What happened on April 17th?
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| 1194 | Richard I (the Lionheart) is crowned king of England for the second time, after earlier surrendering his kingdom to the Holy Roman emperor Henry VI Learn more.. |
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| 1397 | Geoffrey Chaucer read his Canterbury Tales out loud for the first time in King Richard II's court. Learn more.. |
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| 1521 | Martin Luther appears before the Diet of Worms to defend his ideas on church reform Learn more.. |
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| 1790 | Benjamin Franklin dies Learn more.. |
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| 1837 | American financier John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Learn more.. |
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| 1860 | The first world heavyweight boxing championship is fought in England - the brutal bout continues for 42 rounds Learn more.. |
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| 1895 | The Treaty of Shimonoseki concludes the first Sino-Japanese War - China is defeated Learn more.. |
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| 1911 | Irving Berlin Alexander's Rag-time Band was probably given its first public performance by Emma Carus Learn more.. |
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| 1951 | The Peak District becomes the Britain's first National Park Learn more.. |
| 1956 | Premium Bonds first launched in the UK Learn more.. |
| 1961 | A U.S.-backed attempt to overthrow Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba failed disastrously in what became known as the Bay of Pigs. Learn more.. |
| 1964 | The debut album The Rolling Stones is released by Decca Records in the UK Learn more.. |
| 1969 | The 21-year-old Bernadette Devlin is voted in as Britain's youngest ever female MP Learn more.. |
| The voting age in the UK is lowered from 21 to 18 Learn more.. | |
| 1970 | The crew of Apollo 13 successfully returned to Earth after an oxygen tank explosion aborted their planned moon landing Learn more.. |
| 1975 | Cambodia's ruling Lon Nol government collapses allowing the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, to enter Phnom Penh Learn more.. |
| 1978 | Mir Akbar Khyber's assassination triggers a communist coup in Afghanistan Learn more.. |
| 1982 | The Canada Act, also known as the Constitution Act, takes effect making Canada a wholly independent, fully sovereign state Learn more.. |
| 1984 | Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan Embassy in London Learn more.. |
| 1986 | The world's longest war (335 years) ends between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, although some historians doubt that war had ever been declared Learn more.. |
| 1989 | The Polish labour union Solidarity was granted legal status after nearly a decade of struggle. Learn more.. |
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| 2003 | U.S. forces in Baghdad capture Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a half-brother of Saddam Hussein Learn more.. |
| 2009 | Regulators seize American Sterling Bank of Sugar Creek, and Great Basin Bank of Nevada, bringing to 25 the number of bank failures in the U.S. Learn more.. |
| 2011 | The popular TV show Game of Thrones debuts on HBO Learn more.. |
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