 1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co)
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17 Jun 1954 Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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17 Jun 1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
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17 Jun 1957 "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra peaks at #2
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17 Jun 1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
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17 Jun 1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
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17 Jun 1958 The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
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17 Jun 1959 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland
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17 Jun 1960 The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
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17 Jun 1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th home run
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17 Jun 1961 "Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 performances
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17 Jun 1961 61st US Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
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17 Jun 1961 Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt
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17 Jun 1962 62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
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17 Jun 1962 Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers
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17 Jun 1962 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
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17 Jun 1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
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17 Jun 1963 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
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17 Jun 1963 The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
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17 Jun 1963 A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
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17 Jun 1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
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17 Jun 1965 11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)
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17 Jun 1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)
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17 Jun 1965 Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour
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17 Jun 1967 "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5
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17 Jun 1967 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes
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17 Jun 1967 Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers & Athletics)
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17 Jun 1967 The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
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17 Jun 1967 Barbra Striesand: A Happening in Central Park performed
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17 Jun 1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
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17 Jun 1968 Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms
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17 Jun 1968 KQEC TV channel 32 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Jun 1969 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens in NYC (almost entirely in the nude)
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17 Jun 1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
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17 Jun 1971 President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
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17 Jun 1971 C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas
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17 Jun 1972 "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
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17 Jun 1972 Chile President Allende forms new government
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17 Jun 1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
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17 Jun 1972 Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
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17 Jun 1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
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17 Jun 1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
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17 Jun 1973 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa
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17 Jun 1973 73rd US Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
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17 Jun 1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits US
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17 Jun 1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 & #3083
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17 Jun 1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
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17 Jun 1976 Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
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17 Jun 1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into the NBA
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17 Jun 1978 "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32
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17 Jun 1978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
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17 Jun 1979 "Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
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17 Jun 1979 79th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo
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17 Jun 1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
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17 Jun 1980 Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
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17 Jun 1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson
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17 Jun 1981 Battle between Moslems and Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
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17 Jun 1982 President Reagan 1st UN General Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)
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17 Jun 1982 Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)
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17 Jun 1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
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17 Jun 1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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17 Jun 1984 John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as Premier of Canada
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17 Jun 1985 STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
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17 Jun 1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
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17 Jun 1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
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17 Jun 1987 With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
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17 Jun 1988 Soyuz TM-5 launches
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17 Jun 1988 Bruce Springsteen seperates from Juliette Phillips
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17 Jun 1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
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17 Jun 1988 The Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
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17 Jun 1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
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17 Jun 1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
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17 Jun 1990 "Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 62 performances
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17 Jun 1990 90th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 280 at Medinah Country Club - Medinah, Illinois
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17 Jun 1990 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
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17 Jun 1991 President Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
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17 Jun 1991 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
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17 Jun 1991 Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
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17 Jun 1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
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17 Jun 1992 Conn Gov Lowell Weicker and WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
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17 Jun 1992 Philadelphia 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns
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17 Jun 1992 Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42
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17 Jun 1992 A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
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17 Jun 1994 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs. Bolivia in Chicago
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17 Jun 1994 Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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17 Jun 1994 1994 World Cup soccer match begins
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17 Jun 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse New York on WAQX 95.7 FM
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17 Jun 1997 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 and Minneapolis-St Paul and Columbus, Ohio in 2000
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