Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 17
This is a list of selected June 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Icelandic National Day | no footnotes |
| 1789 – French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly. | original research |
| 1953 – The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei violently suppressed an uprising in Berlin against the East German government. | refimrove, requires expansion |
| 1963 – The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Abington School District v. Schempp that school-sponsored Bible reading in U.S. public schools is unconstitutional. | citation style |
| 1987 – "Orange Band", the last Dusky Seaside Sparrow, died. | tagged as stub |
Eligible
- 1462 – Forces led by Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an attempt to assassinate Mehmed II.
- 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal, wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the earliest military movements of troops by train in the world.
- 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law, raising tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.
- 1963 – Around 2,000 people rioted in South Vietnam, despite the signing of the Joint Communique to resolve the ongoing Buddhist crisis one day earlier.
- 1991 – The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act, which required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered by race as part of the system of apartheid.
- 1994 – Following a police chase along Los Angeles freeways and a failed suicide attempt, actor and former American football player O. J. Simpson was arrested for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Notes
- Thich Quang Duc appears on June 11, so Joint Communique should not appear in the same year
- 1579 – Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
- 1843 – New Zealand Wars: An armed posse of Europeans set out from Nelson to arrest Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha and clashed with Māori, resulting in 26 deaths.
- 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts after a brief but bloody battle.
- 1972 – Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex (pictured) in Washington, D.C., igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon more than two years later.