What are the important events that happened on June 17? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 17: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 17 is the 169^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 197 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 4, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,643,040 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontaenneagon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 226 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,196 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 17 Historical Events

• 1497 –
  Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
• 1565 –
  Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
• 1876 –
  Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
• 1933 –
  Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
• 1953 –
  East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• 1960 –
  The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 e6acre of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
• 1961 –
  The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
• 1981 –
  Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: In the Hyatt Regency Hotel the 2nd and 4th floor walkways collapse crushing 144 people to death, this was the worst structural failure in the United States.
• 1987 –
  With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
• 1994 –
  Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Who were born on June 17?

• 1867 –
  Flora Finch, British-American silent-film comedienne (d. 1940)
• 1933 –
  Harry Browne, American writer and investment analyst (d. 2006)
• 1947 –
  George S. Clinton, American composer and musician
• 1948 –
  Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1964 –
  Michael Groß, German swimmer
• 1965 –
  Dermontti Dawson, American football player
• 1968 –
  Minoru Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1979 –
  Nick Rimando, American footballer
• 1983 –
  Lee Ryan, British singer (Blue)
• 1990 –
  Jordan Henderson, English footballer

Who died on June 17?

• 900 –
  Fulk the Venerable, Archbishop of Rheims (birth year unknown)
• 1694 –
  Philip Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
• 1696 –
  King John III Sobieski of Poland (b. 1629)
• 1740 –
  Sir William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
• 1839 –
  Lord William Bentinck, British soldier, Governor-General of India (b. 1774)
• 1979 –
  Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (b. 1888)
• 1985 –
  John Boulting, English filmmaker (b. 1913)
• 1987 –
  Dick Howser, American baseball player and manager (b. 1936)
• 1999 –
  Basil Hume, English Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster (b. 1923)
• 2007 –
  Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (b. 1933)