Today In History.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1775-06-17 | Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill) |
| 1789-06-17 | 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly |
| 1856-06-17 | Republican Party opened its 1st convention in Phila |
| 1880-06-17 | John Ward - Providence - pitches perfect game vs Buffalo |
| 1885-06-17 | Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' |
| 1937-06-17 | Marx Brothers' 'A Day At The Races' opens in NY |
| 1940-06-17 | France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II |
| 1942-06-17 | 1st American expeditionary force to land in Africa (WW2) |
| 1944-06-17 | Rep of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir |
| 1945-06-17 | German Fed Rep National Day |
| 1947-06-17 | 1st round-the-world civil air service left NYC |
| 1953-06-17 | Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary |
| 1954-06-17 | Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ended |
| 1963-06-17 | Supreme Court strikes down Lord's Prayer recitation |
| 1971-06-17 | US returns control of Okinawa to Japanese |
| 1972-06-17 | Democratic HQs at Watergate burglarized - wire-tapped |
| 1978-06-17 | Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike outs |
| 1982-06-17 | President Galtieri resigns in Argentina. Also Ronald Reagan's 'evil empire' speech |
| 1985-06-17 | 18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 is launched |
| 1986-06-17 | Singer Kate Smith dies in Raleigh NC at 79 |
| 1986-06-17 | Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated |
| 1987-06-17 | NY Yankee & KC Royal Mgr Dick Howser dies at 51 of brain cancer |