This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
06/17/1239 Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) 
06/17/1604 Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen (Maurits House) 
06/17/1682 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718) 
06/17/1703 John B Wesley, England, religion co-founder (Methodists) 
06/17/1714 Cesar F Cassini, 'the Thury', French astronomer (geodesic labor) 
06/17/1725 Joseph Anton Bauer, composer 
06/17/1742 William Hooper, signer (Decl of Ind) 
06/17/1750 Michel Woldemar, composer 
06/17/1756 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public 
06/17/1811 Jon Sigurdsson, Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends 
06/17/1817 Ivan K A‹vazovski, Russan painter (Harbor Scenes) 
06/17/1817 Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 190

06/17/1818 Charles Gounod, Paris, France, opera composer (Faust) 
06/17/1818 Sophia Frederika Mathilde, queen of Wrttemberg 
06/17/1823 John Henry Hobart Ward, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 190

06/17/1828 Jan K J de Jonge, historian 
06/17/1830 Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 19

06/17/1832 William Crookes, chemist/physicist; discovered thallium 
06/17/1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863 
06/17/1838 Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Kapala-Kundala) 
06/17/1838 Chattopadhyaya/Bankim Chandra, Bengalese writer (Monastery of Deligh

06/17/1845 Hendrik P Staal 
06/17/1855 Fritz Steinbach, composer 
06/17/1858 Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA) 
06/17/1861 Sidney James Jones, composer 
06/17/1867 John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor (shorthand) 
06/17/1870 George Cormack, created 'Wheaties' cereal 
06/17/1871 James Weldon Johnson, lawyer (1st black admitted to Florida Bar) 
06/17/1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania 
06/17/1875 Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World) 
06/17/1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician 
06/17/1882 Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [NS

06/17/1883 Alexandre Cellier, composer 
06/17/1888 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer 
06/17/1895 Louise Fazenda, US, actress/com‚dienne (Almost an actress) 
06/17/1895 Slavko Osterc, composer 
06/17/1898 Maurits C Escher, graphic artist 
06/17/1900 Hermann Reuter, composer 
06/17/1900 Martin Bormann, propoganda minister of Hitler 
06/17/1904 Coenrad van Emde Boas, sexologist 
06/17/1904 Ralph Bellamy, Chicago, actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places

06/17/1908 John Verrall, composer 
06/17/1910 Herbert Owen Reed, composer 
06/17/1910 Red Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington

06/17/1912 Don Gillis, Cameron Missouri, composer (Symphony #5«) 
06/17/1914 John R Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall) 
06/17/1915 Stringbean, [David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw) 
06/17/1916 Einar Englund, composer 
06/17/1918 Maldwyn Thomas, president (Welsh Liberal Party) 
06/17/1919 Antonius C 'Ton' Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Lucifer) 
06/17/1919 Galina Ivanova Ustvol'skaya, composer 
06/17/1919 Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale) 
06/17/1919 Max Dendermonde, [Henk Hazelhoff], literary 
06/17/1920 Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard) 
06/17/1920 Fran‡ois Jacob, France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965) 
06/17/1920 Patrick Duffy, MP 
06/17/1922 Herbert Kelsey Jones, composer 
06/17/1922 Jerry Fielding, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Lively Ones) 
06/17/1922 Paul Schallck, German writer (Don Quixote in Cologne) 
06/17/1923 Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams) 
06/17/1924 Henk J Hoekstra, president (CPN) 
06/17/1925 Keith Larsen, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Hunter, Brave Eagle) 
06/17/1926 Alan Walters, political economist 
06/17/1926 Manuel Enriquez, composer 
06/17/1927 Austin J Murphy, (Rep-D-PA, 1977-  ) 
06/17/1928 James Brown, soul singer (Hot Pants) 
06/17/1929 Michael L Strang, (Rep-R-CO, 1985-  ) 
06/17/1929 Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69) 
06/17/1930 Brian Statham, cricketer 
06/17/1930 James Gathers, Sumter SC, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952) 
06/17/1930 Romuald Twardowski, composer 
06/17/1931 Virginia McKenna, London, actress (Born Free, Gathering Storm) 
06/17/1932 Derek Ibbotson, athlete 
06/17/1932 John P Murtha, (Rep-D-PA, 1974-  ) 
06/17/1933 Christian Ferras, French violinist/conductor 
06/17/1939 Donald Anderson, Labour MP 
06/17/1940 Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs) 
06/17/1940 Tony Marlow, conservative MP 
06/17/1942 Norman Kuhlice, England, rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)

06/17/1943 Christopher Brown, composer 
06/17/1943 Newton L Gingrich, (Rep-R-Georgia, 1979-  ) 
06/17/1945 Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France) 
06/17/1945 Ken Livingstone, Labour MP 
06/17/1945 Tony Roche, tennis coach 
06/17/1946 Barry Manilow, NYC, singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs) 
06/17/1946 Marcy Kaptur, (Rep-D-HA, 1983-  ) 
06/17/1948 David Concepcion, Venezuela, all star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds) 
06/17/1948 Rub‚n Blades, Panama, singer/actor (Fatal Beauty, Critical Condition

06/17/1951 Joe Piscopo, Passaic NJ, comedian (SNL, Miller Lite commercials) 
06/17/1954 Mark Linn-Baker, St Louis, actor (Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers) 
06/17/1956 Nicholas Cook, cricketer 
06/17/1957 Philip Chevron, English pop musician (Pogues-Peace & Love) 
06/17/1958 Dan McVicar, Independence Mo, actor (Clarke-Bold & Beautiful) 
06/17/1964 Christy Cannon, XXX actress (Christy in the Wild) 
06/17/1964 Michael Gross, West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984) 
06/17/1964 Steve Rhodes, cricketer 
06/17/1965 Kami Cotler, Long Beach Calif, actress (Elizabeth-Waltons) 
06/17/1969 Kevin Thornton, Amarillo, vocalist (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up

06/17/1975 Frederick Koehler, Queens NY, actor (Chip-Kate & Allie) 
06/17/1977 Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands 
06/17/1977 Jason Miller, Silver Springs Md, actor (New Mickey Mouse Club) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
06/17/ 656 Osman ibn Affan, 3rd kalief of Islam (644-56) murdered 
06/17/ 676 Adeodatus II, Italian Pope (672-76), dies 
06/17/ 855 Leo IV, Italian Pope (847-55), dies 
06/17/1091 Dirk V, count of Holland (1061-91), dies 
06/17/1119 Boudew˜n VII with the Axe, earl of Flanders (1111-19), dies 
06/17/1501 Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland, dies 
06/17/1672 Orazio Benevoli, composer, dies at 67 
06/17/1678 Giacomo Torelli, composer, dies at 69 
06/17/1696 Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies at 72 
06/17/1696 Johannes II Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies 
06/17/1719 Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47 
06/17/1797 Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed 
06/17/1815 Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle 
06/17/1863 Isham W Garrott, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies in battl

06/17/1885 Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies 
06/17/1905 M ximo G¢mez, Cuban general, dies at 68 
06/17/1906 Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies 
06/17/1906 William Dale, international legal consultant, dies 
06/17/1910 Lady Mosley, biographer, dies 
06/17/1918 Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission), dies 
06/17/1928 Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (Virulo, mocedades), dies

06/17/1936 Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies 
06/17/1938 Peter Michael, CEO (Cray Electronics), dies 
06/17/1939 Eugene Weldman, last guillotined in France 
06/17/1941 Johan Wagenaar, composer/conductor (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 78 
06/17/1951 Carl Vogler, composer, dies at 77 
06/17/1952 Alberto Williams, composer, dies at 89 
06/17/1953 Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76 
06/17/1959 Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68

06/17/1961 Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Away all boats), dies at 40 
06/17/1963 Alain FB Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79 
06/17/1963 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies 
06/17/1965 Arnold Me˜er, leader (Fascist Nationally Front), dies 
06/17/1973 Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66 
06/17/1974 Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50 
06/17/1978 Cully Richards, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie), dies at 68 
06/17/1979 Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58 
06/17/1983 Peter Mennin, composer, dies at 60 
06/17/1984 Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51 
06/17/1984 Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies 
06/17/1985 Piet de Somer, Belgian rector of University of Leuven, dies at 67 
06/17/1986 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75 
06/17/1986 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78 
06/17/1987 Dick Howser, NY Yankee & KC Royal mgr, dies at 51 of brain cancer 
06/17/1989 David S Griggs, astronaut, dies in crash of WW II vintage plane 
06/17/1989 John Matusek, Oakland Raider/actor, dies at 38 of a heart attack 
06/17/1990 Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies 
06/17/1990 Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies at 44 of cerebral hemorrhage 
06/17/1992 Dewey Balfa, bayou fiddler, dies at 65 
06/17/1992 Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note), dies at 63 
06/17/1993 Angus Suttie, English potter, dies of AIDS at 46 
06/17/1993 French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
06/17/   2 -BC- Venus-Jupiter conjunction, 'star of Bethlehem?' 
06/17/ 653 St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
06/17/ 656 Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam 
06/17/ 676 Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
06/17/1091 Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland 
06/17/1119 Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders 
06/17/1291 Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, & destroyed 
06/17/1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway 
06/17/1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of Calif 
06/17/1580 Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels 
06/17/1583 Brabant: duke of Parma beats French mercenaries 
06/17/1700 Mass orders priest to leave the colony 
06/17/1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French 
06/17/1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill) 
06/17/1789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly 
06/17/1815 Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda 
06/17/1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent 
06/17/1850 Paddle-wheeler 'G P Griffith' burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die) 
06/17/1855 Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed 
06/17/1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia 
06/17/1861 Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Conmfederate force

06/17/1863 Battle at Middleburg Virginia 
06/17/1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia 
06/17/1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta 
06/17/1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer) 
06/17/1864 -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia 
06/17/1864 General John B Hood replaces General Johnston 
06/17/1864 Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia 
06/17/1876 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)

06/17/1876 Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother 
06/17/1880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo 
06/17/1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa 
06/17/1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' 
06/17/1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont 
06/17/1897 William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti 
06/17/1898 US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii 
06/17/1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar 
06/17/1911 Belgium govt of De Broqueville forms 
06/17/1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia 
06/17/1916 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java 
06/17/1916 US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico 
06/17/1917 British king George V takes the name Windsor 
06/17/1919 'Barney Google' cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres 
06/17/1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law 
06/17/1930 Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games 
06/17/1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada 
06/17/1933 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob

06/17/1937 Marx Brothers' 'A Day At The Races' opens in NY 
06/17/1938 Japan declares war on China 
06/17/1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II 
06/17/1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London 
06/17/1940 Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland 
06/17/1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) 
06/17/1944 -19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba 
06/17/1944 Col Blake, poet [Mr of Heaven Good Heart] arrive in London 
06/17/1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark at Thingvallir, Iceland 
06/17/1944 Resistance fighter Col Blake reachs London 
06/17/1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day) 
06/17/1946 SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis 
06/17/1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC 
06/17/1947 Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin 
06/17/1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader 
06/17/1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago) 
06/17/1950 Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact 
06/17/1952 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium 
06/17/1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification 
06/17/1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co) 
06/17/1954 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in NYC 
06/17/1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends 
06/17/1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores) 
06/17/1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy 
06/17/1959 Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland 
06/17/1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th HR 
06/17/1961 Gene Littler wins US Open golf tournament 
06/17/1961 Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt 
06/17/1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago 
06/17/1962 Jack Nicklaus wins US Open golf tournament 
06/17/1963 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair 
06/17/1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools 
06/17/1965 11.08' (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record

06/17/1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon) 
06/17/1965 Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour 
06/17/1967 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes 
06/17/1967 Barbra Striesand: A Happening in Central Park performed 
06/17/1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power 
06/17/1968 Belgium govt of Eyskens-Merlot forms 
06/17/1968 KQEC TV channel 32 in San Francisco, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting 
06/17/1971 C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas 
06/17/1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate 
06/17/1972 Chile president Allende forms new government 
06/17/1972 Looking Glass releases 'Brandy' 
06/17/1973 Johnny Miller wins US Open golf tournament 
06/17/1973 Russian party leader Brezjnev visits US 
06/17/1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 & #3083 
06/17/1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US 
06/17/1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA 
06/17/1976 Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor 
06/17/1978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs 
06/17/1979 Hale Irwin wins again US Open golf tournament 
06/17/1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson 
06/17/1981 Battle between muslims & christians in Cairo, 14 killed 
06/17/1982 Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ('evil empire' speech) 
06/17/1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat 
06/17/1984 John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada 
06/17/1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched 
06/17/1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated 
06/17/1988 Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips 
06/17/1988 Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens 
06/17/1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0 
06/17/1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case 
06/17/1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup 
06/17/1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78 
06/17/1991 Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died 
06/17/1992 Conn Gov Lowell Weicker & WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day 
06/17/1992 Phila 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns 
06/17/1992 Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, S Africa, kills 42 
06/17/1994 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago 
06/17/1994 OJ Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase 
  
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