History Events on May 17

Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army.

#Battle_of_Rovine

Emperor Napoleon I orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.

#Napoleon

The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.

#Same-sex_marriage

The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.

#United_States_Department_of_Energy

The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.

#The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz

Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

#North_Korea

The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.

#World_Health_Organization

Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.

#Malawi

Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.

#Empire_of_Japan

Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

#Watergate_scandal

Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve (1612-1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.

#Paul_de_Chomedey,_Sieur_de_Maisonneuve

The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.

#Protocol_of_Corfu

Iran-Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.

#Iran-Iraq_War

Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.

#Rosalía_de_Castro

Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.

#Anne_of_Denmark

Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.

#Aristides_(horse)

Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.

#Six-Day_War

General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.

#Chun_Doo-hwan

The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.

#The_Troubles

The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.

#USS_Oriskany_(CV-34)

Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.

#Military_occupation

Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.

#Louis_Jolliet

Muhammad Ali becomes W?li of Egypt.

#Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt

Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

#Lebanon

Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.

#Los_Angeles_Police_Department

Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.

#Vidkun_Quisling

A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.

#2014_Lao_People's_Liberation_Army_Air_Force_An-74_crash

Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's in San Jose, California.

#Nolan_Bushnell

World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.

#World_War_II

The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.

#International_Telecommunication_Union

Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.

#Charles,_Prince_of_Wales

Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.

#Second_Boer_War

Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, hundreds of injuries, many disappearances, and more than 3,500 arrests.

#Black_May_(1992)

The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.

#New_York_Stock_Exchange

Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen

Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.

On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in Chuschi (a town in Ayacucho), starting the Internal conflict in Peru.

Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.

The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

World War II: Dambuster Raids commence by No. 617 Squadron RAF.

The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.

The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.

Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

Members of the Melbourne Football Club codified the first rules of Australian rules football.

The Constitution of Norway is signed and Crown Prince Christian Frederick of Denmark is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage is annulled.

George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.