17th May anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1866
  • France
  • "Birth of Erik Satie, composer" more
• event
  • 1900
  • Great Britain
  • Relief of Mafeking
  • 1918
  • Ireland
  • Almost the entire leadership of Sinn Féin were arrested .
  • 1978
  • Switzerland
  • "Charlie Chaplin’s coffin, with his body still inside, was discovered in a field in Switzerland, after being stolen on 1st March."
  • 1983
  • "The USA, Lebanon and Israel signed an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon."
  • 1999
  • Israel
  • Ehud Barak was elected Prime Minister of Israel
• Death
  • 1521
  • Great Britain
  • "Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, executed for treason "
  • 1809
  • Austria
  • "Death of Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, Austrian physician who devised the diagnostic technique of percussion (tapping the body and listening to the sound produced)"
  • 1934
  • United States
  • "Death of Cass Gilbert, American architect who designed the Woolworth Building in New York and the US Supreme Court in Washington DC"