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

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