June 17

June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge
• 1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims California for England
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Bunker Hill is fought
• 1776 - American invasion of Quebec ends
• 1856 - The United States Republican Party holds its first political convention, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (they will eventually nominate John C. Fremont as their first Presidential candidate)
• 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor
• 1903 - Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage
• 1930 - President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law
• 1944 - Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms republic.
• 1953 - Workers Uprising in East Germany
• 1961 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
• 1967 - China tests its first hydrogen bomb
• 1972 - Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee
• 1982 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London
• 1994 - O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife and a friend of hers

• 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)
• 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
• 1910 - Red Foley, country musician (d. 1968)
• 1914 - John Hersey, author (d. 1993)
• 1917 - Lena Horne, singer
• 1917 - Dean Martin, singer (d. 1995)
• 1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football star
• 1943 - Newt Gingrich, American politician
• 1945 - Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
• 1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgian cycling champion
• 1945 - Anupam Kher, actor, India
• 1946 - Barry Manilow, musician
• 1946 - Peter Rosei, writer
• 1958 - Jello Biafra, musician, politician
• 1964 - Michael Gross, swimmer
• 1966 - Jason Patric, actor
• 1980 - Venus Williams, tennis player

• 1696 - John III Sobieski, king of Poland (b. 1629)
• 1898 - Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
• 1939 - Eugen Weidmann, last public guillotine execution in France
• 1961 - Jeff Chandler, actor
• 1982 - Roberto Calvi, banker
• 1986 - Kate Smith, singer
• 1996 - Thomas Kuhn, philosopher
• 2002 - Fritz Walter, football player
• 2002 - Willie Davenport, athlete

• 1944 - Icelandic Independence Day, from Denmark

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