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Friday, May 17, 2013

This will be 137th day of the year and 228 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 8 Sivan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 8th day of the 4th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

May 17 Birthdays

Ayatollah Khomeini
Pronunciation: [kOmA´nE]
1900–1989, Iranian Shiite religious leader.

Seth Warner
hero of the American Revolution (1743)

Edward Jenner
physician (1749)

Erik Satie
composer (1866)

Birgit Nilsson
soprano (1918)

Dennis Hopper
actor, director, producer (1936)

Sugar Ray Leonard
boxer (1956)

May 2013

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19	20	21	22	23	24	25
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May 17 in History

1792

The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.

1875

The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky.

1938

NBC aired the Information Please quiz show on the radio for the first time.

1954

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education.

1973

Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin.

1987

An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62.

1997

Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2004

In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.