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April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (108th in
leap years ). There are 258 days remaining.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum , Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor .
1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II . Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387 ) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts.
1492 - Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices .
1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms , refusing to recant his teachings .
1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
1555 - After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine -Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany .
1797 - Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions to Spanish territories in America.
1861 - American Civil War : Virginia secedes from the Union .
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina .
1865 - Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln .
1895 - The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War , and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province , Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan .
1924 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures , Goldwyn Pictures , and the Louis B. Mayer Company .
1935 - Sun Myung Moon claims to have a revelation from Jesus telling him to complete his mission from almost 2000 years ago.
1937 - Daffy Duck debuts in Warner Bros. ' short Porky's Duck Hunt 1941 - World War II : The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany .
1942 - POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein .
1945 - In Strassfurt , Germany , U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash seizes half a ton of uranium , in an attempt to foil Soviet Union plans to build an atomic bomb .
1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion : A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro .
1961 - Manos Hadjidakis receives an Academy Award in the best music category, for his Song Never on Sunday 1964 - The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair .
1964 - Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
1969 - Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy .
1969 - Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
1970 - Apollo program : The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
1973 - Federal Express delivers its first package.
1975 - Cambodian Civil War ends: The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
1976 - During his unsuccessful re-election bid, U.S. President Gerald Ford appears as himself on Saturday Night Live 1982 - Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II , Queen of Canada .
1984 - Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
1986 - Treaty signed, ending Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly .
1991 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever gaining 17.58 to 3,004.46.
2002 - Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. Air Force F-16s , the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War .
2006 - 10 people were killed and dozens wounded in a suicide attack near the old Central bus station in Tel Aviv .
Births 1278 - Michael IX Palaeologus , co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1320 )
1573 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651 )
1586 - John Ford , English dramatist
1598 - Giovanni Riccioli , Italian astronomer (d. 1671 )
1710 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan , British Freemason (d. 1767 )
1734 - Taksin , King of Thailand (d. 1782 )
1750 - François de Neufchâteau , French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828 )
1794 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius , German botanist (d. 1868 )
1798 - Étienne Bobillier , French mathematician (d. 1740 )
1816 - Thomas Hazlehurst , English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876 )
1833 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay , Belgian composer (d. 1900 )
1837 - J.P. Morgan , American financier and philanthropist (d. 1913 )
1842 - Maurice Rouvier , French statesman (d. 1911 )
1863 - Augustus Edward Hough Love , English mathematician (d. 1940 )
1863 - Constantine P. Cavafy , Greek poet (d. 1933 )
1865 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska , Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (d. 1939 )
1866 - Ernest Starling , British physiologist (d. 1927 )
1882 - Artur Schnabel , Polish pianist (d. 1951 )
1885 - Isak Dinesen , Danish author (d. 1962 )
1890 - Art Acord , American actor and rodeo rider (d. 1931 )
1894 - Nikita Khrushchev , Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971 )
1897 - Thornton Wilder , American dramatist (d. 1975 )
1902 - Jaime Torres Bodet , Mexican writer, politician, and diplomat (d. 1974 )
1903 - Gregor Piatigorsky , Russian cellist (d. 1976 )
1903 - Morgan Taylor , American athlete (d. 1975 )
1914 - George Davis , American art director (d. 1998 )
1915 - Joe Foss , American soldier and politician (d. 2003 )
1916 - Helenio Herrera , French footballer player and manager (d. 1997 )
1917 - Bill Clements , Governor of Texas
1918 - William Holden , American actor (d. 1981 )
1923 - Lindsay Anderson , English film director (d. 1994 )
1923 - Harry Reasoner , American journalist (d. 1991 )
1923 - Solly Hemus , American baseball player
1926 - Gerry McNeil , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004 )
1928 - Cynthia Ozick , American writer
1929 - James Last , German band leader
1930 - Chris Barber , British jazz band leader
1934 - Don Kirshner , American television producer and composer
1935 - Theo Angelopoulos , Greek film director
1938 - Ben Barnes , Lt. Governor of Texas
1940 - Anja Silja , German soprano
1942 - David Bradley , British actor
1944 - L. Scott Caldwell , American actress
1946 - Georges J.F. Kohler , German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1995 )
1947 - Linda Martin , Irish singer
1948 - Jan Hammer , Czech composer
1950 - Bruce McNall , American former NHL team owner
1951 - Olivia Hussey , Argentine-born actress
1952 - Željko Ražnatović , Serbian warlord (d. 2000 )
1954 - Riccardo Patrese , Italian race car driver
1954 - Rowdy Roddy Piper , Canadian professional wrestler
1954 - Michael Sembello , American musician
1955 - Pete Shelley , British musician
1957 - Nick Hornby , English author
1959 - Sean Bean , English actor
1961 - Boomer Esiason , American football player
1963 - Joel Murray , American actor
1964 - Maynard James Keenan , American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle )
1964 - Ken Daneyko , Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Vikram , Indian actor
1967 - Marquis Grissom , American baseball player
1967 - Liz Phair , American musician/songwriter
1967 - Henry Ian Cusick , Peruvian-born Scottish actor
1970 - Redman , American rapper
1972 - Gary Bennett , American baseball player
1972 - Tony Boselli , American football player
1972 - Jennifer Garner , American actress
1972 - Muttiah Muralitharan , Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 - Ruffian , American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1975 )
1972 - Terran Sandwith , Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Brett Maher , Australian basketballer
1974 - Victoria Beckham , English singer
1974 - Mikael Åkerfeldt , Swedish singer (Opeth )
1975 - Gabriel Soto , Mexican actor
1977 - Chad Hedrick , American speed skater
1977 - Sizzla , Jamaican dancehall artist
1978 - Jordan Hill , American singer
1980 - Curtis Woodhouse , English footballer
1981 - Hanna Pakarinen , Finnish singer
1982 - Lee Jun Ki , South Korean actor and model
1982 - Brad Boyes , Canadian hockey player
1983 - Stanislav Chistov , Russian hockey player
Deaths 326 - Alexander of Alexandria , Patriarch of Alexandria
487 - Proclus , Greek philosopher (b. 412 )
617 - Donnán of Eigg , Celtic Christian martyr, patron saint of Eigg
1080 - King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041 )
1427 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403 )
1539 - George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471 )
1574 - Joachim Camerarius , German classical scholar (b. 1500 )
1695 - Sor Juana , Mexican writer
1696 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal , French writer (b. 1626 )
1711 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678 )
1713 - David Hollatz , Pomeranian dogmatician (b. 1648 )
1742 - Arvid Horn , Swedish statesman (b. 1664 )
1761 - Thomas Bayes , English mathematician
1764 - Johann Mattheson , German composer (b. 1681 )
1790 - Benjamin Franklin , American inventor, diplomat, and printer (b. 1706 )
1799 - Richard Jupp , English architect (b. 1728 )
1843 - Samuel Morey , American inventor (b. 1762 )
1873 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy , Russian painter (b. 1783 )
1891 - Alexander Mackenzie , 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822 )
1930 - Alexander Golovin , Russian painter (b. 1863 )
1936 - Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck , Dutch prime minister (b. 1873 )
1941 - Al Bowlly , British dance band vocalist (b. 1899 )
1942 - Jean Perrin , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870 )
1944 - J.T. Hearne English cricketer (b. 1867 )
1954 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu , Romanian communist activist (b. 1900 )
1960 - Eddie Cochran , American musician (b. 1938 )
1967 - Red Allen , American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908 )
1975 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , Indian philosopher (b. 1888 )
1976 - Henrik Dam , Dutch biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895 )
1977 - William Cardinal Conway , Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1913 )
1987 - Cecil Harmsworth King , owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (b. 1901 )
1988 - Louise Nevelson , American sculptor (b. 1900 )
1990 - Ralph Abernathy , American civil rights activist (b. 1936 )
1994 - Roger Wolcott Sperry , American neurobiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1913 )
1995 - Frank E. Resnik , American business executive (b. 1928 )
1997 - Allan Francovich , American documentarian
1997 - Piet Hein , Danish scientist and poet (b. 1905 )
1998 - Linda McCartney , American-born wife of Paul McCartney (b. 1941 )
2003 - Robert Atkins , American dietician (b. 1930 )
2003 - Paul Getty , American-born philanthropist (b. 1932 )
2003 - Earl King , American musician and songwriter (b. 1934 )
2003 - Yiannis Latsis , Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1910 )
2004 - Edmond Pidoux , Swiss writer (b. 1908 )
2004 - Soundarya , Indian actress (b. 1971 )
Holidays and observances
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