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.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Icelandic National Day | unreferenced section |
| 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. | Origins: refimprove section; Taj: date not in article |
| 1789 – French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly. | original research, needs more footnotes |
| 1953 – The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei violently suppressed an uprising in Berlin against the East German government. | refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 1972 – Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex 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. | Watergate scandal: Refimprove section |
| 1987 – "Orange Band", the last dusky seaside sparrow, died. | refimprove |
| 1985 – On board Space Shuttle Discovery, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud became the first Arab, the first Muslim, and the first astronaut of royal blood to fly in outer space. | refimprove section |
| 1991 – The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act, which required that each inhabitant be classified and registered by race as part of the system of apartheid. | needs reorganization |
| 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. | Simpson: unreferenced section; Murder case: refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1462 – Forces led by Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia (pictured) attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an attempt to assassinate Mehmed II.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.
- 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.
- 1876 – Great Sioux War: A band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne attacked a United States Army expedition and its Crow and Shoshone allies in the Battle of the Rosebud.
- 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts after a brief but bloody battle.
- 1922 – Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral completed the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
- 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 Communiqué to resolve the ongoing Buddhist crisis one day earlier.
- Born/died this day: John Kay (b. 1704) · M. C. Escher (b. 1898) · Emily Sartain (d. 1927) · Grace Towns Hamilton (d. 1992)
Notes
- Thich Quang Duc appears on June 11, so Joint Communique should not appear in the same year
- Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown appears on June 15, so Aerial crossing of the South Atlantic should not appear in the same year
- 1397 – The three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were joined into the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Erik of Pomerania.
- 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.
- 1940 – Second World War: Britain's worst maritime disaster occurred when at least 3,000 people were killed as a result of the troopship RMS Lancastria's sinking by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
- 2015 – A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people during a prayer service (memorial service pictured).
Carl Van Vechten (b. 1880) · Carmen Casco de Lara Castro (b. 1918) · Annie S. Swan (d. 1943)