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Events from History on May 17

1525 : Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
1527 : P nfilo de Narva‚z departs to explore Florida
1536 : Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed
1544 : Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
1579 : Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma
1579 : recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
1620 : 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1630 : Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
1631 : Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
1648 : Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
1672 : Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
1673 : Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
1678 : King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
1712 : Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
1733 : England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses
1733 : imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
1742 : Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
1744 : French army takes Austrian Netherlands
1750 : -18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem
1756 : Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
1787 : English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
1792 : 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1794 : Hard frost in southern New England
1803 : John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1804 : Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
1809 : Papal States annexed by France
1814 : Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
1814 : Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
1837 : Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)
1845 : Rubber band patents
1846 : Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax
1848 : Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
1849 : Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri
1853 : Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
1862 : Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
1863 : Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS
1864 : Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
1871 : Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
1872 : Bohemian Club incorporated
1876 : 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
1877 : Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1881 : Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
1881 : Revised version of New Testament
1883 : Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha
1884 : Alaska becomes a US territory
1890 : Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in NYC
1890 : Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
1890 : Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome
1895 : W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol
1898 : Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503]
1899 : Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
1900 : British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
1903 : Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
1904 : Maurice Ravel's "Sh‚h‚razade," premieres in Paris
1905 : Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball
1906 : Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
1909 : White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
1910 : Canada sets the designs for the 1›-50› coins
1915 : 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
1915 : Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with
1915 : Last liberal British govt of Asquith falls
1915 : National Baptist Convention chartered
1916 : British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
1920 : 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
1920 : 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
1921 : Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
1921 : President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
1923 : Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
1925 : Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
1926 : Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
1926 : German govt of Marx takes power
1927 : Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
1932 : Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
1937 : Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
1938 : Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1938 : Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
1939 : 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
1940 : Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
1940 : Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
1941 : Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
1942 : Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
1944 : -18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1944 : Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
1944 : General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
1944 : Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea
1945 : 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
1946 : KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
1946 : Pres Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
1947 : "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
1948 : Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
1948 : Soviet Union recognized Israel
1949 : British government recognizes Republic of Ireland
1954 : Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education
1954 : reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1955 : Dutch Govt of Drees resigns
1957 : Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
1957 : School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education
1958 : Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
1959 : Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
1960 : 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA
1961 : Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1962 : Marin County withdraws from BART district
1963 : Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ
1963 : Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
1963 : US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1964 : Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
1966 : KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 : Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"
1968 : European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
1968 : US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1969 : Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
1970 : Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
1970 : Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
1971 : Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway
1971 : Washington State bans sex discrimination
1972 : Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors
1973 : "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
1973 : Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale
1973 : Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run
1973 : Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1973 : Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
1973 : US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado
1973 : wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's
1974 : Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet
1975 : 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
1975 : Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
1975 : NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
1976 : 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned
1976 : Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed
1978 : Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run
1979 : -12øF (-11øC), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
1979 : Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
1979 : Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs
1980 : Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
1980 : Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
1980 : Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
1981 : "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
1981 : Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
1983 : Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
1984 : Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning
1984 : Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA
1985 : Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
1987 : "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances
1987 : USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
1989 : Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
1989 : Nelson Mandela receives a BA from U of S Africa
1989 : Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825M
1990 : Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
1990 : Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
1990 : European court rules pension rights for both men & women
1990 : WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
1991 : Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
1992 : 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King
1993 : Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled
1996 : Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
1996 : Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs
1997 : Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
1997 : WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom
1998 : 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship

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