Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 17
This is a list of selected May 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Anne of Denmark in 1612 -
The sinking of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany
Ineligible
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stock brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement to establish the New York Stock Exchange
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Norwegian Constituent Assembly .
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| 1865 – The International Telecommunication Union, an international organization that standardizes and regulates international radio and telecommunications, was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris. | needs 3rd-party sources and more footnotes |
| 1875 – The American Thoroughbred racehorse Aristides won the first running of the Kentucky Derby. | refimprove |
Boers .
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| 1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon began in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that resulted in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- Queen consort of Scotland in the abbey church at Holyrood Palace.
- 1914 – Albania officially recognized the area of Northern Epirus as an autonomous region within the Albanian state, which was never established due to World War I.
- President of the French Republic.
- 2006 – The U.S. Navy deliberately sank the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany, the largest vessel ever sunk to create an artificial reef.
Notes
- Plessy v. Ferguson appears on May 18, so Brown v. Board of Education should not appear the same year (if possible) for variety's sake
- mission known as Ville-Marie, which eventually grew into the city of Montreal.
- 1902 – The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.
- public schoolsbecause "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal".
- internal conflict in Peru.
- President of Lithuania, receiving 68.18 percent of the vote.