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Wednesday, 17 June 2026
1990 Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70. 
1991 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King.
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20¼'
1991 Territories of Amapa and Roraima become states in Brazil.
1991 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84
1992 Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural leads to
1993 Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win.
1994 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68.
1995 Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26.
1996 Tasmanian Premier Ray Groom steps down after accepting responsibility for Liberals losing majority in recent election.
1996 Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42
1997 Gail Davis, ( Annie Oakley), dies at 72
1998 "Cabaret", opens at Club Expo Theater NYC.
1998 Pacific Bell Internet Services announced that a flood of junk e-mail had overwhelmed its message servers on this day in 1998
1999 Pluto again is recorded as becoming outermost planet mar171916 Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the inaugural Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the inaugural combat air mission in U.S. history
2001 AUSTRALIA'S dollar plunged to a historic low of US49.84c last night
2006 mar 26 - The 2006 Commonwealth Games take place in Melbourne, Australia.
2011 Arab Spring: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain declares a three-month state of emergency as troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council are sent to quell the civil unrest.
2013 24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa.
2017 Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film "Beauty and the Beast" for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia
2017 Dutch elections; Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right VVD party win 33 seats vs against 20 for right wing Geert Wilder's Party of Freedom.
2017 French fashion house Givenchy appoints it inaugural female designer, Englishwoman Clare Waight Keller
2018 More than 12000 people flee Hamouria in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, after town bombarded
2018 Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico steps down amid crisis after the murder of a journalist Jan Kuciak investigating mafia connections.
2018 Toy chain Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy.
2018 Pedestrian bridge in Miami, Florida, collapses onto 8-lane highway 5 days after it was built, killing 6.
2019 Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.
2019 51 people are killed and 50 others injured in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand: Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre, both of which were the target of shootings by Australia-born Brenton Harrison Tarrant. It is the deadliest mass shooting and terrorist attack in New Zealand's history and described by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as "one of New Zealand's darkest days". Subsequently, Facebook announced they had disabled 1.5 million videos of the gunman's rampage
2019 Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1073 fatalities, as well as causing mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.
2024 Former US VP Mike Pence says "he cannot in good conscience” endorse Donald Trump for President in an interview on Fox News [1].
2024 Russian presidential election: Incumbent Vladimir Putin is reelected for a fifth term.
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