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Disasters More than 16,000 people remain isolated and 3,350 are waiting to return to their homes due to continued flooding on the Mid North Coast of the Australian state of New South Wales. (Sydney Morning Herald) International relations The U.N. Human Rights Council issues its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people. (AP via Forbes) Law and crime An ...
June 17 is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) ... President of Uruguay (d. 2011) 1929 – Bud Collins, American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2016)
June 17: Icelandic National Day 1579 – Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California , naming it New Albion and claiming it for England . 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal , wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan , died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal (pictured) .
Tropical Storm Alberto was the first tropical cyclone of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season.Forming on June 10 in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, the storm moved generally to the north, reaching a maximum intensity of 70 mph (110 km/h) before weakening and moving ashore in the Big Bend area of Florida on June 13.
Disasters An explosion at an oil storage tank in Gibraltar closes the port and injures workers and cruise ship passengers. (Gibraltar Chronicle) Haitian officials stand by their own death and homeless toll figures as the U.S. government claims fewer people were affected by last year's earthquake than previously believed. (BBC) A United Nations nuclear safety team looking into the Fukushima ...
Getty Images Memorial Day is one of those tricky holidays that falls on a different date from year to year, but unlike Easter, which jumps all over the spring, Memorial Day is always on the last ...
On this day in 2011, the movement that became known as Occupy Wall Street started in New York City. Other Events on September 17th: 1862: The important Civil War Battle of Antietam took place in ...
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