Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 17
On June 17: Independence Day in Iceland (1944)
- 1775 - In the American Revolutionary War, British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
- 1789 - The Third Estate of France declared itself as a national assembly.
- 1961 - Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of two political parties.
- 1972 - Watergate scandal: Five men were arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
- 1994 - O. J. Simpson was chased down and arrested on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.