383 Historic Events for June 17
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| 1895 |
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US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
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| 1897 |
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William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti
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| 1898 |
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US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
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| 1898 |
Birth |
Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Hermann Reuter, composer
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Martin Bormann, propoganda minister (Hitler)
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Michail Swetlow, writer
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| 1904 |
Birth |
Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist
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| 1904 |
Birth |
Ralph Bellamy, Chicago, actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places)
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| 1905 |
Death |
M ximo G¢mez, Cuban general, dies at 68
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Thomas G Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
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| 1906 |
Death |
William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
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| 1906 |
Death |
Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies
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| 1908 |
Birth |
Frank Sully, St Louis MO, actor (Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief)
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| 1908 |
Birth |
Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/Writer
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| 1908 |
Birth |
John Verrall, composer
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Herbert Owen Reed, composer
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| 1910 |
Death |
Lady Mosley, biographer, dies
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Red Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
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| 1911 |
Event |
Belgium govt of De Broqueville forms
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Wessel Couzijn, sculptor/cartoonist (Auschwitz-monument)
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Don Gillis, Cameron Missouri, composer (Symphony #5«)
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Felix Hartlaub, writer
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| 1914 |
Birth |
John R Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall)
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| 1915 |
Event |
League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
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