June 17

June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims California for England
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Bunker Hill is fought
1776 - American invasion of Quebec ends
1856 - The United States Republican Party holds its first political convention, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (they will eventually nominate John C. Fremont as their first Presidential candidate)
1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor
1903 - Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage
1930 - President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law
1944 - Iceland becomes independent
1953 - Workers Uprising in East Germany
1972 - Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee
1976 - China tests its first hydrogen bomb
1982 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London
1994 - O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife and a friend of hers