Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Significance of May 17 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1939  Sweden, Norway and Finland reject Germany's non-aggression pact.   

1939  1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball.   

1940  Germany begins the invasion of France   

1940  Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium   

1940  The Belgian government moves to Ostend because of invading German forces.   

1940  Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France.   

1942  Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler   

1943  Only 8 of the 17 British and Canadian Lancasters of the Dambusters Squadron return from breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin;.   

1943  Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65   

1944  Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java   

1944  Chinese/US armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma   

1944  General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th   

1944  Operation Straightline Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea.   

1944  The Bureau of Aeronautics authorized CGAS Floyd Bennett Field to collaborate with the Sperry Gyroscope Company in making an automatic pilot installation in a HNS-1 helicopter   

1945  2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu.   

1945  Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies   

1946  KVP Labor/Communists win inaugural post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections   

1946  President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike.   

1948  Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha and Telel-Kadi   

1948  Soviet Union recognized Israel   

1949  British government recognizes Republic of Ireland   

1950  Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67.   

1951  Karl Heinrich David, composer, dies at 66   

1953  Eric De Lamarter, composer, dies at 73   

1954  Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision.   

1955  Dutch Government of Drees steps down   

1955  Alan Fairfax, cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31), dies   

1957  Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (District of Columbia)   

1957  Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer, dies at 54   

1958  Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria   

1960  The inaugural atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA   

1961  Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers   

1961  Frans van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81   

1962  Marin County withdraws from BART district.   

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