About June 17
June 17, 2025 is the 168th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 197 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 245 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 17
- 1497 –Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
- 1565 –Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
- 1579 –Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
- 1673 –French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
- 1839 –In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
- 1876 –Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
- 1901 –The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
- 1910 –Aurel Vlaicu pilots a A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
- 1930 –U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- 1939 –Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison
- 1940 –World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
- 1944 –Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
- 1948 –A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
- 1958 –The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
- 1958 –The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada opens. It is still open today.
- 1963 –The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord’s Prayer in public schools.
- 1971 –President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
- 1981 –Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: In the Hyatt Regency Hotel the 2nd and 4th floor walkways collapse crushing 144 people to death, this was the worst structural failure in the United States.
- 1991 –Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
- 1994 –Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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