WillDekkard
04-17-2010, 12:47 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- April 17th
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* 69 After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor.
* 1397 Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.
* 1492 Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
* 1521 Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
* 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
* 1555 After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
* 1797 Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.
* 1861 American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the United States.
* 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
* 1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
* 1895 The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
* 1905 The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
* 1907 The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
* 1924 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed by the merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
* 1941 World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
* 1942 French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Kφnigstein.
* 1945 Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
* 1946 Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation.
* 1949 At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
* 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
* 1964 The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.
* 1964 Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
* 1964 Shea Stadium opens.
* 1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
* 1969 Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
* 1970 Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
* 1971 The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
* 1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic.
* 1973 German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 founded.
* 1975 The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
* 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
* 1984 Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
* 1986 The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
* 2006 Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing eleven people and injuring 70.
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- April 17th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 69 After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor.
* 1397 Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.
* 1492 Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
* 1521 Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
* 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
* 1555 After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
* 1797 Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.
* 1861 American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the United States.
* 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
* 1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
* 1895 The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
* 1905 The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
* 1907 The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
* 1924 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed by the merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
* 1941 World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
* 1942 French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Kφnigstein.
* 1945 Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
* 1946 Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation.
* 1949 At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
* 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
* 1964 The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.
* 1964 Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
* 1964 Shea Stadium opens.
* 1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
* 1969 Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
* 1970 Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
* 1971 The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
* 1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic.
* 1973 German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 founded.
* 1975 The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
* 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
* 1984 Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
* 1986 The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
* 2006 Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing eleven people and injuring 70.
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