Thursday, May 17, 2018

History for May 17

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History for May 17 - On-This-Day.com
Edward Jenner 1749, Joseph Norman Lockyer 1836, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 1900
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 Dennis Hopper 1936 - Actor, Sugar Ray Leonard 1956 - Boxer, Enya 1961 - Musician
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 1630 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi saw the belts on Jupiter's surface.

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1756 - Britain declared war on France, beginning the French and Indian War.
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 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded at 70 Wall Street by 24 brokers.
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 1875 - The first Kentucky Derby was run at Louisville, KY.
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 1932 - The U.S. Congress changed the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico."
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 1946 - U.S. President Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
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 1954 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled for school integration in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling declared that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal.
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 1985 - Bobby Ewing died on the season finale of "Dallas" on CBS-TV. He returned the following season.
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