Historical Events In May - 17
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1996 On May - 17 alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
1996 Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), dies on May - 17.
1997 On this day in history sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
2005 On May - 17 kuwaiti women granted right to vote.
2006 On this day in history fC Barcelona beat Arsenal in the final of the UEFA Champions League played in Paris
2007 On May - 17 alex Salmond officially became First Minister of Scotland after taking over from Jack McConnell.
2007 Hong Kong media regulator receives more than thousand complaints about the Bible being too sexual on this day in history.
2007 The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-united after eighty years of schism on this day in history.
2013 90 people are killed and 200 are injured after a series of bombings across Iraq on this day in history.
2014 On this day in history atlético Madrid win the 2013–14 La Liga
2018 On May - 17 gina Haspel confirmed as the first female director of the CIA by the US Senate
2018 Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo spreads to the city of Mbandaka on May - 17.
2018 On May - 17 michigan State University will pay $500 million in claims to 300 survivors of sexual abuse involving Larry Nassar. Largest sexual abuse case in sports history.
2019 On this day in history taiwan's parliament becomes the first in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage.
2019 Ibiza affair: A corruption scandal involving the Vice-Chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache and deputy leader of the Freedom Party Johann Gudenus offering to fix state contracts with a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch at a 2017 meeting in Spain leads to the collapse of the coalition government and calls for snap elections.May 18 - 2019 Australian federal election: Scott Morrison's Liberal/National Coalition Government is narrowly re-elected, defeating the Labor Party led by Bill Shorten on this day in history.
2020 Israel swears in a new government led by both Benny Gantz, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after 510 days on this day in history.
2020 Michael Jordan 's autographed Air Nike 1s trainers from 1985 sell for a record $560,000 in an online auction on this day in history.
2020 On May - 17 barack Obama criticizes the US government's handling of the pandemic during an online address to graduates, saying officials "aren't even pretending to be in charge"
2021 Discovery, Inc. agrees to buy media conglomerate WarnerMedia and all of its subsidiaries, from AT&T for US$43 billion. The merger is set to be complete the following year on May - 17.
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