May 17 Events in History
| 2011 | The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show is recorded in Chicago, Illinois; many celebrities attend the star-studded event |
| 2011 | The oldest panda in the world, Ming Ming, dies at the age of 34 in Guangdong, China |
| 2010 | Iceland's volcano causes Britain's two busiest airports to close in addition to Dublin Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol |
| 1998 | 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship |
| 1997 | 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54 |
| 1997 | Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London |
| 1997 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom |
| 1996 | Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe |
| 1996 | Habib and Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics vs. Worcs |
| 1994 | Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election |
| 1993 | Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled |
| 1992 | 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King |
| 1992 | Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone and Fisk) |
| 1991 | Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe |
| 1990 | Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI |
| 1990 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71 |
| 1990 | European court rules pension rights for both men and women |
| 1990 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann |
| 1989 | Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000! |
| 1989 | Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart |
| 1989 | Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa |
| 1989 | Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" auctioned for $825M |
| 1987 | "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 102 performances |
| 1987 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
| 1987 | USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die |
| 1986 | "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the U.K. pop chart |
| 1986 | 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8 |
| 1985 | Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska |
| 1984 | Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning |
| 1984 | Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA |
| 1983 | Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty |
| 1983 | Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games |
| 1981 | "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 14 performances |
| 1981 | Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff |
| 1981 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
| 1980 | 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2 |
| 1980 | Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours |
| 1980 | Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured |
| 1980 | Paul and Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live |
| 1979 | 12 degrees F, on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record) |
| 1979 | Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation |
| 1979 | Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 home runs |
| 1978 | Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run |
| 1977 | Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel |
| 1976 | 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson and M Learned |
| 1976 | Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed |
| 1975 | "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79 |
| 1975 | 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4 |
| 1975 | 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love" |
| 1975 | Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches |
| 1975 | NBC paid $5M for rights to show 'Gone with the Wind' one time |
| 1974 | Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels |
| 1974 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet |
| 1973 | "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 21 performances |
| 1973 | Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run |
| 1973 | Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings |
| 1973 | Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" |
| 1973 | U.S. performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle, Colorado |
| 1973 | Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's |
| 1972 | Netherlands and China exchange ambassadors |
| 1972 | Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London |
| 1971 | Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway |
| 1971 | Washington State bans s*x discrimination |
| 1970 | Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits |
| 1970 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament |
| 1970 | Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft |
| 1969 | "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman and The Agents hits #92 |
| 1969 | 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6 |
| 1969 | Baltimore, Cleveland and Pittsburgh agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL |
| 1969 | Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus |
| 1968 | European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite |
| 1968 | Frank Howard belts record 8th home run in 5th straight game |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | Dylan's 1965 U.K. Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back" |
| 1966 | KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
| 1963 | Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in New York, to become WWF champ |
| 1963 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | Marin County withdraws from BART district |
| 1961 | Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers |
| 1960 | 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California |
| 1959 | Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122 |
| 1958 | 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2 |
| 1958 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria |
| 1957 | Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) |
| 1955 | Dutch Government of Drees resigns |
| 1954 | Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision |
| 1954 | School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education |
| 1953 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open |
| 1953 | Yankees and Browns use record 41 players in a game |
| 1952 | 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4 |
| 1949 | British government recognizes Republic of Ireland |
| 1948 | Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha and Telel-Kadi |
| 1948 | Soviet Union recognized Israel |
| 1947 | "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 148 performances |
| 1946 | KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections |
| 1946 | President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike |
| 1945 | 2 U.S. P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu |
| 1944 | Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java |
| 1944 | Chinese/U.S. armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma |
| 1944 | General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th |
| 1944 | Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea |
| 1942 | Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler |
| 1941 | Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack |
| 1940 | Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France |
| 1940 | Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance |
| 1939 | 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball |
| 1938 | Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy |
| 1938 | Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network |
| 1937 | Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier |
| 1932 | Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico" |
| 1930 | 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6 |
| 1928 | 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam |
| 1927 | Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings |
| 1926 | Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton |
| 1926 | German government of Marx takes power |
| 1925 | Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit |
| 1924 | 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2 |
| 1923 | Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC) |
| 1921 | Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union |
| 1921 | President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show |
| 1920 | 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol |
| 1920 | 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij) |
| 1916 | British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced |
| 1915 | 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58 |
| 1915 | Last liberal British government of Asquith falls |
| 1915 | National Baptist Convention chartered |
| 1911 | 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51 |
| 1910 | Canada sets the designs for the 1 cent -50 cent coins |
| 1909 | White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks |
| 1906 | Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic |
| 1905 | Waseda University of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball |
| 1904 | Maurice Ravel's "Sheherazade," premieres in Paris |
| 1903 | Cleveland Indians beat New York Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio |
| 1900 | British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) |
| 1899 | Victoria and Albert Museum foundation laid England |
| 1898 | Camp Merritt forms in Presidio |
| 1895 | W G Grace completes his 100th 100 vs. Somerset at Bristol |
| 1894 | 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49 |
| 1890 | Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in New York City |
| 1890 | Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London |
| 1890 | Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome |
| 1884 | Alaska becomes a U.S. territory |
| 1883 | Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha |
| 1881 | 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40 |
| 1881 | Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington D.C. |
| 1881 | Revised version of New Testament |
| 1877 | Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm |
| 1876 | 7th U.S. Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft. Lincoln |
| 1875 | 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75 |
| 1872 | Bohemian Club incorporated |
| 1871 | Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches |
| 1864 | Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat |
| 1863 | Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi |
| 1862 | Battle of Princeton, West Virginia, ends, about 128 casualities |
| 1853 | Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election |
| 1849 | Fire destroy Centrum in St. Louis Missouri |
| 1848 | Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns |
| 1846 | Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax |
| 1845 | Rubber band patents |
| 1814 | Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day) |
| 1814 | Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll |
| 1809 | Papal States annexed by France |
| 1804 | Lewis and Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase |
| 1803 | John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine |
| 1794 | Hard frost in southern New England |
| 1792 | 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street |
| 1787 | English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes |
| 1756 | Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French and Indian War) |
| 1750 | Tax revolt in Gorinchem |
| 1744 | French army takes Austrian Netherlands |
| 1742 | Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians |
| 1733 | England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions |
| 1712 | Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands" |
| 1678 | King Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty |
| 1673 | Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi |
| 1672 | Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada) |
| 1648 | Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria |
| 1631 | Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg |
| 1630 | Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface |
| 1620 | 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey) |
| 1579 | Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian |
| 1544 | Scottish earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII |
| 1536 | Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed |
| 1527 | Panfilo de Narvaez departs to explore Florida |
| 1525 | Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels |
| 884 | St. Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 352 | Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I |
| 218 |
7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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