June 17

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 17. From 1900 until now. June 17 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Newt Gingrich (1943), Kendrick Lamar (1987) and Lio (1962). Several movies were released around June 17 over the years, such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966 directed by Mike Nichols and Up in Mabel's Room in 1926 directed by E. Mason Hopper.
But much more happened on June 17 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

St. Albert Chmielowski.
National holiday of West Germany until 1990, see Workers' Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
Iceland's national day, celebrating independence from Denmark in 1944.

Events

2019 Boko Haram: Three Boko Haram suicide bombers detonate their devices among a group of football fans, killing 30 people and wounding 40 others, in Konduga, Nigeria. (BBC)Boko Haram terrorists exchange gunfire with Nigerian troops in the Nganzai local government area of Borno State. (Al Jazeera)
2018 Boko Haram insurgency: Twin suicide bombings in Damboa, Nigeria, leave at least 31 people dead. The explosions are reportedly followed by rockets fired from outside the town. (BBC)
2017 War in Afghanistan: At least one Afghan is killed and seven American soldiers wounded in an "insider attack" at Camp Shaheen, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. An earlier report that Americans had been killed is incorrect. The Taliban claims responsibility. (Reuters) (The New York Times)
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017), Military intervention against ISIL, Battle of Fallujah (2016): The Iraqi government recaptures the main government compound in Fallujah. (AFP via Daily Mail)
2015 The American NBC network announces that Lester Holt will continue as the host of the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams returning in an undisclosed role. (The Wrap)
2014 North Korean propaganda videos show that they have developed a cruise missile similar to the Russian Kh-35 model. (BBC)
2013 The 39th G8 summit gets underway in Northern Ireland with the Syrian civil war high on the agenda. (BBC)
2012 Multiple bombings kill at least 12 people in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
2011 The Yonhap news agency reports that South Korea has deployed precision-guided missiles capable of hitting the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. (Yonhap News)
2010 The United States issues a travel warning for Toronto due to an upcoming G20 summit. (The Star)
2009 Former American HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy is ordered to pay US$2.9 billion after a judge found him responsible for an accounting fraud that nearly bankrupted the hospital chain.
2008 The Boston Celtics win a record 17th NBA championship by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92 in Game Six.
2007 Air strikes in Afghanistan on a suspected Al Qaeda headquarters kill several militants as well as civilians, including children. (Reuters)(BBC)
2006 Violence intensifies in Sri Lanka as government troops allegedly attack Tamils in a church in response to an attack on the navy by the Tamil Tigers. (BBC)
2005 Because of "quadruple-witching" options and futures expiration, the New York Stock Exchange sees the heaviest first-hour trading on record. 704 million shares are traded between 9:30-10:30 A.M. (1.92 billion shares for the day).
2004 The Pentagon confirms a report in The New York Times that CIA chief George Tenet – who steps down from the post next month – was allowed by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to have an Iraqi prisoner secretly detained in alleged violation of the Geneva Convention. (BBC) (NYT)
2003 United States troops shoot dead two former Iraqi soldiers who were protesting that they had not been paid since their country was occupied.
1997 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 and Minneapolis-St Paul and Columbus, Ohio in 2000
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse New York on WAQX 95.7 FM
1994 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs. Bolivia in Chicago
1992 Conn Gov Lowell Weicker and WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
1990 Some Americans Abroad closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 62 performances
1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in third round of 1990 world soccer cup.
1988 Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips
1987 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1986 US Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns; Antonin Scalia nominated.
1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G) - Discovery 5 launched
1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1982 President Reagan 1st UN General Assembly address (evil empire speech)
1981 Battle between Moslems and Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
1980 Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
1979 Sarava closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
1978 Cheeseburger In Paradise by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32
1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Island approve commonwealth status with US.
1973 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa
1972 Long Haired Lover From Liverpool by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
1971 At 11:13 AM, Disneyland welcomes its 100-millionth guest, Valerie Suldo of New Jersey.
1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
1969 Oh! Calcutta! opens in NYC (almost entirely in the nude)
1968 Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms
1967 Somebody To Love by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5
1966 An Air France personnel strike begins.
1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)
1963 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
1962 62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
1961 Billy Barnes People closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 performances
1960 Fire consumes the El Rancho Vegas casino resort, on the Las Vegas Strip.
1959 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland
1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
1957 So Rare by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra peaks at #2
1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co)
1953 Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)
1952 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
1951 Flahooley closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances
1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit home runs in both ends of a doubleheader.
1947 Earnest Reuter becomes Mayor of Berlin
1946 SouthWest Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, Saint Louis, Missouri. USA.
1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
1944 Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
1943 Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs
1942 First World War II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast).
1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WWII
1939 Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
1938 Japan declares war on China
1933 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops and 1 gangster killed by mob
1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
1930 Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
1919 British Police Sergeant Thomas Green killed during the Epsom Riot by Canadian troops
1917 British King George V takes the name Windsor
1916 1st national Congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
1911 Belgium government of De Broqueville forms
1910 Aurel Vlaicu performed the first flight of A. Vlaicu nr. 1.
1902 Norwich City Football Club is formed.
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