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Day Of The Week: May 17
May 17, 2025 is the 137th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 228 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 17
- 1673 –Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
- 1809 –Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
- 1902 –Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
- 1914 –The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
- 1939 –The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States’ first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
- 1974 –Dublin and Monaghan bombings: Thirty-three civilians are killed when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explodes car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.
- 1983 –Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
- 1983 –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.
- 1992 –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, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.
Who were born on May 17?
- 1706 –Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (d. 1780)
- 1768 –Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)
- 1821 –Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897)
- 1895 –Saul Adler FRS, Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (d. 1966)
- 1918 –A. C. Lyles, American film producer
- 1939 –Gary Paulsen, American author
- 1971 –Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
- 1974 –Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
- 1981 –Beñat Albizuri, Spanish cyclist
- 1989 –Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
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