What are the important events that happened on June 17? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 17: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 17 is the 168th day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 197 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 4, 2017 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 24,960,960 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontaoctagon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 247 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,639 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 17 Historical Events
- 1497 –Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
- 1876 –Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
- 1885 –The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- 1930 –U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- 1933 –Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
- 1944 –Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
- 1948 –A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
- 1960 –The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 e6acre of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
- 1981 –Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: In the Hyatt Regency Hotel the 2nd and 4th floor walkways collapse crushing 144 people to death, this was the worst structural failure in the United States.
- 1991 –Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
Who were born on June 17?
- 1742 –William Hooper, American signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
- 1839 –Arthur Tooth, English Anglican clergyman (d. 1931)
- 1863 –Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, Russian-born head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934)
- 1904 –Ralph Bellamy, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1909 –Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
- 1952 –Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and executive
- 1960 –Adrián Campos, Spanish racing driver
- 1982 –Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player
- 1983 –Connie Fisher, English stage actress
- 1984 –John Gallagher, Jr., American actor
Who died on June 17?
- 1694 –Philip Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
- 1821 –Martín Miguel de Güemes, Argentine military leader (b. 1785)
- 1898 –Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
- 1941 –Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1862)
- 1963 –Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician and nationalist (b. 1882)
- 1979 –Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (b. 1888)
- 1986 –Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)
- 2001 –Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
- 2005 –Sam Loeb, American comic book writer (b. 1988)
- 2009 –Darrell Powers, American World War II figure (b. 1923)
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