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June 17 is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 197 canicule actual until the end of the year.
Events
- 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) banishment him to retreat from Wallachia.
- 1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge – armament beneath King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
- 1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
- 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a acreage he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
- 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will absorb added than 20 years architecture her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
- 1673 – French campaign Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet ability the Mississippi River and become the aboriginal Europeans to accomplish a abundant annual of its course.
- 1773 – Cúcuta (Colombia) is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill
- 1789 – In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
- 1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the abandon to adoration in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are accustomed 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 exhausted aback General George Crook's armament at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
- 1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
- 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- 1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
- 1901 – The College Board introduces its aboriginal connected test, the advertiser to the SAT.
- 1910 – Aurel Vlaicu performed the aboriginal flight of A. Vlaicu nr. 1.
- 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- 1932 – Bonus Army: about a thousand World War I veterans aggregate at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would accord them assertive benefits.
- 1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured avoiding Frank Nash are gunned down by abyss attempting to chargeless Nash.
- 1939 – Endure accessible beheading in France: Eugen Weidmann, a bedevilled murderer, is guillotined in Versailles alfresco the Saint-Pierre prison.
- 1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops alpha to abandon France, afterward Germany's takeover of Paris and a lot of of the nation.
- 1940 – World War II: biconcave of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe abreast Saint-Nazaire, France.
- 1940 – World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars advance and yield Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
- 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania abatement beneath the occupation of the Soviet Union.
- 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
- 1948 – A Douglas DC-6 accustomed United Airlines Flight 624 crashes abreast Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 humans on board.
- 1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a analysis of troops into East Berlin to annihilate a rebellion.
- 1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the action of getting congenital to affix Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing abounding of the ironworkers and abasing others.
- 1958 – The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opens. It is still accessible today.
- 1960 – The Nez Perce association is awarded $4 amateur for 7 amateur acreage of acreage undervalued (4 cents/acre) in the 1863 treaty.
- 1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the alliance of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
- 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington Academy District v. Schempp adjoin acceptance the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
- 1963 – A day afterwards South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem appear the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a anarchism involving about 2,000 humans break out, killing one.
- 1971 – President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
- 1972 – Watergate scandal: 5 White House agents are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attack by some associates of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
- 1987 – With the afterlife of the endure individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
- 1991 – Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which appropriate ancestral allocation of all South Africans at birth.
- 1992 – A 'joint understanding' acceding on accoutrements abridgement is active by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be after codification in START II).
- 1994 – Afterward a televised low-speed artery hunt , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her acquaintance Ronald Goldman.
Births
- 1239 – King Edward I of England (Edward Longshanks) (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 artisan (d. 1765)
- 1693 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
- 1704 – John Kay, English artisan (d. 1780)
- 1714 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
- 1714 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784)
- 1718 – George Howard, British acreage align (d. 1796)
- 1742 – William Hooper, American attestant of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
- 1808 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet, author and linguist (d. 1845)
- 1810 – Ferdinand Freiligrath, German biographer (d. 1876)
- 1811 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic ability fighter (d. 1879)
- 1818 – Charles Gounod, French artisan (d. 1893)
- 1818 – Sophie of Württemberg, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1877)
- 1832 – Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
- 1839 – Arthur Tooth, English Anglican abbey (d. 1931)
- 1858 – Ebenezer Sumner Draper, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)
- 1861 – Pete Browning, American baseball amateur (d. 1905)
- 1861 – Omar Bundy, American Army accepted (d. 1940)
- 1863 – Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, Russian-born arch of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934)
- 1867 – Flora Finch, British-American silent-film comedienne (d. 1940)
- 1867 – John Robert Gregg, American artisan (d. 1948)
- 1867 – Henry Lawson, Australian artisan (d. 1922)
- 1880 – Carl Van Vechten, American biographer and columnist (d. 1964)
- 1881 – Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)
- 1882 – Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1918)
- 1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian artisan (d. 1971)
- 1888 – Heinz Guderian, German accepted (d. 1954)
- 1898 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artisan (d. 1972)
- 1898 – Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
- 1898 – Harry Patch, British supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1900 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
- 1902 – Sammy Fain, American accepted music artisan (d. 1989)
- 1902 – Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
- 1903 – Ruth Wakefield, American baker and freeholder (d. 1977)
- 1904 – Ralph Bellamy, American amateur (d. 1991)
- 1907 – Maurice Cloche, French blur administrator and biographer (d. 1990)
- 1907 – Charles Eames, American artisan and artisan (d. 1978)
- 1909 – Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
- 1909 – Ralph E. Winters, Canadian blur editor (d. 2004)
- 1910 – Red Foley, American artisan (d. 1968)
- 1910 – George Hees, Canadian baby-kisser (d. 1996)
- 1914 – John Hersey, American biographer and announcer (d. 1993)
- 1915 – David "Stringbean" Akeman, American amateur and country music banjo amateur (d. 1973)
- 1915 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian analyst (d. 1996)
- 1916 – Terry Gilkyson, American singer, artisan and artisan (d. 1999)
- 1918 – Ajahn Chah, Thai brainwork adept (d. 1992)
- 1919 – Beryl Reid, British Extra (d. 1996)
- 1920 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American baby-kisser (d. 1981)
- 1920 – François Jacob, French biologist, Nobel laureate
- 1923 – Elroy Hirsch, American football amateur (d. 2004)
- 1927 – Martin Böttcher, German conductor
- 1929 – Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess amateur (d. 1984)
- 1930 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
- 1931 – John Baldessari, American conceptual artist
- 1932 – Peter Lupus, American actor
- 1932 – John Murtha, American baby-kisser (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Harry Browne, American biographer and investment analyst (d. 2006)
- 1933 – Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
- 1933 – Maurice Stokes, American basketball amateur (d. 1970)
- 1936 – Ken Loach, British blur director
- 1936 – Vern Harper, Canadian Aboriginal Nations Cree Elder and adept of the Korean War
- 1940 – George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1942 – Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian IAEA director, almsman of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1943 – Newt Gingrich, American politician
- 1943 – Barry Manilow, American musician
- 1943 – Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer
- 1944 – Randy Johnson, American football amateur (d. 2009)
- 1945 – Frank Ashmore, American actor
- 1945 – Art Bell, American radio anchorperson and author
- 1945 – Tommy Franks, American General
- 1945 – Ken Livingstone, English politician
- 1945 – Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
- 1946 – Peter Rosei, Austrian writer
- 1947 – Christopher Allport, American amateur (d. 2008)
- 1947 – George S. Clinton, American artisan and musician
- 1947 – Paul Young, English accompanist and percussionist (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics) (d. 2000)
- 1947 – Linda Chavez, American author
- 1948 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1948 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball amateur (d. 1992)
- 1949 – Snakefinger, British-born guitarist, violinist, accompanist and songwriter (The Residents) (d. 1987)
- 1950 – Lee Tamahori, New Zealand blur director
- 1951 – Joe Piscopo, American actor
- 1952 – Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, drillmaster and executive
- 1954 – Len Davies, British pro angry promoter
- 1955 – Gail Jones, Australian author
- 1956 – Chi-chi Nwanoku, English bifold bassist
- 1957 – Phil Chevron, Irish guitarist, accompanist and songwriter (The Pogues, The Radiators From Space)
- 1957 – Martin Dillon, American opera accompanist (d. 2005)
- 1957 – Jon Gries, American actor
- 1957 – Jack Wouterse, Dutch actor
- 1958 – Jello Biafra, American accompanist (Dead Kennedys) and activist
- 1958 – Bobby Farrelly, American blur director
- 1958 – Sam Hamad, Syrian-born Canadian politician
- 1958 – Jon Leibowitz, American government official
- 1958 – Daniel McVicar, American actor
- 1958 – Derek Lee Ragin, American countertenor
- 1960 – Adrián Campos, Spanish antagonism driver
- 1960 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor
- 1961 – Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese seiyū, amateur and tarento
- 1962 – Michael Monroe, Finnish accompanist (Hanoi Rocks)
- 1963 – Greg Kinnear, American actor
- 1964 – Rinaldo Capello, Italian antagonism driver
- 1964 – Michael Gross, German swimmer
- 1964 – Erin Murphy, American actress
- 1965 – Dermontti Dawson, American football player
- 1965 – Dan Jansen, American acceleration skater
- 1965 – Dara O'Kearney, Irish ultra agent and able poker player
- 1966 – Jason Patric, American actor
- 1967 – Eric Stefani, American keyboardist, songwriter (No Doubt) and animation animator
- 1967 – Dorothea Röschmann, German operatic soprano
- 1968 – Julie Miller, Hawaiian triathlete
- 1968 – Minoru Suzuki, Japanese able wrestler and alloyed aggressive artist
- 1969 – Paul Tergat, Kenyan continued ambit runner
- 1970 – Stéphane Fiset, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 – Will Forte, American writer, amateur and comedian
- 1970 – Jason Hanson, American football player
- 1970 – Popeye Jones, American basketball player
- 1970 – Michael Showalter, American comedian
- 1970 – Sasha Sokol, Mexican accompanist and actress
- 1971 – Mildred Fox, Irish politician
- 1971 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
- 1972 – Sebastian White, English bagman (Oasis)
- 1973 – Krayzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
- 1973 – Louis Leterrier, French blur director
- 1973 – Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
- 1973 – Christian Claudio, Puerto Rican business consultant
- 1974 – Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
- 1975 – Jennifer Irwin, Canadian actress
- 1975 – Chloe Jones, American pornographic extra (d. 2005)
- 1975 – Joshua Leonard, American actor
- 1976 – Sven Nys, Belgian cyclo-cross rider
- 1976 – Scott Adkins, English actor
- 1977 – Roger Manganelli, American bassist (Less Than Jake)
- 1977 – Mark Tauscher, American football player
- 1977 – Branko Tomovic, Serbian actor
- 1978 – Kumiko Aso, Japanese actress
- 1978 – Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer
- 1978 – James Corden, English amateur and comedian
- 1979 – Nick Rimando, American footballer
- 1979 – Andrew Rutherford, Canadian radio personality
- 1980 – Kimeru, Japanese singer
- 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player
- 1980 – Jeph Jacques, American webcomic writer
- 1981 – Kyle Boller, American football player
- 1981 – Shane Watson, Australian cricketer
- 1982 – Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Connie Fisher, English date actress
- 1983 – Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese accompanist and actor
- 1983 – Lee Ryan, British accompanist (Blue)
- 1984 – John Gallagher, Jr., American actor
- 1985 – Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
- 1985 – Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 – Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
- 1988 – Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
- 1989 – Giorgos Tofas, Cypriot footballer
Deaths
- 900 – Fulk the Venerable, Archbishop of Rheims (birth year unknown)
- 1025 – King Bolesław I the Brave of Poland (b. 967)
- 1091 – Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)
- 1463 – Princess Catherine of Portugal (b. 1436)
- 1565 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
- 1694 – Philip Howard, English Catholic Basal (b. 1629)
- 1696 – King John III Sobieski of Poland (b. 1629)
- 1719 – Joseph Addison, English baby-kisser and biographer (b. 1672)
- 1734 – Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Align of France (b. 1653)
- 1740 – Sir William Wyndham, English baby-kisser (b. 1687)
- 1762 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French biographer (b. 1674)
- 1771 – Daskalogiannis, Cretan insubordinate (birth year unknown)
- 1775 – John Pitcairn, British aggressive officier (b. 1722)
- 1797 – Shah Agha Muhammad Khan of Persia (b. 1742)
- 1813 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and baby-kisser (b. 1726)
- 1821 – Martín Miguel de Güemes, Argentine aggressive baton (b. 1785)
- 1858 – Queen Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi (b. 1828)
- 1898 – Edward Burne-Jones, English artisan (b. 1833)
- 1904 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Russian baby-kisser (b. 1839)
- 1939 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball amateur (b. 1893)
- 1940 – Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
- 1941 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch artisan and organist (b. 1862)
- 1942 – Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian baby-kisser (b. 1853)
- 1952 – Jack Parsons, American rocket propulsion researcher (b. 1914)
- 1956 – Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
- 1956 – Bob Sweikert, American antagonism disciplinarian (b. 1926)
- 1957 – Dorothy Richardson, English biographer (b. 1873)
- 1961 – Jeff Chandler, American amateur (b. 1918)
- 1963 – Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian baby-kisser and nationalist (b. 1882)
- 1968 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
- 1974 – Pamela Britton, American extra (b. 1923)
- 1979 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball amateur (b. 1888)
- 1981 – Richard O'Connor, British accepted (b. 1889)
- 1981 – Zerna Sharp, American biographer and drillmaster (b. 1889)
- 1982 – Roberto Calvi, Italian broker (b. 1920)
- 1983 – Peter Mennin, American artisan and abecedary (b. 1923)
- 1984 – John Murray, American author (b. 1906)
- 1984 – Milbourne Christopher, American archimage (b. 1914)
- 1985 – John Boulting, English filmmaker (b. 1913)
- 1986 – Kate Smith, American accompanist (b. 1907)
- 1987 – Dick Howser, American baseball amateur and administrator (b. 1936)
- 1996 – Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
- 1999 – Basil Hume, English Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster (b. 1923)
- 2000 – Ismail Mahomed, South African advocate (b. 1931)
- 2001 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
- 2001 – Thomas Joseph Winning, Scottish Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Glasgow (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Willie Davenport, American amateur (b. 1943)
- 2002 – Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
- 2004 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey amateur (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)
- 2005 – Sam Loeb, American banana book biographer (b. 1988)
- 2006 – Bussunda, Brazilian amateur (b. 1962)
- 2006 – Arthur Franz, American amateur (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian appearance artisan (b. 1944)
- 2007 – Serena Wilson, American abdomen ballerina (b. 1933)
- 2008 – Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese consecutive analgesic (b. 1962)
- 2008 – Cyd Charisse, American ballerina and extra (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Darrell Powers, American World War II amount (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and baby-kisser (b. 1929)
- 2010 – K. S. Rajah, Singaporean advocate (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
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