Today in History
June 17
Stephen Decatur
Charles Goodyear
Joseph Lister
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| 656 Caliph Uthman, the third caliph to rule after the death of the Prophet, was assassinated at his home in Medina (now Saudi Arabia) by besieging Muslim rebels from Mesopotamia. |
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| 1091 Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland | ||
| 1119 Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders | ||
| 1239 Edward I, King of England, was born. He was king from 1272 on the death of his father Henry III. His rule was notable for its efficiency in administration. | ||
| 1291 Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, & destroyed | ||
| 1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway | ||
| 1535 English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights | ||
| 1579 Anti-English uprising in Ireland | ||
| 1579 Francis Drake entered SF Bay | ||
| 1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of Calif | ||
| 1580 Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels | ||
| 1583 Brabant: duke of Parma beats French mercenaries | ||
| 1609 Netherlands, England & France sign 12 year Covenant | ||
| 1665 Battle at Viciosa: English & Portuguese army beat Spain | Stephen Decatur |
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| 1700 Mass orders priest to leave the colony | ||
| 1734 French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine | ||
| 1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French | ||
| 1775 In the American War of Independence, British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill, which took place at Breed's Hill near Boston. | ||
| 1789 In France, the Third Estate proclaimed itself a National Assembly and refused to let the king keep his veto. | ||
| 1815 Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda | ||
| 1824 Bureau of Indian Affairs established | ||
| 1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent | ||
| 1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die) | ||
| 1855 Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed | ||
| 1861 Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Confederate forces | ||
| 1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta | ||
| 1867 Joseph Lister performed the first surgical operation under antiseptic conditions on his sister Isabella, at Glasgow's Royal Infirmary in Scotland. | ||
| 1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa | ||
| 1882 Igor Stravinsky, composer, born in Russia. He was one of the 20th century's leading musical figures and most famous for his ballets "The Rite of Spring" and "Petrushka." |
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| 1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' | ||
| 1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble | ||
| 1898 US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii | ||
| 1911 Belgium govt of De Broqueville forms | ||
| 1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia | ||
| 1916 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java | ||
| 1916 US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico | ||
| 1917 British king George V takes the name Windsor | ||
| 1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law | ||
| 1925 29 countries signed the Geneva Protocol which prohibited the use of poisonous gases in war. | ||
| 1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada | Charles Goodyear |
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| 1938 Japan declares war on China | ||
| 1940 Marshal Philippe Petain announced that France had asked for armistice terms from Germany. | ||
| 1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London | ||
| 1940 Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland | ||
| 1940 USSR occupies Estonia | ||
| 1940 The troop ship Lancastria was sunk by enemy fire after having taken on board British troops who were evacuating from France. Of the 5,300 on board, almost 2,480 were saved. | ||
| 1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) | ||
| 1944 Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons | ||
| 1944 Iceland became an independent republic following a referendum on disengaging from Denmark's rule. | ||
| 1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland | ||
| 1944 Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London | ||
| 1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day) | ||
| 1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC | ||
| 1947 Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin | ||
| 1950 Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact |
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| 1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification | ||
| 1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co) | ||
| 1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends | ||
| 1956 Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister | ||
| 1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy | ||
| 1959 Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland | ||
| 1961 Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt | ||
| 1967 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes | ||
| 1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power | ||
| 1968 Belgium govt of Eyskens-Merlot forms | Joseph Lister |
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| 1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera | ||
| 1971 America and Japan signed an agreement for the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972. | ||
| 1972 Chile president Allende forms new government | ||
| 1972 In the United States, five men were arrested for attempting to place bugging equipment at the Democratic Party National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington. This led to President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974. | ||
| 1974 An Irish republican guerrilla bomb exploded at Westminster Hall, in the British Houses of Parliament injuring 11. | ||
| 1976 Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor | ||
| 1981 Battle between Moslems & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed | ||
| 1982 Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech) | ||
| 1982 In Argentina, Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri resigned as president following the country's defeat in the Falklands War. | ||
| 1984 John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada | ||
| 1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched | ||
| 1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0 | ||
| 1988 Soyuz TM-5 launches | ||
| 1991 South Africa's white-dominated parliament voted to end race classification, the legal foundation of apartheid since 1950. | ||
| 1992 Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, S Africa, kills 42 | ||
| 1994 U.S. football star O.J. Simpson, accused of killing his ex-wife and a male friend, was arrested after a dramatic motorway chase and a 90-minute standoff in the driveway of his estate. | ||
| 1997 South African white supremacist Eugene Terre Blanche was sentenced to six years in jail for trying to murder one black man and assaulting another. | ||
| 1997 Sierra Leone's military leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, was sworn in as head of state and pledged to restore peace to the war-weary West African nation. |
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