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April 17 Events in History - April 17 Birthdays - April 17 Deaths
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April 17, 1997 John Bell, 115, recieves new pacemaker April 17, 1997 New Jersey Devil Martin Brodeur is 2nd NHL goalie to score in a playoff game April 17, 1995 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11 April 17, 1995 99th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:09:22 April 17, 1994 "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 30 performances April 17, 1994 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 72 performances April 17, 1994 55th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino wins April 17, 1994 Aruba government of Oduber falls April 17, 1994 Jennie Garth weds Dan Clark April 17, 1994 Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship April 17, 1993 Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights April 17, 1993 STS-56 (Discovery) lands April 17, 1991 Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46) April 17, 1991 Railroad workers go on strike in U.S. April 17, 1990 Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die April 17, 1989 18th Boston Women's Marath won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Nor in 2:24:33 April 17, 1989 93rd Boston Marathon won by Abebe Mekonen of Ethiopia in 2:09:06 April 17, 1989 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week April 17, 1989 Polish labor union granted legal status April 17, 1989 Soviet-U.S. agreement allows Soviets to fight U.S. pros April 17, 1988 Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50) April 17, 1988 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic April 17, 1987 Julius Erving becomes 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points April 17, 1987 New York Richard Wilbur appointed as U.S. poet laureate April 17, 1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. April 17, 1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip April 17, 1986 Netherlands and Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651) April 17, 1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove" April 17, 1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage April 17, 1984 Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead April 17, 1983 1st National Coin Week begins April 17, 1983 Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29) April 17, 1983 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters April 17, 1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket April 17, 1983 Lynn Adams wins LPGA Combanks Orlando Golf Classic April 17, 1983 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter April 17, 1983 Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs Rangers Rangers 7-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-1 lead Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals in one Stanley Cup playoff game April 17, 1982 Canada adopts its constitution April 17, 1982 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site April 17, 1981 Isle Potvin's 3 playoff power-play goals tie NHL record vs Oilers April 17, 1981 Ranger's Anders Hedberg is 2nd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot April 17, 1979 Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?," premieres in London April 17, 1978 63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record) April 17, 1978 7th Boston Women's Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Georgia in 2:44:52 April 17, 1978 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:10:13 April 17, 1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden" April 17, 1977 "I Love My Wife" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 864 performances April 17, 1977 Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election April 17, 1977 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament April 17, 1976 NL greatest comeback, trailing 12-1 Phils win 18-16 in 10, Mike Schmidt hits 4 consecutive HRs April 17, 1975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day) April 17, 1975 Penguins 6-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-0 lead April 17, 1974 Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt April 17, 1973 2nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Hansen of CA in 3:05:59 April 17, 1973 77th Boston Marathon won by Jon Anderson of Oreg in 2:16:03 April 17, 1972 1st Boston Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of New York in 3:10:26 April 17, 1972 76th Boston Marathon won by Olavi Suomalainen of Finland in 2:15:39 April 17, 1972 Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed April 17, 1972 Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats April 17, 1971 Egypt, Libya and Syria form federation (FAR) April 17, 1971 People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman April 17, 1970 Apollo 13 returns back safely to Earth April 17, 1970 Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released April 17, 1969 Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons April 17, 1969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed April 17, 1969 Mont Expos Bill Stoneman no-hits Phillies, 7-0 April 17, 1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy April 17, 1969 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert April 17, 1968 "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 72 performances April 17, 1968 A's 1st game in Oakland-Alameda Stadium, lose 4-1 to Baltimore Orioles April 17, 1967 Shortwave Radio New York Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off April 17, 1967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20 April 17, 1966 100th International soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1) April 17, 1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational April 17, 1964 "Cafe Crown" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 3 performances April 17, 1964 "High Spirits" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 375 performances April 17, 1964 1st game at Shea Stadium, New York Mets lose to Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3 April 17, 1964 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base) April 17, 1964 Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world April 17, 1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro April 17, 1961 33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment," Burt Lancaster and Liz Taylor win April 17, 1960 American Samoa sets up a constitutional government April 17, 1960 Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn April 17, 1958 Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens April 17, 1956 Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns April 17, 1956 Kominform disbands April 17, 1956 Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain April 17, 1956 U.S.S.R.'s Cominform (Parliament) dissolves April 17, 1956 Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament April 17, 1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open April 17, 1953 Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 m) HR in Washington D.C.'s Griffith Stadium April 17, 1951 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1st game, he goes 1 for 4 April 17, 1947 Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit April 17, 1946 Syria declares independence from French administration April 17, 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden April 17, 1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Neth April 17, 1945 Mussolono flees from Salo to Molan April 17, 1945 U.S. troops lands in Mindanao April 17, 1943 Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul April 17, 1943 SS-lt-general Jurgen Stoop arrives in Warsaw April 17, 1942 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg April 17, 1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp April 17, 1941 British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis April 17, 1941 Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing) April 17, 1939 Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title April 17, 1939 SN Behrman's "No Time for Comedy," premieres in New York City April 17, 1939 Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact April 17, 1937 Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Petunia Pig, debut April 17, 1935 Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs) April 17, 1934 New Fenway Park opens, Washington Senators beat Red Sox 6-5 April 17, 1933 Chicago Bears win their 1st NFL Game beating New York Giants 23-21 April 17, 1932 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery April 17, 1930 Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR April 17, 1927 Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier April 17, 1925 New York Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery April 17, 1925 Paul Painleve follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier April 17, 1924 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM April 17, 1923 Longest NL opening game, Phillies and Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14 April 17, 1920 American Professional Football Association forms (NFL) April 17, 1912 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep") April 17, 1907 Ellis Island, New York - 11,745 immigrants arrive April 17, 1905 U.S. Supreme Court judges maximum work day unconstitutional April 17, 1900 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession April 17, 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) April 17, 1892 1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1 April 17, 1875 "Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain April 17, 1869 1st pro baseball games-Cin Reds 24, Cin amateurs 15 April 17, 1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination April 17, 1864 Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina April 17, 1864 Bread revolt in Savannah, Georgia April 17, 1864 Grant suspends prisoner-of-war exchanges April 17, 1863 R Grierson's: La Grange, Tennessee to Baton Rouge, Louisiana April 17, 1861 Indianola Texas - "Star of West" taken by Confederacy April 17, 1861 Virginia is 8th state to secede April 17, 1853 Thorbecke government resigns April 17, 1853 U.S. Marine Hospital at Presidio San Francisco forms April 17, 1839 Guatemala forms republic April 17, 1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N April 17, 1817 1st U.S. school for deaf (Hartford, Conn) April 17, 1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships April 17, 1793 Battle of Warsaw April 17, 1758 Francis Williams, 1st U.S. black college graduate, publishes poems April 17, 1747 French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands April 17, 1711 Charles VI Habsburg becomes king of Austria April 17, 1704 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell April 17, 1629 1st commercial fishery established April 17, 1596 Arch duke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais April 17, 1555 Siena surrenders for Spanish troops April 17, 1534 Sir Thomas Moore confined in London Tower April 17, 1524 Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay April 17, 1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated from Roman Catholic Church April 17, 1492 Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies April 17, 1421 Dikes at Dort Holland breaks, 100,000 drown April 17, 858 Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |