May 17: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1964  Otto V Kuusinen, pres of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82.   

1967  Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as the film "Don't Look Back".   

1967  John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65   

1968  European Space Research Organization launches inaugural satellite   

1969  Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus.   

1969  Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80   

1970  Hank Aaron is recorded as becoming 9th player to get 3000 hits   

1970  Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra   

1970  Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61   

1971  Washington State bans sex discrimination.   

1972  Netherlands and China People's Republic exchange ambassadors.   

1972  In this year, Tottenham Hotspur claims inaugural UEFA Cup in London   

1973  Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings   

1973  In this year, Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Life".   

1973  The Senate Select Committee hearings on Watergate open   

1973  US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle CO.   

1973  Alexander J Kropholler, Dutch architect/writer, dies at 91.   

1974  Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49.   

1975  "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79   

1975  In this year, 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love".   

1975  Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches.   

1975  NBC paid $5 million for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time   

1976  28th Emmy Awards Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson and Michael Learned win.   

1976  Earthquake in Uzbekistan 1000's killed   

1976  In Uzbek SSR a 7.1 quake killed 6 and 10000 homeless in Gazli area. Damage reported in parts of Uzbek, Tadzhik, and Turkham SSR.   

1977  In this year, Menahem Begins Likoed-party claims election in Israel   

1978  John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies   

1979  -12ºF (-11ºC), on top of Mauna Kea HI (state record).   

1979  Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation.   

1980  Major race riot in Miami FL - 16 killed, 300 injured   

1980  Paul and Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live   

1981  Hugo Freidhofer, composer, dies at 80   

1983  Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty.   

1984  Mai Shanley, 21, (New Mexico), crowned 33rd Miss USA   

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