Notable Historical Events on May 17th
May 17th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
218 |
7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
352 |
Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I |
884 |
St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1521 |
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. |
1525 |
Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels |
1527 |
Pánfilo de Narváez departs to Spain explore Florida with 600 men - by 1536 only 4 survive |
1536 |
Anne Boleyn's 4 "lovers" executed |
1544 |
Scot Earl Matthew Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII |
1579 |
Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian |
1590 |
Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland. |
1620 |
1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey) |
1630 |
Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface |
1631 |
Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg |
1648 |
Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria |
1672 |
Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada) |
1673 |
Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi |
1712 |
Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands" |
1733 |
England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions |
1742 |
Battle of Chotusitz: Frederick II and Prussia defeat the Austrians |
1744 |
French army takes Austrian Netherlands |
1750 |
-18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem |
1756 |
Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War) |
1775 |
American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada. |
1787 |
English slave ship Sisters, en route from Africa to Cuba, capsizes killing hundreds |
1792 |
24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street |
1794 |
Hard frost in southern New England |
1803 |
John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine |
1804 |
Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase |
1809 |
Papal States annexed by France |
1814 |
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day) |
1814 |
Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll |
1814 |
Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian. |
1845 |
Rubber band patents |
1848 |
Gerrit, Count Schimmelpenninck resigns as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Netherlands |
1849 |
Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri |
1853 |
Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election |
1859 |
Australian Rules Football first 'laws of the game' published |
1860 |
German football club TSV 1860 München is founded |
1862 |
Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities |
1863 |
Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS |
1863 |
Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language. |
1864 |
Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat |
1865 |
The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established. |
1871 |
Indian fighter General William T. Sherman escapes Comanches in an ambulance |
1872 |
Bohemian Club incorporated in San Francisco |
1875 |
1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75 |
1876 |
7th US Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer leaves Ft Lincoln |
1877 |
Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm |
1881 |
7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40 |
1881 |
Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC |
1881 |
Revised version of New Testament |
1883 |
Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha |
1884 |
Alaska becomes a US territory |
1890 |
Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel" premieres in NYC |
1890 |
Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London |
1890 |
Pietro Mascagni's opera "Rustic Chivalry" premieres in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi |
1894 |
19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49.25 |
1895 |
W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol |
1897 |
The first successful submarine that can run submerged for any considerable distance and combines electric and gasoline engines is launched in the USA by its designer John Philip Holland |
1898 |
Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503] |
1899 |
Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid, London, England |
1900 |
British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) |
1900 |
In China, three villages within 100 miles of Peking are burned by Boxers and 60 Chinese Christians killed. |
1902 |
Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer. |
1903 |
Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio |
1904 |
Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade" premieres in Paris |
1905 |
Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball |
1906 |
Switzerland's Simplon Tunnel open to rail traffic |
1909 |
White firemen on Georgia lroad strike to protest against hiring blacks |
1910 |
Canada sets the designs for the 1-50 cent coins |
1911 |
36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51 |
1915 |
40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58 |
1915 |
Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever |
1915 |
Last liberal British government of Asquith falls |
1915 |
National Baptist Convention chartered |
1916 |
British Summer Time (Daylight Savings) introduced |
1919 |
War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes. |
1920 |
1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol |
1920 |
1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij) |
1921 |
Belgian and Luxembourg sign customs union |
1921 |
US President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show |
1923 |
Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC) |
1924 |
50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2 |
1925 |
Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit |
1926 |
Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme warlord in Canton |
1926 |
German government of Marx takes power |
1927 |
Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings |
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 |
1928 |
9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam |
1930 |
56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6 |
1932 |
US Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico" |
1933 |
Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway. |
1937 |
Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier |
1938 |
US Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy |
1938 |
Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network |
1939 |
1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball |
1940 |
Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France |
1940 |
Nazis bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance |
1941 |
Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack |
1942 |
Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler |
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. |
1944 |
-18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java |
1944 |
Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma |
1944 |
General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th |
1944 |
Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea |
1945 |
2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu |
1946 |
KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections |
1946 |
US President Harry Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike |
1947 |
"Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances |
1948 |
Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi |
1948 |
Soviet Union recognized Israel |
1949 |
British government recognises Republic of Ireland (previously Irish Free State) |
1952 |
78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4 |
1953 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open |
1953 |
Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game |
1954 |
Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision |
1955 |
Dutch government of Drees resigns |
1957 |
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) |
1957 |
School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education |
1958 |
84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2 |
1958 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria |
1959 |
Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122 |
1960 |
1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA |
1961 |
Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers |
1962 |
Marin County withdraws from BART district |
1963 |
Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ |
1963 |
Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1 |
1963 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1964 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
1964 |
Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s |
1966 |
KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back" |
1967 |
The Butler Act, a Tennessee statue prohibiting the teaching of evolution, is repealed after 42 years |
1968 |
European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite |
1968 |
Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game |
1968 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1969 |
"My Wife, My Dog, My Cat" by Maskman & The Agents hits #92 |
1969 |
95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6 |
1969 |
Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL |
1969 |
Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus |
1970 |
Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits |
1970 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament |
1971 |
Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell" premieres off-Broadway |
1971 |
Washington State bans sex discrimination |
1972 |
Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors |
1972 |
Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London |
1972 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) fires on workers leaving the Mackies engineering works in west Belfast (Although the factory was sited in a Catholic area it had an almost entirely Protestant workforce) |
1973 |
"Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances |
1973 |
Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run |
1973 |
Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings |
1973 |
Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" |
1973 |
US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado |
1973 |
Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's |
1973 |
Five British Army soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby-trap bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone |
1974 |
Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels |
1974 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet |
1974 |
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)explode four bombs in the Republic of Ireland, killing 33 civilians and wounded a further 300(This is the highest number of casualties in a single incident during "The Troubles") |
1975 |
"Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79 |
1975 |
101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4 |
1975 |
10CC releases "I'm Not in Love" |
1975 |
Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches |
1975 |
NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time |
1976 |
28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned win |
1976 |
Earthquake in Uzbekistan: thousands killed |
1977 |
Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel |
1978 |
Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run |
1979 |
-12°F (-11°C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record) |
1979 |
Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation |
1979 |
Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs |
1980 |
106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2 |
1980 |
Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours |
1980 |
Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured |
1980 |
Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live |
1981 |
"Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances |
1981 |
Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff |
1981 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
1983 |
Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty |
1983 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games |
1984 |
Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning |
1984 |
Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA |
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. |
1985 |
Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska |
1986 |
"Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart |
1986 |
112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8 |
1987 |
"Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances |
1987 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
1987 |
USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die |
1989 |
Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000! |
1989 |
Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart |
1989 |
Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa |
1990 |
Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI |
1990 |
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71 |
1990 |
European court rules pension rights for both men & women |
1990 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann |
1990 |
World Health Organisation takes Homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses. |
1991 |
Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe |
1992 |
38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King |
1992 |
Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk) |
1993 |
Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled |
1994 |
Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election |
1996 |
Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe |
1996 |
Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs |
1997 |
123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54 |
1997 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom |
1997 |
Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. |
1998 |
44th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Se Ri Pak |
1998 |
David Wells (New York Yankees) pitches a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins |
2000 |
In the Philippines an explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade. |
2001 |
President Bush calls for reduced regulations to encourage more oil, gas, and nuclear production |
2004 |
Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage |
2005 |
40th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Gretchen Wilson & Keith Urban wins |
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. |
2008 |
134th Preakness: Kent Desormeaux aboard Big Brown wins in 1:54.80 |
2013 |
90 people are killed and 200 are injured after a series of bombings across Iraq |
2014 |
Atlético Madrid win the 2013—14 La Liga |
2014 |
Arsenal defeats Hull City to win the 2014 FA Cup Final |
2014 |
Bayern Munich defeats Borussia Dortmund to win the 2013—14 DFB-Pokal |
2014 |
California Chrome wins the 2014 Preakness Stakes |
2016 |
Warren Buffett reveals $1bn Apple stake |
2016 |
First penis transplant in the US |
2016 |
Nicola Sturgeon to be confirmed as Scottish first minister |
2016 |
Sinead O'Connor found safe after going missing in Chicago area - police |
2017 |
Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say |
2017 |
Trump asked Comey to shut down Flynn investigation |
2017 |
Katy Perry will judge the reboot of 'American Idol' on ABC |
2017 |
Information Trump shared with Russians came from Israel, official says |
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