Today in History
June 17
362 | Emperor Julian issues an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria. | |
1579 | Sir Francis Drake claims San Francisco Bay for England. | |
1775 | The British take Bunker Hill outside of Boston, after a costly battle. | |
1799 | Napoleon Bonaparte incorporates Italy into his empire. | |
1848 | Austrian General Alfred Windisch-Gratz crushes a Czech uprising in Prague. | |
1854 | The Red Turban revolt breaks out in Guangdong, China. | |
1856 | The Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia. | |
1861 | President Abraham Lincoln witnesses Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hot-air balloon. | |
1863 | On the way to Gettysburg, Union and Confederate forces skirmish at Point of Rocks, Maryland. | |
1872 | George M. Hoover begins selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas–a town which had previously been “dry.” | |
1876 | General George Crook‘s command is attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse. | |
1912 | The German Zeppelin SZ 111 burns in its hangar in Friedrichshafen. | |
1913 | U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico. | |
1917 | The Russian Duma meets in secret session in Petrograd and votes for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army. | |
1924 | The Fascist militia marches into Rome. | |
1926 | Spain threatens to quit the League of Nations if Germany is allowed to join. | |
1930 | The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States. | |
1931 | British authorities in China arrest Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh. | |
1932 | The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol. | |
1940 | The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. | |
1942 | Yank a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, begins publication. | |
1944 | French troops land on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. | |
1950 | Surgeon Richard Lawler performs the first kidney transplant operation in Chicago. | |
1953 | Soviet tanks fight thousands of Berlin workers rioting against the East German government. | |
1963 | The U.S. Supreme Court bans the required reading of the Lord’s prayer and Bible in public schools. | |
1965 | 27 B-52s hit Viet Cong outposts, but lose two planes in South Vietnam. | |
1970 | North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia. | |
1972 | Five men are arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. | |
1994 | Millions of Americans watch former football player O.J. Simpson–facing murder charges–drive his Ford Bronco through Los Angeles, followed by police. | |
Born on June 17 | ||
1239 | Edward I (Longshanks), King of England (1272-1307). | |
1703 | John Wesley, English evangelist and theologian, founder of the Methodist movement. | |
1742 | William Hooper, signer of the Declaration of Independence. | |
1871 | James Weldon Johnson, African-American poet and novelist (The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man). | |
1880 | Carl Van Vechten, writer. | |
1882 | Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born U.S. composer (The Rite of Spring, The Firebird). | |
1914 | John Hersey, novelist and journalist (Men of Bataan, Hiroshima). | |
1942 | Rod Padgett, poet. |
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