WillDekkard
05-17-2010, 05:17 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 17th
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* 1521 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
* 1536 George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
* 1590 Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
* 1642 Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (16121676) founds the Ville Marie de Montrιal.
* 1673 Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
* 1775 American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
* 1792 The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
* 1805 Muhammad Ali became Wāli of Egypt.
* 1809 Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
* 1814 Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
* 1814 The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
* 1849 A fire threatens to burn St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
* 1860 German football club TSV 1860 Mόnchen is founded
* 1863 Rosalνa de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
* 1865 The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established.
* 1873 El Paso, Texas is established by charter from the Texas Legislature.
* 1875 Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
* 1877 The Victorian Football League of Australia is founded
* 1895 The first Omonoia station of the Athens metro is inaugurated in Greece.
* 1900 Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
* 1902 Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
* 1914 The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
* 1915 The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
* 1919 War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
* 1927 U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
* 1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling the national-socialist party of Norway.
* 1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the first-ever televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
* 1940 World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
* 1940 World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
* 1943 The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
* 1943 World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
* 1954 The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
* 1963 Bruno Sammartino defeats Nature Boy Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds in Madison Square Garden for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship. It begins the longest heavyweight championship reign in professional wrestling history.
* 1967 Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
* 1969 Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
* 1970 Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
* 1973 Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
* 1974 Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
* 1974 Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
* 1980 General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
* 1980 On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
* 1983 U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
* 1983 Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
* 1984 Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
* 1987 An Iraqi fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. warship USS Stark (FFG-31), killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
* 1992 Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begins in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that resulted in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.
* 1994 Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
* 1995 After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
* 1997 Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic Of Congo
* 2004 Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
* 2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef
* 2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
* 2009 Dalia Grybauskaitė is elected the first female President of Lithuania.
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- May 17th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1521 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
* 1536 George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
* 1590 Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
* 1642 Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (16121676) founds the Ville Marie de Montrιal.
* 1673 Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
* 1775 American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
* 1792 The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
* 1805 Muhammad Ali became Wāli of Egypt.
* 1809 Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
* 1814 Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
* 1814 The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
* 1849 A fire threatens to burn St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
* 1860 German football club TSV 1860 Mόnchen is founded
* 1863 Rosalνa de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
* 1865 The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established.
* 1873 El Paso, Texas is established by charter from the Texas Legislature.
* 1875 Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
* 1877 The Victorian Football League of Australia is founded
* 1895 The first Omonoia station of the Athens metro is inaugurated in Greece.
* 1900 Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
* 1902 Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
* 1914 The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
* 1915 The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
* 1919 War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
* 1927 U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
* 1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling the national-socialist party of Norway.
* 1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the first-ever televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
* 1940 World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
* 1940 World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
* 1943 The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
* 1943 World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
* 1954 The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
* 1963 Bruno Sammartino defeats Nature Boy Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds in Madison Square Garden for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship. It begins the longest heavyweight championship reign in professional wrestling history.
* 1967 Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
* 1969 Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
* 1970 Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
* 1973 Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
* 1974 Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
* 1974 Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
* 1980 General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
* 1980 On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
* 1983 U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
* 1983 Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
* 1984 Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
* 1987 An Iraqi fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. warship USS Stark (FFG-31), killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
* 1992 Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begins in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that resulted in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.
* 1994 Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
* 1995 After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
* 1997 Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic Of Congo
* 2004 Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
* 2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef
* 2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
* 2009 Dalia Grybauskaitė is elected the first female President of Lithuania.
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