17 Aprile

The **17t o Aprile** is the 107t day o the year (108t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 258 days ti come.

## Events

* 1521 - Martin Luther speaks tae the assembly at the Diet o Worms.
* 1861 - Virginie secedes frae the Unitit States.
* 1907 - The Ellis Island Immigration Centre in New York Ceety processes 11,747 fowk in a single day.
* 1912 - Roushie troops shuit strikin gowdfield wirkers in Northeastren Siberie, killin at least 50 fowk.
* 1937 - The cartoon chairacter Daffy Duck maks his debut.
* 1941 - Warld War II: The Kinrick o Yugoslavie surrenders tae Germany.
* 1946 - Sirie gains full unthirldom frae Fraunce.
* 1949 - At midnicht, 26 Erse coonties offeecially leave the Breetish Commonweel, creatin the Republic o Ireland.
* 1951 - The Peak District in North-Central Ingland becomes the first Naitional Pairk in the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1970 - Apollo 13 returns safely tae the yird.
* 1975 - Pol Pot taks ower in Cambodie.
* 1982 - Canadae gets full legislative unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 2013 - New Zealand's pairlament approves the legalisation o same-sex mairage.
* 2013 - The funeral o Margaret Thatcher taks place in Lunnon.
* 2013 - A fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, kills 15 fowk.
* 2019 - Umwhile Peruvian Preses Alan Garcia commits suicide bi gunshot as polis prepare tae arrest him on corruption chairges.
* 2019 - The Varsity o Aiberdeen remuives an honorar degree frae Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah o Brunei, ower the introduction o the daith penalty for gay sex in the kintra.
* 2019 - A bus cairryin German tourists crashes in Madeira, Portugal, killin 29 fowk.

## Births

* 1497 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spaingie conquistador an govrenor o Chile (d. 1553)
* 1676 - Frederick I o Swaden (d. 1751)
* 1699 - Robert Blair, Scots poet (d. 1746)
* 1710 - Henry Erskine, 10t Yerl o Buchan, Scots peer (d. 1767)
* 1883 - Keith Henderson, Scots penter (d. 1982)
* 1885 - Karen Blixen, Dens writer (d. 1962)
* 1909 - Alain Poher, French politeecian (d. 1996)
* 1912 - Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress an sangster (d. 2013)
* 1916 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politeecian (d. 2000)
* 1918 - William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
* 1929 - James Last, German muisicker (d. 2015)
* 1951 - Horst Hrubesch, German fitbawer
* 1952 - Joe Alaskey, American actor (d. 2016)
* 1957 - Nick Hornby, Inglis writer
* 1959 - Sean Bean, Inglis actor
* 1959 - Peter Doig, Scots penter
* 1972 - Jennifer Garner, American actress
* 1974 - Victoria Beckham, Inglis sangster
* 1978 - David Murdoch, Scots curler
* 1978 - Jason White, Scots rugby union player
* 1985 - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
* 1985 - Rooney Mara, American actress
* 1986 - Jamie MacDonald, Scots fitbawer
* 1986 - Romain Grosjean, Swiss-French racin driver
* 1992 - Shkodran Mustafi, German fitbawer

## Deeths
* 1720 - James Drummond, 2nt Duke o Perth, Scots nobleman (b. 1674)
* 1790 - Benjamin Franklin, American polymath (b. 1706)
* 1892 - Alexander Mackenzie, Scots-born Prime meenister o Canadae (b. 1822)
* 1913 - Agnes McLaren, Scots medicinar (b. 1837)
* 1932 - Patrick Geddes, Scots biologist, sociologist, geografer, philanthropist an toun planner (b. 1854)
* 1942 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French pheesicist (d. 1870)
* 1975 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Preses o Indie (b. 1888)
* 1976 - Henrik Dam, Dens chemist (b. 1895)
* 1998 - Linda McCartney, American designer an photographer (b. 1941)
* 2014 - Karpal Singh, Malaysie politeecian (b. 1940)
* 2014 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombie writer (b. 1927)
* 2015 - Francis George, American cardinal (b. 1937)
* 2018 - Barbara Bush, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1925)
* 2019 - Alan Garcia, Preses o Peru (b. 1949)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o Sirie
* Flag Day (American Samoa)
* Weemen's Day (Gabon)