WillDekkard
06-17-2010, 03:49 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 17th
* 1462 Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
* 1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
* 1565 Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yo****eru.
* 1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
* 1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
* 1773 Cϊcuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuιllar.
* 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 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's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
* 1877 Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon the Nez Perce defeat the US 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 first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
* 1910 Aurel Vlaicu performed the first flight of A. Vlaicu nr. 1.
* 1930 U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
* 1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
* 1933 Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
* 1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
* 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 World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
* 1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
* 1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
* 1948 A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines 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.
* 1958 The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing being built connecting Vancouver and North Vancouver, Canada, collapses into the Burrard Inlet, killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
* 1958 The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opens. It is still open today.
* 1960 The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres of land undervalued (4 cents/acre) in the 1863 treaty.
* 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 rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
* 1963 A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2000 people breaks out, killing one.
* 1972 Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
* 1987 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
* 1991 Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required 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 low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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- June 17th
* 1462 Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
* 1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
* 1565 Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yo****eru.
* 1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
* 1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
* 1773 Cϊcuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuιllar.
* 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 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's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
* 1877 Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon the Nez Perce defeat the US 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 first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
* 1910 Aurel Vlaicu performed the first flight of A. Vlaicu nr. 1.
* 1930 U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
* 1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
* 1933 Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
* 1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
* 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 World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
* 1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
* 1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
* 1948 A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines 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.
* 1958 The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing being built connecting Vancouver and North Vancouver, Canada, collapses into the Burrard Inlet, killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
* 1958 The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opens. It is still open today.
* 1960 The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres of land undervalued (4 cents/acre) in the 1863 treaty.
* 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 rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
* 1963 A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2000 people breaks out, killing one.
* 1972 Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
* 1987 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
* 1991 Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required 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 low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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