On this day in History - Jun 17

• 1194 - Richard I crowned again. After having been held captive for two years by Emperor Henry VI, Richard felt it was necessary to demonstrate his sovereignty over England, and so he had a second coronation. Less than one month later he left the country, never to return.
• 1239 - King Edward I of England, king of England (1272-1307), was born. He became king of England following the death of his father Henry III .
• 1397 -The Kalmar Union -The coronation of Erik of Pomerania as king of Norway, Sweden and Denmark united the kingdoms in a union that would last until 1523.
• 1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
• 1565 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
• 1565 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru dies (b. 1536). Ashikaga shogun.
• 1567 - A Rainha dos escoceses, Maria, é encarcerada no Castelo de Lochleven, na Escócia.
• 1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
• 1600 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca was born. Spanish dramatist.
• 1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
• 1658 - Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real was born. Portuguese diplomat and politician.
• 1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden was born (d. 1718)
• 1696 - John III Sobieski dies (b. 1629). King of Poland.
• 1697 - Morte do jesuíta português António Vieira (algumas fontes citam 18 Jul 1697)
• 1698 - Os mercenário estrangeiro do Czar Pedro "O Grande" derrotam os rebeldes de Streltzy em Moscovo, Rússia.
• 1703 - John Wesley was born (d. 1791). English theologian, founder of Methodism
• 1719 - Joseph Addison dies (b. 1 May 1672). English politician and writer.
• 1734 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars dies (b. 1653). Marshal of France.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill - The British forces take Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
• 1789 - In France, the Third Estate declares itself as a national assembly.
• 1797 - Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, was castrated and killed.
• 1798 - Em França, o terceiro Estado autodeclara-se uma Assembleia Nacional e inicia os trabalhos de elaboração de uma constituição.
• 1808 - Henrik Wergeland was born. Norwegian author.
• 1810 - Ferdinand Freiligrath was born (d. 1876)
• 1811 - O Conselho Nacional Francês aprecia em Paris a disputa entre Napoleão Bonaparte e o Papa Pio VII.
• 1818 - Charles Gounod was born (d. 1893). French composer.
• 1832 - Sir William Crookes was born (d. 1919). Physicist, chemist.
• 1837 - Charles Goodyear got a patent for rubber, the squishy, bouncy stuff.
• 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 is later established as a result.
  1843 - Os Maoris revoltam-se contra os Britânicos na Nova Zelândia.
• 1863 - Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War
• 1876 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
• 1881 - Tommy Burns was born (d. 1955). Boxer.
• 1882 - Igor Stravinsky was born (d. 6 Apr 1971). Russian composer (The Firebird, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, The Wedding, The Soldier’s Tale).
• 1882 - Armando Celis Maturana was born. Chilean politician.
• 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• 1898 - The Navy Hospital Corps is established.
• 1898 - M. C. Escher was born (d. 1972). Dutch artist
• 1898 - Edward Burne-Jones dies (b. 1833). English artist.
• 1900 - Martin Bormann was born (d. 1945). Nazi official.
• 1904 - Ralph Bellamy was born (d. 1991). Actor.
• 1907 - Charles Eames was born (d. 1978), American designer and architect.
• 1909 - Elmer Lee Andersen was born (d. 2004). American politician and governor of Minnesota
• 1910 - Red Foley was born (d. 1968). Country musician
• 1914 - John Hersey was born (d. 1993). American author
• 1915 - Karl Targownik was born (d. 1996). Hungaryan psychiatrist.
• 1917 - Atle Selberg was born. Norwegian mathematician.
• 1920 - François Jacob was born. French biologist. 1965 Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 - Gago Coutinho e Sacadura Cabral concluíram a primeira travessia aérea do Atlântico Sul.
• 1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch was born. American football player
• 1925 - Protocolo de Genebra proíbe o uso de armas químicas e bacteriológicas em guerras.
  1926 - Em Portugal, o general Gomes da Costa afasta do poder Mendes Cabeçadas e assume a chefia do governo.
• 1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic.
• 1928 - Juan Maria Bordaberry was born. President odf Uruguay (1972-1976)
• 1929 - Tigran Petrosian was born (d. 1984). Chess player.
• 1930 - Brian Statham was born (d. 2000). English cricketer.
• 1930 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law.
• 1930 - Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
• 1936 - Ken Loach was born. English actor.
• 1939 - Eugen Weidmann dies. Last public guillotine execution in France
• 1940 - Arthur Harden dies (b. 1865). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1940 - George Akerlof was born. American economist
• 1940 - World War II: Operation Ariel begins - Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
• 1940 - World War II: Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
• 1940 - The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
• 1942 - Mohamed ElBaradei was born. IAEA Director
• 1943 - Newt Gingrich was born. American politician
• 1943 - Barry Manilow, [Barry Alan Pincus] was born. Grammy Award-winning singer: I Write the Songs [1975]; Mandy, Looks Like We Made It, Can’t Smile Without You, Copacabana
• 1944 - Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic.
• 1945 - Ken Livingstone was born. Mayor of London
• 1945 - Eddy Merckx was born. Belgian cycling champion
• 1945 - Anupam Kher was born. Indian actor
• 1946 - Peter Rosei, was born. Writer
• 1947 - A Assembleia Constituinte da Birmânia decide-se a favor da República da Birmânia independente.
• 1948 - A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
• 1952 - O Perú torna-se membro da Food and Agriculture Organization - FAO
• 1953 - Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• 1954 - Rocky Marciano successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title by defeating former champion Ezzard Charles.
• 1954 - Fundação do Hotel El Prado - Barranquilla - Colômbia
• 1956 - Paul Rostock dies (b. 1892). German doctor.
• 1957 - Dorothy Richardson dies (b. 1873). English feminist writer.
• 1958 - Jello Biafra was born. Musician, politician
• 1960 - Joseph Kasavubu is selected to be the first president of the Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC).
• 1961 - Russian dancer in freedom dash : Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev breaks free from security guards at Paris airport and asks for asylum in France.
• 1961 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
• 1961 - Thomas Haden Church was born in El Paso, Texas, USA. Actor.
• 1961 - Jeff Chandler dies (b. 1918). Actor .
• 1962 - O Brasil sagra-se Bicampeão Mundial de futebol ao vencer o Campeonato de 1962 no Chile derrotando na final a Checoslováquia.
• 1963 - The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
• 1963 - Greg Kinnear was born at Logansport, Indiana, USA. actor
• 1964 - Michael Gross was born. Swimmer
• 1966 - Jason Patric (Miller Jr.) was born. Actor.
• 1969 - Boris Spassky became chess champion of the world after checkmating former Champion Tigran Petrosian in Moscow.
• 1971 - Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.
• 1971 - Paulina Rubio was born. Mexican singer.
• 1971 - Humberto Madeira dies. Portuguese actor.
• 1972 - Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
• 1975 - Chloe Jones was born. Actress.
• 1978 - O francês Jacques de Larosière assume a direção do Fundo Monetário Internacional
  1979 - Nick Rimando was born. Footballer
• 1979 - Duffy Lewis dies (b. 1888). Major League Baseball player.
• 1980 - Venus Williams, tennis player: doubles title: U.S./French Opens w/sister Serena [1999]; Grand Slam singles: Wimbledon [2000], U.S. Open [2000, 2001]; doubles: w/sister Serena: Wimbledon [2000]; fastest serve in WTA history [127 mph]
• 1979 - Nicolas Ray dies. American film director.
• 1980 - O Presidente do Senegal, Leopoldo Sedar Senghor, é doutorado "Honoris Causa" pela universidade de Évora, em cerimónia apadrinhada pelo Presidente Português Ramalho Eanes.
• 1982 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
• 1982 - Roberto Calvi dies. Banker
• 1982 - Leopold Galtieri, sob pressão na seqüência da derrota Argentina no conflito da Falkland/Malvinas, demite-se do cargo de Presidente, Comandante-em-Chefe e membro da Junta Militar Nacional.
• 1984 - Votantes de mais de seis países membros da CEE, vão as urnas para eleger um novo Parlamento Europeu (eleitores dos outros quatro países votaram dia 14).
• 1985 - Judy Norton-Taylor, who played the role of Mary Ellen on The Waltons, saw her good-girl image tarnished as she was photographed nude for Playboy magazine.
• 1986 - Kate Smith dies. American singer
• 1989 - Fernando Collor de Melo, candidato à Presidência da República do Brasil, visita Portugal por dois dias.
• 1991 - Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
• 1991 - A Alemanha e a Polônia põem fim a 46 anos de rivalidades, assinando, em Bona, um tratado de amizade e não agressão.
• 1992 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
• 1992 - Over 200 rioters, armed with guns and pangas (machetes) stormed through squatter camps south of Johannesburg. 39 people are killed including women and children.
• 1992 - Ganesh Sittamplam, com 13 anos, forma-se em Matemática pela Surrey University, passando a ser o licenciado mais jovem de todos os tempos.
• 1992 - Institui-se em Angola o "Dia das Actividades Geologicas e Mineiras".
• 1994 - Following a televised highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
• 1994 - Início do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol Mundo, nos Estados Unidos
• 1994 - Portugal torna-se participante do Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• 1996 - Thomas Kuhn dies. American philosopher of science (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).
• 2001 - Scotland: Catholic leader Cardinal Winning dies - The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland dies suddenly at his Glasgow home.
• 2002 - Willie Davenport dies. Athlete
• 2002 - Fritz Walter dies. Footballer
• 2004 - Gerry McNeil dies (b. 1926). Hockey player
• 2004 - Sara Lidman dies (b. 1923). Swedish writer.
• 2004 - O Conselho de Segurança da ONU congela os bens do Ex-presidente liberiano, Charles Taylor.
• 2004 - Gerry McNeil dies (b. 1926). Canadian hockey player.
• 2005 - Karl Mueller dies (b. 1962). American bassist (Soul Asylum)
• Dia Mundial de Combate à Desertificação (Pronunciamento de Kofi Annan). O Dia 17 de Junho, foi proclamado pela Assembléia Geral da ONU, em 1994 (resolução 49/115). Precisamente nesse dia e ano, foi aprovada a Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre a Luta contra a Desertificação. Os Estados foram convidados a dedicar o Dia Mundial para sensibilizar a opinião pública sobre a necessidade de promover a cooperação internacional no combate à desertificação e aos efeitos da seca, e de aplicar a Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre a Luta contra a Desertificação.
• Iceland's national day, celebrating independence from Denmark in 1944