Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 17

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  Henri Giraud
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  Modern reconstruction of Kaunas Castle
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  Mam Tor, Peak District
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  Superstructure of Minas Geraes

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Blurb	Reason
World Hemophilia Day	needs 3rd party refs
1555 – After 18 months of resistance, Siena surrendered to Florence and was annexed into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.	unreferenced section
1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, began an unsuccessful eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces.	refimprove section, empty sections
1869 – The Free and Sovereign State of Morelos, named after José María Morelos, the hero of the Siege of Cuautla, was admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.	referencing, recentism
1876 – Six Irish Fenians imprisoned in the Convict Establishment in Western Australia escaped and fled to the U.S.	primary sources
1895 – The Empire of Japan and the Qing Empire of China signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki to end the First Sino-Japanese War.	refimprove
1912 – Soldiers of the Russian Empire's army fired upon striking gold miners in northeast Siberia near the Lena River, killing at least 150 people.	refimprove
1937 – Daffy Duck made his debut in a short cartoon by the Warner Bros. Studio.	refimprove
1942 – World War II: Captured French general Henri Giraud escaped from German captivity in the Königstein Castle.	many CN tags (5)
1961 – Armed Cuban exiles backed by the CIA invaded Cuba, landing in the Bay of Pigs, with the aim of overthrowing the Cuban government under Fidel Castro.	page numbers needed
1969 – Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček was deposed.	refimprove section
1971 – Headed by Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad, the Provisional Government of Bangladesh was founded.	multiple issues
1982 – A new patriated Constitution of Canada, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a bill of rights intended to protect certain political and civil rights of people in Canada, was signed into law by Template:Nowrap, Queen of Canada.	refimprove
2013 – An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, U.S., killing 15 people and injuring 160 others.	outdated
Sean Bean |b|1959	refimprove section

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• 1362 – Lithuanian Crusade: After a month-long siege, forces of the Teutonic Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle (reconstruction pictured), which was defended by troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
• 1783 – The Mechanical Turk, a fraudulent chess-playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controlled by a hidden human, began a tour of Europe.
• 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: British forces commanded by Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby invaded the Spanish colonial port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1907 – Minas Geraes (pictured), the first of three Brazilian dreadnought battleships, was laid down, sparking a vastly expensive South American naval arms race with Argentina and Chile.
• 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1971 – Ustaše-affiliated Croatian separatists attacked the Yugoslav embassy in Stockholm, fatally shooting the ambassador, Vladimir Rolović.
• 1973 – George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars.
• 1984 – Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London, resulting in an 11-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of Libya–United Kingdom relations.
• 1986 – Having supposedly been at war for 335 years without a single shot having been fired and no casualties incurred, the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace.
• Born/died: | Bernard of Italy |d|818| Benjamin Franklin |d|1790| Eliza Acton |b|1799| Mary Jefferson Eppes |d|1804| William R. Day |b|1849| Cap Anson |b|1852| Sirimavo Bandaranaike |b|1916| Neville McNamara |b|1923| Greg Gianforte |b|1961| Elda Emma Anderson |d|1961| Vikram |b|1966| Victoria Beckham|b|1974| Julie Won |b|1990| Ralph Abernathy |d|1990|

April 17: Independence Day in Syria (1946) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1080 – Canute IV became King of Denmark upon the death of his brother Harald III.
• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: After a three-day chase, the French ship D'Hautpoul was captured off Puerto Rico by a British squadron under Alexander Cochrane.
• 1951 – The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom.
• 1975 – The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of the Khmer Republic, ending the Cambodian Civil War and establishing the socialist state of Democratic Kampuchea.
• 2014 – NASA announced the discovery of [[Kepler-186f|Template:Nowrap]] (pictured), the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habitable zone of another star.