Top Historical Events That Happened on May 17

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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1155  Jien: Japanese poet and historian   

1443  Edmund: Earl of rutland, brother of kings edward iv of england and richard iii of england   

1444  Sandro botticelli: Italian painter (birth of venus)   

1451  Engelbert ii: Earl of nassau-dillenburg-dietz/viceroy of luxembourg   

1490  Albrecht von hohenzollern: 1st duke of prussia   

1551  Martinus a del rio: Spanish/south neth lawyer/historian/theologist   

1551  Martin delrio: Flemish theologian and occultist   

1568  Christoph thomas walliser: Composer   

1050  Death of Guido van arezzo: Italian music theorist,   

1189  Minamoto no yoshitsune: Japanese general (b. 1159)   

1336  Death of Emperor go-fushimi of japan: Emperor go-fushimi of japan (b. 1288)   

1365  Death of Louis vi the roman: Duke of bavaria and elector of brandenburg (b. 1328)   

1395  Death of Constantine dragas: Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm   

1464  Death of Thomas de ros: 10th baron de ros, english politician (executed) (b. 1427)   

1510  Death of Alessandro di botticelli: Painter (birth of venus),   

1521  Death of Edward stafford: 3rd duke of buckingham, english politician (b. 1478)