17th June anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1239
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Edward I, King of England." more
  • 1682
  • Sweden
  • "Birth of Charles XII, King of Sweden"
  • 1703
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of John Wesley, founder of Methodism"
  • 1808
  • Norway
  • "Birth of Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer ."
  • 1818
  • France
  • "Birth of Charles-Francois Gounod, composer"
  • 1832
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of William Crookes, British chemist and physicist who discovered thallium and invented several measuring instruments that were fundamental in the development of atomic physics"
  • 1882
  • Russian Federation
  • "Birth of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer"
• event
  • 1497
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of Deptford Bridge (AKA Battle of Blackheath) ended the Cornish rebellion against Henry VII. more
  • 1497
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of Blackheath
  • 1579
  • Great Britain
  • Francis Drake landed in California and claimed it for England more
  • 1673
  • France
  • Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet arrived at the Mississippi River and are the first Europeans to make a detailed study of its course. more
  • 1809
  • France
  • French Emperor Napoleon I annexed the Papal States
  • 1885
  • United States
  • The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York. more
  • 1939
  • France
  • "The last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a German serial killer, was executed outside the Saint-Pierre prison, Versailles" more
  • 1950
  • United States
  • First kidney transplant took place
  • 1970
  • United States
  • Polaroid camera patented by Edwin Land
  • 1994
  • United States
  • O.J. Simpson was arrested in California for the murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
• Death
  • 1631
  • India
  • "Death of Mumtaz Mahal in childbirth, wife of Shah Jahan I who built the Taj Mahal as her mausoleum." more
  • 1845
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Richard Barham, (nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby) author of the Ingoldsby Legends" more
  • 1898
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Edward Burne-Jones, British artist ."
  • 1963
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of John Cowper-Powys, British writer" more