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On this Day ~ June 17th

653 St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

676 Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway

1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of Calif

1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French

1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)

1789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly

1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)

1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia

1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia

1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)

1876 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)

1880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo

1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa

1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'

1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont

1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble
Hill off from Manhattan

1897 William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti

1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar

1919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premiers

1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman to fly the Atlantic

(as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)

1930 Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games

1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)

1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland

1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)

1946 SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis

1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC

1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader

1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)

1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification

1953 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius &

Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary

1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends

1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)

1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th home run

1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago

1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools

1965 28.14 cm (11.08") of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)

1965 Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour

1967 Barbra Striesand: A Happening in Central Park performed

1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power

1971 C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas

1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate

1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"

1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 & #3083

1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US

1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into the NBA

1978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs

1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson

1982 Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)

1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat

1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched

1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated

1988 Bruce Springsteen seperates from Juliette Phillips

1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0

1988 The Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens

1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case

1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup

1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78

1994 World Cup soccer match begins