May 17
1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.
1829 - John Jay, American statesman and first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, died at age 83.
1938 - NBC aired the "Information, Please!" quiz show on the radio for the first time.
1940 - The Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium during World War II.
1946 - President Harry S. Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1954 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown vs. Board of Education that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
1973 - Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina Sen. Sam Ervin.
1980 - Rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating a black man.
1987 - An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62; Iraq and U.S. officials called the attack a mistake and Iraq paid more than $27 million in compensation.
1992 - Orchestra leader Lawrence Welk died at age 89.
1996 - President Bill Clinton signed "Megan's Law", a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in.
1997 - Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1999 - Labor Party leader Ehud Barak unseated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli elections.
2000 - Two former Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four black girls.
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter ended a historic visit to Cuba sharply at odds with the Bush administration over how to deal with Fidel Castro, saying limits on tourism and trade often hurt Americans more than Cubans.
2004 - In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that young people serving life prison terms should have "a meaningful opportunity to obtain release" provided they didn't kill their victims.
2011 - Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement confirming a Los Angeles Times report that he had fathered a child with a woman on his household staff more than a decade earlier.
2011 - Queen Elizabeth II began the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland, a four-day trip to highlight strong Anglo-Irish relations and the success of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
2015 - A shootout erupted between bikers and police outside a restaurant in Waco, Texas, leaving nine of the bikers dead and 20 people injured.
2016 - Federal investigators concluded that a speeding Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia in May 2015, killing eight people, most likely ran off the rails because the engineer was distracted by word of a nearby commuter train getting hit by a rock.
2017 - The Justice Department appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the 2016 Donald Trump campaign.
Birthdays
27 - Justin Martin (actor)
30 - Samantha Browne-Walters (actress)
31 - Kree Harrison (singer)
31 - Leven Rambin (actress)
33 - Nikki Reed (actress)
33 - Karrueche Tran (model)
35 - Tahj Mowry (actor)
36 - Matt Ryan (football player)
38 - Ginger Gonzaga (actress)
39 - Tony Parker (basketball player)
43 - Kat Foster (actress)
45 - Kandi Burruss (actress)
45 - Rochelle Aytes (actress)
47 - Andrea Corr (singer)
48 - Sasha Alexander (actress)
51 - Jordan Knight (singer)
56 - Paige Turco (actress)
57 - David Eigenberg (actor)
59 - Craig Ferguson (actor/comedian)
60 - Enya (singer)
61 - Simon Fuller (producer/TV personality)
62 - Jim Nantz (sportscaster)
65 - Bob Saget (actor/comedian)
65 - Sugar Ray Leonard (boxer)
68 - Kathleen Sullivan (actress)
81 - Peter Gerety (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 17
1875 - The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
1927 - The Chicago Cubs beat the Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings.
1953 - The New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians set a record when they used 41 players in a game.
1969 - The NFL's Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to move from the NFC to the AFC.
1970 - Hank Aaron became the ninth player in major league history to record 3,000 career hits.
1979 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Chicago Cubs 23-22 in a game that saw 50 hits and 11 home runs.
1983 - The New York Islanders sweep the Edmonton Oilers to win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup.
1998 - David Wells of the New York Yankees threw the 13th perfect game in modern major league history in a 4-0 win over the Minnesota Twins.
2018 - Michigan State University announces it will pay $500 million in claims to 300 survivors of sexual abuse involving Larry Nassar.
2019 - Brooks Koepka fires a 65 (-5) to set a new record for lowest 36-hole score of 128 (-12) in a golf major at the PGA Championship at Bethpage State Park; his seven stroke lead is a 36-hole tournament record.
2020 - Michael Jordan's autographed Air Nike 1s trainers from 1985 sell for a record $560,000 in an online auction.
1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.
1829 - John Jay, American statesman and first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, died at age 83.
1938 - NBC aired the "Information, Please!" quiz show on the radio for the first time.
1940 - The Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium during World War II.
1946 - President Harry S. Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1954 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown vs. Board of Education that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
1973 - Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina Sen. Sam Ervin.
1980 - Rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating a black man.
1987 - An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62; Iraq and U.S. officials called the attack a mistake and Iraq paid more than $27 million in compensation.
1992 - Orchestra leader Lawrence Welk died at age 89.
1996 - President Bill Clinton signed "Megan's Law", a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in.
1997 - Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1999 - Labor Party leader Ehud Barak unseated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli elections.
2000 - Two former Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four black girls.
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter ended a historic visit to Cuba sharply at odds with the Bush administration over how to deal with Fidel Castro, saying limits on tourism and trade often hurt Americans more than Cubans.
2004 - In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that young people serving life prison terms should have "a meaningful opportunity to obtain release" provided they didn't kill their victims.
2011 - Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement confirming a Los Angeles Times report that he had fathered a child with a woman on his household staff more than a decade earlier.
2011 - Queen Elizabeth II began the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland, a four-day trip to highlight strong Anglo-Irish relations and the success of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
2015 - A shootout erupted between bikers and police outside a restaurant in Waco, Texas, leaving nine of the bikers dead and 20 people injured.
2016 - Federal investigators concluded that a speeding Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia in May 2015, killing eight people, most likely ran off the rails because the engineer was distracted by word of a nearby commuter train getting hit by a rock.
2017 - The Justice Department appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the 2016 Donald Trump campaign.
Birthdays
27 - Justin Martin (actor)
30 - Samantha Browne-Walters (actress)
31 - Kree Harrison (singer)
31 - Leven Rambin (actress)
33 - Nikki Reed (actress)
33 - Karrueche Tran (model)
35 - Tahj Mowry (actor)
36 - Matt Ryan (football player)
38 - Ginger Gonzaga (actress)
39 - Tony Parker (basketball player)
43 - Kat Foster (actress)
45 - Kandi Burruss (actress)
45 - Rochelle Aytes (actress)
47 - Andrea Corr (singer)
48 - Sasha Alexander (actress)
51 - Jordan Knight (singer)
56 - Paige Turco (actress)
57 - David Eigenberg (actor)
59 - Craig Ferguson (actor/comedian)
60 - Enya (singer)
61 - Simon Fuller (producer/TV personality)
62 - Jim Nantz (sportscaster)
65 - Bob Saget (actor/comedian)
65 - Sugar Ray Leonard (boxer)
68 - Kathleen Sullivan (actress)
81 - Peter Gerety (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 17
1875 - The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
1927 - The Chicago Cubs beat the Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings.
1953 - The New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians set a record when they used 41 players in a game.
1969 - The NFL's Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to move from the NFC to the AFC.
1970 - Hank Aaron became the ninth player in major league history to record 3,000 career hits.
1979 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Chicago Cubs 23-22 in a game that saw 50 hits and 11 home runs.
1983 - The New York Islanders sweep the Edmonton Oilers to win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup.
1998 - David Wells of the New York Yankees threw the 13th perfect game in modern major league history in a 4-0 win over the Minnesota Twins.
2018 - Michigan State University announces it will pay $500 million in claims to 300 survivors of sexual abuse involving Larry Nassar.
2019 - Brooks Koepka fires a 65 (-5) to set a new record for lowest 36-hole score of 128 (-12) in a golf major at the PGA Championship at Bethpage State Park; his seven stroke lead is a 36-hole tournament record.
2020 - Michael Jordan's autographed Air Nike 1s trainers from 1985 sell for a record $560,000 in an online auction.
