17 Mey

The 17t o Mey is the 137t day o the year (138t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 228 days ti come.

 Events 
 1590 - Anne o Denmark is crouned Queen o Scots.
 1724 - Northeast Iceland's Viti crater is creatit bi the eruption o the Krafla volcanae.
 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
 1809 - Napoleon I orders the annexation o the Papal States tae Fraunce.
 1814 - Norawa's Constitution is signed.
 1860 - TSV 1860 Munich, Munich's auldest fitbaw club, is foondit.
 1861 - James Clerk Maxwell presents the first colour photograph, o a Tartan ribbon, tae the Ryal Institution.
 1884 - The Department o Alaska is renamed the Destrict o Alaska.
 1915 - The Breetish Leeberal Govrenment unner H. H. Asquith faws.
 1928 - The 1928 Simmer Olympics in Amsterdam begin.
 1940 - Warld War II: Nazi Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
 1943 - Warld War II: The RAF carries oot the "Dambuster" raids in Germany.
 1970 - Thor Heyerdahl leaves Morocco on his boat "Ra II" across the Atlantic Ocean.
 1974 - The Ulster Volunteer Force detonates bombs in Dublin an Monaghan, Republic o Ireland, killin 33 fowk.
 1995 - Mayor o Paris Jacques Chirac becomes Preses o Fraunce.
 1997 - Zaire is renamed the Democratic Republic o the Congo.
 2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first US state tae legalise same-sex mairage.
 2010 - Portugal legalises same-sex mairage.
 2011 - Queen Elizabeth II stairts a historic state visit tae the Republic o Ireland.
 2014 - St. Johnstone F.C. wins its first Scottish Cup.
 2017 - Enda Kenny propales his upcomin demission as Taoiseach o the Republic o Ireland.
 2018 - Quim Torra is sworn in as Preses o Catalonie.
 Births 
 1749 - Edward Jenner, Inglis physeecian (d. 1823)
 1845 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (d. 1902)
 1866 - Erik Satie, French componer (d. 1925)
 1870 - James Dunlop, Scots fitbawer (d. 1892)
 1886 - Alfonso XIII o Spain (d. 1941)
 1918 - Birgit Nilsson, Swadish soprano (d. 2005)
 1926 - David Ogilvy, 13t Yerl o Airlie, Scots peer
 1936 - Dennis Hopper, American actor (d. 2010)
 1944 - Jesse Winchester, American sangster (d. 2014)
 1948 - Dick Gaughan, Scots muisicker, sangster, an sangwriter
 1951 - Simon Hughes, Inglis politeecian
 1955 - Bill Paxton, American actor (d. 2017)
 1961 - Enya, Erse sangster
 1962 - Alan Johnston, Scots jurnalist
 1962 - Craig Ferguson, Scots-American comedian, actor an telly host
 1967 - Mohamed Nasheed, umwhile Preses o the Maldives
 1971 - Queen Maxima o the Netherlands
 1974 - Andrea Corr, Erse fowk-pop sangster
 1991 - Johanna Konta, Australie-born Breetish tennis player

 Daiths 
 1510 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian penter (b. 1445)
 1727 - Catherine I o Roushie (b. 1684)
 1810 - Robert Tannahill, Scots poet (b. 1774)
 1839 - Archibald Alison, Scots Episcopalian priest an essayist (b. 1757)
 1858 - Ebenezer Henderson, Scots meenister an meesionar (b. 1784)
 1870 - David Octavius Hill, Scots penter an fotografer (b. 1802)
 1875 - John C. Breckinridge, American politeecian (b. 1821)
 1935 - Paul Dukas, French componer (b. 1865)
 2004 - Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
 2012 - Donna Summer, American sangster (b. 1948)
 2013 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine military leader (b. 1925)
 2014 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist an immunologist (b. 1929)
 2017 - Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politeecian, First Meenister o Wales (b. 1939)
 2017 - Chris Cornell, American sangster an muisicker (b. 1964)

 Halidays 
 Constitution Day (naitional day o Norawa)
 Constitution Day (Nauru)
 Airmy Day (Argentinae)
 Internaitional Day Against Homophobie, Transphobie an Biphobie

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