17 June - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on June 17, the day number in a year is 168 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 169. June 17 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
June 17 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1462 | Forces led by Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia attacked an Ottomancamp at night in an attempt to assassinate Mehmed II. |
| 1579 | Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-dayCalifornia, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England. |
| 1609 | The Netherlands, England and France signed a 12-year contract. |
| 1631 | Mumtaz Mahal, wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died inchildbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing hermausoleum, the Taj Mahal. |
| 1632 | Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, died. |
| 1674 | Jijabai, mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. Jijabai was a very pious and intelligent woman with great vision for independent kingdom. She inspired Shivaji by telling stories from Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Balaraja. Inspired by her, Shivaji took the Oath of Independence (SWARAJA) in the fort temple of lord Raireshwar in 1645 when he was 17. In Shivaji's impeccable, spotless character and courage, Jijabai's contribution is enormous. |
| 1734 | French troops occupied Philipsburg in the Rhine. |
| 1745 | The American colonies captured Cape Breton Island from Louisbourg, Frank. |
| 1773 | Cucaca, Colombia was founded by Juana Rangel de Cuellar. |
| 1775 | American Revolutionary War-British forces took Bunker Hilloutside of Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1775 | In the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Britis army defeated the Continental Army of Nena America but suffered heavy losses. The Continental Army quickly reorganized itself and the struggle for internal independence continued. |
| 1843 | New Zealand Wars-An armed posse of Europeans set out from Nelson to arrest Ngati Toa chief Te Rauparaha and clashed with Maori,resulting in 26 deaths. |
| 1856 | The Republican Party held its first national convention in Philadelphia. |
| 1858 | Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, the heroine of the Indian independence struggle of 1857, was martyred. |
| 1876 | Great Sioux War-A band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne attacked a United States Army expedition and its Crow and Shoshone allies in the Battle of the Rosebud. |
| 1885 | The Statue of Liberty arrived at New York Harbor. The Statue of Liberty was a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, built by Gustave Eiffel, and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. |
| 1885 | France's gift to the Statue of Liberty arrived at the port of New York. |
| 1885 | Statue of Liberty brought to New York Harbor. |
| 1900 | Boxer Rebellion-Allied naval forces captured the Taku Fortsafter a brief but bloody battle. |
| 1922 | Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral completed the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic. |
| 1933 | The civil disobedience campaign ended. Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is sometimes, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance. |
| 1936 | Heinrich Himmler was appointed chief of the German police. |
| 1940 | The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fell under the occupation of the Soviet Union. The Soviet occupation of the Baltic States covers the period from the Soviet–Baltic mutual assistance pacts in 1939, to their invasion and annexation in 1940, to the mass deportations of 1941. |
| 1940 | Second World War-Britain's worst maritime disaster occurredwhen at least 3, 000 people were killed as a result of the troopship RMS Lancastria's sinking by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. |
| 1944 | Iceland declared independence from Denmark and became a republic. Abolishing the monarchy resulted in little change to the Icelandic constitution. The people of Iceland celebrated the end of the long struggle for total independence and praised Jón Sigurðsson for his early independence movement and Sveinn Björnsson, who became the first president of Iceland. |
| 1950 | Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia signed security pacts. |
| 1961 | The HF-24 Marut supersonic fighter, designed by German engineer Kurt Tank, made its maiden flight. The Hindustan Aeronautics HF-24 Marut was an Indian fighter-bomber aircraft of the 1960s. It was India's first jet aircraft. |
| 1963 | Around 2,000 people rioted in South Vietnam, despite thesigning of the Joint Communique to resolve the ongoing Buddhist crisisone day earlier. |
| 1967 | The People's Republic of China announced a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon. A thermonuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon that uses the energy from a primary nuclear fission reaction to compress and ignite a secondary nuclear fusion reaction. The result is greatly increased explosive power when compared to single-stage fission weapons. |
| 1967 | China became the fourth country in the world to have hydrogen bomb. |
| 1970 | Kidney transplant operation was first performed in Chicago. |
| 1972 | Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices ofthe Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex inWashington, D.C., igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led tothe resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon more than two yearslater. |
| 1981 | In Cairo, Egypt, 14 people were killed in a clash between Muslims and Christians. |
| 1985 | STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launched carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist. STS-51-G was the eighteenth flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the fifth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. The seven-day mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 17, 1985, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on June 24. |
| 1985 | On board Space Shuttle Discovery, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud became the first Arab, the first Muslim, and the first astronaut of royal blood to fly in outer space. |
| 1985 | John Hendricks started the Discovery Channel in the United States. |
| 1987 | With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow became extinct. The dusky seaside sparrow, Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens, was a non-migratory subspecies of the seaside sparrow, found in Florida in the natural salt marshes of Merritt Island and along the St. Johns River. |
| 1991 | The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act, which required that each in habitant of South Africa be classified and registered by race as part of the system of apartheid. |
| 1992 | A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin. START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and Russia on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. |
| 1994 | Following a police chase along Los Angeles freeways and afailed suicide attempt, actor and former American football player O. J.Simpson was arrested for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpsonand her friend Ronald Goldman. |
| 1994 | FIFA World Cup football started in Chicago. |
| 2015 | The gunman killed nine people in a church in South Carolina, USA. |
Famous Birthdays of June 17:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1880 | Carl Van Vechten / Author / United States of America |
| 1989 | Georgios Tofas / Footballer / Cyprus |
| 1915 | Marcel Cadieux / Diplomat / Canada |
| 1942 | Bhagat Singh Koshyari / Politician / India |
| 1969 | Ilya Tsymbalar / Fooballer / Russia |
| 1943 | Burt Rutan / Engineer / United States of America |
| 1964 | Michael Gross / Swimmer / Germany |
| 1810 | Ferdinand Freiligrath / Poet / Germany |
| 1714 | César-François Cassini de Thury / Astronomer / France |
| 1949 | John Craven / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1909 | Ralph E. Winters / Film Editor / Canada |
| 1923 | Arnold S. Relman / Physician / United States of America |
| 1961 | Kōichi Yamadera / Actor / Japan |
| 1902 | Alec Hurwood / Cricketer / Australia |
| 1967 | Dorothea Röschmann / Actress / Germany |
| 1965 | Dara O'Kearney / Runner / Ireland |
| 1920 | Jacob H. Gilbert / Politician / United States of America |
| 1941 | Nicholas C. Handy / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1969 | Paul Tergat / Runner / Kenya |
| 1927 | Martin Böttcher / Composer / Germany |
| 1920 | Peter Le Cheminant / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1888 | Heinz Guderian / General / Germany |
| 1988 | Stephanie Rice / Swimmer / Australia |
| 1800 | William Parsons / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1948 | Karol Sikora / Physician / United Kingdom |
| 1964 | Rinaldo Capello / Racing Car Driver / Italy |
| 1944 | Randy Johnson / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1923 | Elroy Hirsch / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1876 | Edward Anthony Spitzka / Author / United States of America |
| 1957 | Philip Chevron / Singer / Ireland |
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