~ Did You mean . . . June 17? Find an article a definition What is the meaning of June 17?
Did you mean | Travel | Economics | Finance | Marketing | Business | Culture | Geography | History | Life | Mathematics | Science | Society | Technology | New site added |
June 17 Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years ), with 197 days remaining.
Events
1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof .1565 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru .1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion California ) for England .1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth . Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I , then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb , the Taj Mahal .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.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 is later established as a result.1863 - Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War 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 .1898 - The US 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.
1933 - Union Station Massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri , four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.1939 - Last public execution in France. Eugene Weidmann , a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.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.1953 - Workers Uprising : In East Germany , the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion .1960 - Ted Williams becomes the fourth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio .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 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 .1972 - Watergate scandal : Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee , in an attempt by some members of 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 ).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 )1603 - Joseph of Cupertino , Italian saint (d. 1663 )1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718 )1691 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini , Italian painter and architect (d. 1765 )1693 - Johann Georg Walch , German theologian (d. 1775 )1703 - John Wesley , English founder of Methodism (d. 1791 )1704 - John Kay , English inventor (d. 1780 )1808 - Henrik Wergeland , Norwegian author (d. 1845 )1810 - Ferdinand Freiligrath , German writer (d. 1876 )1811 - Jón Sigurðsson , Icelandic independence fighter (d. 1879 )1818 - Charles Gounod , French composer (d. 1893 )1832 - Sir William Crookes , English physicist and chemist (d. 1919 )1881 - Tommy Burns , Canadian boxer (d. 1955 )1882 - Igor Stravinsky , Russian composer (d. 1971 )1888 - Heinz Guderian , German General (d. 1954 )1898 - M. C. Escher , Dutch artist (d. 1972 )1898 - Carl Hermann , German physicist (d. 1961 )1900 - Martin Bormann , Nazi official (d. 1945 )1904 - Ralph Bellamy , American actor (d. 1991 )1907 - Charles Eames , American designer and architect (d. 1978 )1909 - Elmer Lee Andersen , Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004 )1910 - Red Foley , American musician (d. 1968 )1914 - John Hersey , American author (d. 1993 )1915 - Karl Targownik , Hungarian psychiatrist (d. 1996 )1915 - David "Stringbean" Akeman , American banjo player and actor (d. 1973 )
1917 - Dean Martin , American singer (d. 1995 )1917 - Atle Selberg , Norwegian mathematician
1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch , American football player (d. 2004 )1929 - Tigran Petrosian , Georgian chess player (d. 1984 )1930 - Brian Statham , English cricketer (d. 2000 )1940 - George Akerlof , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate1942 - Mohamed ElBaradei , Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1943 - Newt Gingrich , American politician1943 - Barry Manilow , American musician
1945 - Tommy Franks , American General1945 - Ken Livingstone , Mayor of London
1945 - Eddy Merckx , Belgian cyclist
1945 - Anupam Kher , Indian actor
1945 - Frank Ashmore , American actor1946 - Peter Rosei , Austrian writer1957 - Jon Gries , American actor1958 - Jello Biafra , American musician and activist1960 - Michael Monroe , Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks )1963 - Greg Kinnear , American actor1964 - Michale Gross , German swimmer1965 - Dermontti Dawson , American NFL, center1966 - Jason Patric , American actor1975 - Chloe Jones , American actor (d. 2005 )1979 - Nick Rimando , American soccer player1980 - Venus Williams , American tennis player1983 - Mohammad Razzazan, Iranian1987 - Nozomi Tsuji - Japanese singer (W (Double You) , Morning Musume , MiniMoni )
Deaths
1463 - Princess Catherine of Portugal , writer (b. 1436 )1565 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru , Japanese shogun (b. 1536 )1694 - Philip Cardinal Howard , English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629 )1696 - John III Sobieski , King of Poland (b. 1629 )1719 - Joseph Addison , English politician and writer (b. 1672 )1734 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars , Marshal of France (b. 1653 )1740 - William Wyndham , English politician (b. 1687 )1762 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon , French writer (b. 1674 )1797 - Agha Muhammad Khan , Shah of Persia(b. 1742 )1898 - Edward Burne-Jones , English artist (b. 1833 )1940 - Arthur Harden , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865 )1952 - Jack Parsons , American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914 )1956 - Paul Rostock , German doctor (b. 1892 )1957 - Dorothy Richardson , English writer (b. 1873 )1961 - Jeff Chandler , American actor (b. 1918 )1979 - Duffy Lewis , baseball player (b. 1888 )1982 - Roberto Calvi , Italin banker (b. 1920 )1986 - Kate Smith , American singer (b. 1907 )1996 - Thomas Kuhn , American philosopher of science (b. 1922 )2001 - Donald J. Cram , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919 )2002 - Willie Davenport , American athlete (b. 1943 )2002 - Fritz Walter , German footballer (b. 1920 )
2004 - Gerry McNeil , Canadian hockey player (b. 1926 )
Holidays and observances
Headline text
External links
June 16 - June 18 - May 17 - July 17 -- listing of all days
What does June 17 mean ? Search with Google !
Article on June 17, category, different spelling or sense