June 17
June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the 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 (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.
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.
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 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 .
1995 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the third annual of their live concert Weenie Roast with Better Than Ezra , Bush , Elastica , Hole , Rage Against the Machine , The Ramones , Rancid , Soul Asylum , Sponge , Sublime , Matthew Sweet , Throwing Muses and White Zombie .
2000 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the third annual of their live concert Weenie Roast with Creed , Cypress Hill , Everclear , Godsmack , Incubus , Korn , Limp Bizkit , Lit , Moby , No Doubt , The Offspring , Ozzy Osbourne , Stone Temple Pilots and Third Eye Blind .
Births
1239 - King Edward I of England (d. 1307 )
1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718 )
1703 - John Wesley , theologian, founder of Methodists (d. 1791 )
1808 - Henrik Wergeland , Norwegian author
1810 - Ferdinand Freiligrath (d. 1876 )
1818 - Charles Gounod , composer (d. 1893 )
1832 - Sir William Crookes , physicist, chemist (d. 1919 )
1881 - Tommy Burns , World Heavyweight Boxing Champion (d. 1955 )
1882 - Igor Stravinsky , composer (d. 1971 )
1898 - M. C. Escher , artist (d. 1972 )
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 , American politician and governor of Minnesota (d. 2004 ).
1910 - Red Foley , country musician (d. 1968 )
1914 - John Hersey , author (d. 1993 )
1915 - Karl Targownik , psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. 1996 )
1917 - Lena Horne , singer
1917 - Dean Martin , singer (d. 1995 )
1917 - Atle Selberg , Norwegian mathematician
1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch , American football star
1929 - Tigran Petrosian , World chess champion (d. 1984 ).
1930 - Brian Statham , Lancashire and England fast bowler (d. 2000 ).
1943 - Newt Gingrich , American politician
1943 - Barry Manilow , musician
1945 - Ken Livingstone , Mayor of London
1945 - Eddy Merckx , Belgian cycling champion
1945 - Anupam Kher , actor, India
1946 - Peter Rosei , writer
1958 - Jello Biafra , musician, politician
1963 - Greg Kinnear , actor
1964 - Michael Gross , swimmer
1966 - Jason Patric , actor
1975 - Chloe Jones , pornographic actress
1979 - Nick Rimando , D.C. United goalkeeper
1980 - Venus Williams , tennis player
Deaths
1565 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru , Ashikaga shogun (b. 1536 )
1696 - John III Sobieski , king of Poland (b. 1629 )
1719 - Joseph Addison , English politician and writer (b. 1672 )
1898 - Edward Burne-Jones , English artist (b. 1833 )
1939 - Eugen Weidmann , last public guillotine execution in France
1956 - Paul Rostock , German doctor during World War II (b. 1892 )
1957 - Dorothy Richardson , English feminist writer (b. 1873 )
1961 - Jeff Chandler , actor (b. 1918 )
1979 - Duffy Lewis , Major League Baseball player (b. 1888 )
1982 - Roberto Calvi , banker
1986 - Kate Smith , singer
1996 - Thomas Kuhn , philosopher
2002 - Willie Davenport , athlete
2002 - Fritz Walter , football player
2004 - Gerry McNeil , Stanley Cup -winning NHL goalie (b. 1926 )
2004 - Sara Lidman , Swedish writer (b. 1923 )
Holidays and observances
External links
June 16 - June 18 - May 17 - July 17 -- listing of all days
