All Events

Historical Events on June 17

  • American Revolutionary War

    1775

    American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.

  • American Civil War

    1861

    American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.

  • Boxer Rebellion

    1900

    Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.

  • Herbert Hoover

    1930

    U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.

  • Iceland

    1944

    Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.

  • United States Supreme Court

    1963

    The United States Supreme Court rules 8-1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.

  • Watergate scandal

    1972

    Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

  • Apartheid

    1991

    Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.

  • George H. W. Bush

    1992

    A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).

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