The May 17th is the 137e Jour of the Année (138e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

4th century

• 352 : Election of Releases like Pape. It is the first to indicate Rome like apostolic seat .

14th century

• 1323 : Guigues VIII, dolphin of Viennese, oldest son of Jean II, wife Isabelle de France, girl of the king Philippe V '' Length ''.

15th century

• 1439 : At the time of the visit with Albi of the dolphin, the future Louis XI, the lord de Gasc, lord of Labastide-Vassals, presented its complaints to him and tried to obtain subsidies to rebuild its castle demolished in 1430, in vain.

17th century

• 1642 : Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve founds City-Marie who is Montreal today.

18th century

• 1756 : George II of Great Britain declares officially the war in France.

• 1791 : James Mackintosh publishes in London its Vindiciae Gallicae , an answer to the Réflexions on the Revolution of France of Edmund Burke, appeared the previous year.

19th century

• 1809 : Napoleon Bonaparte appendix Papal States with the French empire.

• 1814 : The Norway has its first constitution.

• 1846 : The Saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax. exact date of the patent obtained in France the March 21st 1846

• 1886 : Foundation of the Motherwell Football Club, Scottish football club

20th century

• 1928 : Opening of the Olympic IX^ejeux with Amsterdam with the Netherlands.

• 1940 : Pétain is named vice-president of the Council in the government of Paul Reynaud.

• 1943 : The B-17 Memphis Belle is the first bomber to achieve 25 missions on the Europe.

• 1946 : The Houillères are nationalized.

• 1990 : The the World Health Organization removes the homosexuality of the list of the mental diseases, putting an end to more than one century of Homophobie medical.

• 1995 :

• France: Nomination of Jacques Chirac which becomes the 22^ème President of the French Republic and the 5^e president of the 5th Republic.
• Tibet : the Chinese authorities stop with its family, child a 6 year old, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, recognized by the 14^e Dalaï Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, like successor of the 10^e Panchen LAMA.

21e century

• 2004 : The State of the Massachusetts (the United States) legalizes the marriage between two people of the same sex.

• 2005 : First of the world Day of fight against the homophobie.

• 2006 : First of the world Day of the Company of information.

• 2007 :

• France: Nicolas Sarkozy appoints Francois Fillon Prime Minister with the head of the new government .
• Korea: A train coming from South Korea with crosses the line of demarcation with the North Korea.

Births

• 1500 : Frederic II of Mantoue, noble Italian, marquis then duke of Mantoue, marquis de Montferrat († June 28th 1540, 40 years)
• 1682: Bartholomew Roberts (John Roberts) known as Black Baronet, pirates Britannique († February 10th 1722).
• 1741 : Barthelemy Faujas of Saint-Bottom, geologist and vulcanologist French († July 18th 1819)
• 1749: Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination against variola († January 26th 1823)
• 1758: Honore IV of Monaco († February 16th 1819)
• 1817: Thomas Davidson, British paleontologist († October 14th 1885)
• 1836: to sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, astronomer
• 1845: Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet († June 10th 1902)
• 1866: Erik Satie, type-setter and pianist French († July 1st 1925)
• 1867: Georgette Agutte, French painter († September 5th 1922)
• 1897: Odd Hassel, Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1969.
• 1900 : , Type-setter and German Pianist. († January 1st 1985)
• 1900: Rouhollah Khomeini, Dictator and Shiite Religious dignity. († June 4th 1989.
• 1902 : Bobby Jones, American golfor († December 18th 1971)
• 1904: Jean Gabin, French actor († November 15th 1976)
• 1911: Maureen O' Sullivan, actress (Jane main role, woman of Tarzan) († June 28th 1998)
• 1919: Nat King Cole, American musician († February 15th 1965).
• 1920: Raymond Gérôme, actor and Belgian director († February 2nd 2002)
• 1925: Claude Julien, journalist, former editor association of the diplomatic World († May 6th 2005)
• 1925: Ramón Galdón, Spanish painter († March 12th 1987)
• 1928: Idi Amin Hobby-horse, military Ugandan († August 16th 2003), dictator of the Uganda of 1971 with 1979
• 1936: Refusals Hopper, American actor
• 1943: Naceur Ktari, realizer Tunisia N
• 1954: Jean-Marie Bigard, humorist, actor and realizer French
• 1955: Bill Paxton, American actor
• 1956: Ray Charles Léonard, alias Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer
• 1961: Enya, Irish singer
• 1965: the Trent Reznor, leader of the group of industrial music Nine Inch Nails
• 1969: , leader of the group of music of Newfoundland Great Big Sea.
• 1973 : Josh Man, leader of the group Queens off the Old Stone
• 1974: Andrea Corr, singer of the group The Corrs
• 1981: Bastien Lucas, French singer
• 1982: Tony Parker, French player of Basketball

Death

• 1264 : Warcisław III of Poméranie

• 1510: Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter. (° March 1st 1445)
• 1729: Samuel Clarke, British theologist . (° October 11th 1675)
• 1765: Alexis Claude Clairaut, French mathematician (° May 3rd 1713)
• 1829: John Jay, man, diplomat and American lawyer (° December 12th 1745)
• 1838
• Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, politician and diplomat French (° February 2nd 1754)
• Rene Curdled, exploring French (° November 19th 1799)
• 1882: François Chabas, French Egyptologist (° January 2nd 1817)
• 1918: John-Antoine Nau, writer, first prize winner of the Price Goncourt (° November 19th 1860)
• 1944: Felix Swept, colonial administrator and French politician (° December 26th 1884)
• 1960: Jules Supervielle, Poet and a writer French. (° January 16th 1884)
• 1987: Karl Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and Co-prize winner of the Nobel Prize of the economic scenes in 1974 (° December 6th 1898)
• 1996: , one of the largest guitarists of Rhythm and blues (° February 3rd 1935).
• 2005 : Keiiti Aki, seismologist Japan board (° March 3rd 1930)

Celebrations

• Galicia: Day of the Galician Letters: celebration created by the Royal Galician Academy, to pay homage to all the people are characterized by their literary creation in Galician language. It is one bank holiday in Galicia (Spain).
• Norway: national Festival celebrating the first Norwegian Constitution adopted in 1814 with Eidsvoll, a place very close to the capitole with Oslo.
• In forty countries, starting from 2005: “World Day of fight against the Homophobie”

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Andronique and Junia, husband companions of Paul saint.
• Possidius de Calame (5th century), bishop, disciple of saint Augustin d' Hippone.

Catholic saints

• Pascal Baylon (16th century), propagates the devotion with holy the eucharistie.

Orthodoxe saints

• Athanase de Christianopolis (17th century), bishop in the Peloponnese. Also called Athanase the New one.
• Nectary and Théophane de Barlaam († 1544), founder of the monastery to the Meteors.
• Nicolas de Metsovo († 1617), néo-martyr in Épire.

See too

• May 17th in sport
• May 17th in the railroads

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