Historical Events In May - 17

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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1155  On this day in history birth of jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)   

1443  On this day in history birth of edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England   

1444  On May - 17 birth of sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)   

1451  On May - 17 birth of engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg   

1490  Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia was born on May - 17.   

1551  On May - 17 birth of martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist   

1551  Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601) was born on this day in history.   

1568  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on May - 17.   

1050  On this day in history guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies   

1189  Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159) on this day in history.   

1336  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)   

1365  Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on this day in history.   

1395  On May - 17 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) on this day in history.   

1510  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on May - 17.   

1521  Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on this day in history.