Page 6: Historical Events In June - 17
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1950 Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies 

1951 "Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances 

1951 Carl Vogler, composer, dies at 77. 

1952 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium. 

1952 Alberto Williams, Argentine composer (Etrerno Reposo), dies at 89. 

1953 East Berlin workers rise up to protest low wages and bad conditions. Soviet tanks mow down the strikers with machine gun fire, ending illusions that communism is a workers' paradise. 

1953 Soviet tanks deployed against rioting East Germans 

1953 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary 

1953 Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox) 

1953 Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76 

1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends 

1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles and United Fruit Co) 

1956 In this year, Golda Meir starts her term as Israel's foreign minister 

1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores). 

1957 "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orch peaks at #2 

1957 D Richardson, writer, dies at 84 

1959 Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68. 

1960 Pierre Reverdy, French author/poet (North-South), dies at 70 

1961 Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Away all boats), dies at 40. 

1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago 

1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools. 

1963 Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79 

1965 28.14 cm (11.08") of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record). 

1965 Arnold Meijer, leader (Fascist Nationally Front), dies. 

1967 Barbra Striesand A Happening in Central Park performed. 

1967 China is recorded as becoming world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power. 

1967 China explodes its inaugural H-bomb 

1967 Barbra Striesand: A Happening in Central Park performed. 

1970 Polaroid camera patented 

1970 Matthew Henderson, cricketer (one Test for NZ 1930), dies 

1971 C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas 

1971 C Christopher Morris, cricketer (brilliant batsman for Phila), dies. 

1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate Oh what a tangled web we weave 

1972 In this year, Looking Glass releases "Brandy". 

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