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
- 1590 –Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
- 1642 –Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
- 1673 –Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec.
- 1814 –The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
- 1865 –The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
- 1933 –Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
- 1939 –The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States’ first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
- 1940 –World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
- 1940 –World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
- 1943 –The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
- 1967 –Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
- 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 –On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
- 1983 –The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world’s largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer’s Freedom of Information Act request.
- 1990 –The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
- 1997 –Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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