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==Events== *1395 – Battle of Rovine, Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army. *1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. *1536 – George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason. *1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage. *1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland. *1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal. *1673 – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River. *1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec. *1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement. *1805 – Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt. *1808 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire. *1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian. * 1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and Crown Prince Christian Frederick of Denmark is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly. *1849 – A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground. *1859 – Members of the Melbourne Football Club codified the first rules of Australian rules football. *1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes ''Cantares Gallegos'', the first book in the Galician language. *1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. *1869 – Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War. *1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby. *1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking. *1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer. *1914 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty. *1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls. *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 – World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams. *1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas''. *1967 – Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt. *1969 – Venera program: Soviet ''Venera 6'' begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure. *1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat ''Ra II'' to sail the Atlantic Ocean. *1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate. *1974 – The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. It is the deadliest attack of the Troubles and the deadliest terrorist attack in the Republic's history. There are allegations that British state forces were involved. * 1974 – Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall. *1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations. * 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. * 1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. *1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture. *1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship , killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew. *1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases. *1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests. *1994 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections. *1995 – Shawn Nelson steals a tank from a military installation and goes on a rampage in San Diego resulting in a 25-minute police chase. Nelson is killed by an officer after the tank got stuck on a concrete barrier and tried to break free. *1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo. *2000 – Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen *2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts. *2006 – The aircraft carrier is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef. *2007 – Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953. *2013 – Two Metro-North commuter trains collide near Bridgeport, Connecticut injuring at least 72 people. *2014 – A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people. *2015 – At least 9 people are killed and 18 injured, some by law enforcement and others in gunfire exchanges, in a shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco, Texas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「May 17」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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