About May 17
May 17, 2024 is the 138th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 228 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 257 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 17
- 1536 –George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
- 1590 –Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
- 1814 –The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
- 1849 –A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
- 1865 –The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
- 1915 –The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
- 1933 –Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
- 1940 –World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
- 1943 –The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
- 1954 –The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
- 1967 –Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
- 1970 –Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1973 –Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
- 1974 –Dublin and Monaghan bombings: Thirty-three civilians are killed when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explodes car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.
- 1974 –Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army’s headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
- 1980 –General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
- 1990 –The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
- 1994 –Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
- 2006 –The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
- 2007 –Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
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