June 17
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June 17 is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining after June 17 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1239 – King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
- 1631 – Gauhara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1706)
- 1682 – King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
- 1691 – Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
- 1703 – John Wesley, English theologian, founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
- 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, physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
- 1881 – Tommy Burns, boxer (d. 1955)
- 1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
- 1898 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
- 1898 – Harry Patch, British World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 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, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
- 1910 – Red Foley, country musician (d. 1968)
- 1914 – John Hersey, author (d. 1993)
- 1915 – Karl Targownik, psychiatrist (d. 1996)
- 1915 – David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player and actor (d. 1973)
- 1917 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
- 1920 – Francois Jacob, French biologist
- 1923 – Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)
- 1930 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
- 1932 – John Murtha, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1940 – George Akerlof, American economist
- 1942 – Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency Director
- 1943 – Newt Gingrich, American politician
- 1943 – Barry Manilow, American musician
- 1945 – Ken Livingstone, British politician, former Mayor of London
- 1945 – Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
- 1945 – Anupam Kher, Indian actor
- 1945 – Frank Ashmore, American actor
- 1946 – Peter Rosei, writer
- 1948 – Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, Icelandic director
- 1957 – Jon Gries, American actor
- 1958 – Jello Biafra, musician, politician
- 1963 – Greg Kinnear, American actor
- 1964 – Michael Gross, swimmer
- 1966 – Jason Patric, actor
- 1967 – Eric Stefani, American musician (No Doubt)
- 1972 – Sebastian White, English musician (Oasis)
- 1973 – Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
- 1975 – Chloe Jones, actress (d. 2005)
- 1978 – James Corden, English comedian
- 1979 – Nick Rimando, footballer
- 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player
- 1983 – Connie Fisher, British stage actress
- 1983 – Lee Ryan, British singer (Blue)
- 1985 – Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
- 1990 – Jordan Henderson, English footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1565 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1536)
- 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan, inspiration for the Taj Mahal (b. 1593)
- 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)
- 1775 – John Pitcairn, British military officer (b. 1722)
- 1797 – Agha Muhammad Khan, Persian Shah of Qajar dynasty (b. 1742)
- 1898 – Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
- 1939 – Eugen Weidmann, last public guillotine execution in France
- 1940 – Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1956 – Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
- 1957 – Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (b. 1873)
- 1961 – Jeff Chandler, actor (b. 1918)
- 1968 – Jose Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
- 1968 – A. M. Cassandre, Ukrainian-French artist (b. 1901)
- 1979 – Duffy Lewis, Major League Baseball player (b. 1888)
- 1982 – Roberto Calvi, Italian 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 (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Willie Davenport, athlete (b. 1943)
- 2002 – Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
- 2004 – Gerry McNeil, hockey player (b. 1926)
- 2004 – Sara Lidman, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
- 2008 – Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician (b. 1929)
[change] 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 (modern 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 Navy Hospital Corps is established.
- 1911 – The University of Iceland is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
[change] Observances
- Independence Day (Iceland)
- Day of German Unity, observed on June 17 in West Germany until 1990, to commemorate East Germany's Workers' Uprising in 1953
