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Monday, April 17, 2017

Today in History

858
Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
1492
Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies.
1524
Present-day New York Harbor is discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano.
1535
Antonio Mendoza is appointed first viceroy of New Spain.
1758
Frances Williams, the first African-American to graduate from a college in the western hemisphere, publishes a collection of Latin poems.
1808
Bayonne Decree by Napoleon Bonaparte of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.
1824
Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54′ 40′.
1861
Virginia becomes the eighth state to secede from the Union.
1864
General Ulysses Grant bans the trading of prisoners.
1865
Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination.
1875
The game “snooker” is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain.
1895
China and Japan sign peace treaty of Shimonoseki.
1929
Baseball player Babe Ruth and Claire Hodgson, a former member of the Ziegfeld Follies, get married.
1946
The last French troops leave Syria.
1947
Jackie Robinson bunts for his first major league hit.
1961
Some 1,400 Cuban exiles attack the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
1964
Jerrie Mock becomes first woman to fly solo around the world.
1969
Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1970
Apollo 13–originally scheduled to land on the moon–lands back safely on Earth after an accident.
1975
Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.
1983
In Warsaw, police rout 1,000 Solidarity supporters.

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