Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 17
This is a list of selected June 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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New Democratic Party of Canada's bilingual logo
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Flag of Iceland
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O.J. Simpson's mug shot
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1462 – Forces led by Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an attempt to assassinate Mehmed II. | unreferenced section |
| 1789 – French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly. | original research |
| 1953 – The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei violently suppressed an uprising in Berlin against the East German government. | requires expansion |
| 1961 – Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and organised labour. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Abington School District v. Schempp that school-sponsored Bible reading in U.S. public schools is unconstitutional. | citatio |
| 1987 – "Orange Band", the last Dusky Seaside Sparrow, died. | tagged as stub |
Eligible
- 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law, raising tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.
- 1972 – Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex (pictured) in Washington, D.C., igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon more than two years later.
- 1982 – The body of Italian banker Roberto Calvi, known as "God's Banker" due to his close association with the Vatican, was found hanging from scaffolding beneath London's Blackfriars Bridge.
- 1994 – Following a police chase along Los Angeles freeways and a failed suicide attempt, actor and former American football player O. J. Simpson was arrested for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Notes
- The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation is also mentioned on June 15.
June 17: Icelandic National Day
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- 1579 – Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
- 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal, wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal (pictured).
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
- 1963 – Around 2,000 people rioted in South Vietnam, despite the signing of the Joint Communique to resolve the ongoing Buddhist crisis one day earlier.
- 1991 – The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act, which required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered by race as part of the system of apartheid.