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The June 17th is the 168e Jour of the Année (169e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

334 : Law of Constantin I {{er}} on the supervision of the widows and the orphans.
1081 : The Normands led by Robert Guiscard invade the Balkans and are in front of Dyrrachium (Durazzo), in Dalmatie, which they will occupy until in 1085.
1317 : Alain Gonthier, is named bishop of Saint-Malo. It will remain it until its nomination like bishop of Quimper in 1333.
1789 : The General states, on proposal of Sieyès, are transformed into National Assembly.

1923 : Dedication of the Notre-Dame Church of Raincy, monument emblematic of the Modern architecture, built by the brothers Gustave and Auguste Perret.
1940 :

Towards 15:30, the ship Lancastria , charged of more than: 7,000 soldiers and civilians, is run by the Luftwaffe with broad of the Evens close to Saint-Nazaire.
the Pétain Marshal invites to cease the combat and requires the Armistice (signed the June 22nd)

1944: Proclamation with Thingvellir of the independence of the Republic of Iceland - up to that point attached to the kingdom of Denmark - the day of the 133e birthday of the birth of Jón Sigurðsson, the chief of the Icelandic pacifist movement.
1953 : Working riot in East Germany against the policy followed by the SED, violently repressed by the Soviet army.
1973 : The Olympique Lyonese gains finally the Coupe de France with the Parc of the Princes by beating FC Nantes 2-1 thanks to goals of Dobrivoje Trivic and Bernard Lacombe.
1997 : Creation of the Mouv', the radio young person of Radio France.

2002 : With the Quebec, election of three deputies of the democratic Action of Quebec to the National Assembly of Quebec
2007: legislative Elections in France, the UMP preserves the absolute majority at the National Assembly.

1239 : Edouard I {{er}} of England, king of England († 1307)
1607: François III of Rethel, noble French, duke of Rethel by courtesy († October 13rd 1622, 16 years)
1682: Charles XII († 1718), king of Sweden of 1697 with 1718
1714: César-François Cassini, French astronomer
1811: Jón Sigurðsson, chief of the pacifist movement Icelandic. († December 7th 1879).
1818 : Charles Gounod, type-setter French
1832: Sir William Crookes, British inventor
1882: Igor Stravinski, Russian type-setter
1888: Jacow Trachtenberg, inventor of the method éponyme of mental calculation
1898:

1025 : Boleslas I {{er}} Valiant the, king de Pologne
1501: Jan I Olbracht, king of Poland (° 1459)
1565: Yoshiteru Ashikaga, Japanese shogun (° March 31st 1536, 29 years)
1631: Arjumand Bânu Begam, for which her husband Shah Jahan makes build the mausoleum of the Taj Mahal
1696: Jean III Sobieski, king of Poland (° August 17th 1629)
1795: Amateur-Jerome the Arm of the Forging mills of Boishardy, military French and chief Chouan (° October 13rd 1762)
1863: Wolfred Nelson, mayor of Montreal
1939: Eugen Weidmann, criminal German, the last condemned to dead guillotine as a public in France (° 1908)
1950: Jules Tissot, French biologist
1968: Cassandre, graphic designer-poster artist
1989: S. David Griggs, American astronaut (° September 7th 1939)
1993: Satoshi Miyazaki, instructor chief of the JKA Belgium.
1996 : Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher
2006: Abdoul-Khalim Saïdoullaïev, president autoproclamé tchéchéne

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