June 17 - This Day in History

June 17 : General Interest
1885: Statue of Liberty arrives

On this day in 1885, the dismantled State of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America, arrives in New York Harbor after being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases... read more


American Revolution
1775 : Battle of Bunker Hill begins
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-bunker-hill-begins


Automotive
1994 : O.J. Simpson leads L.A. police on a high-speed chase
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oj-simpson-leads-la-police-on-a-high-speed-chase


Civil War
1837 : Union Colonel Strong Vincent is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/union-colonel-strong-vincent-is-born


Cold War
1953 : Soviets crush antigovernment riots in East Berlin
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-crush-antigovernment-riots-in-east-berlin


Crime
1972 : Nixon's re-election employees are arrested for burglary
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixons-re-election-employees-are-arrested-for-burglary


Disaster
1958 : Bridge collapses, killing workers
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bridge-collapses-killing-workers


General Interest
1579 : Drake claims California for England
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/drake-claims-california-for-england

1775 : The Battle of Bunker Hill
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-bunker-hill

1940 : France to surrender
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/france-to-surrender

1972 : Watergate burglars arrested
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/watergate-burglars-arrested

1994 : O.J. Simpson arrested after flight from justice
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oj-simpson-arrested-after-flight-from-justice


Hollywood
2008 : Cyd Charisse dies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cyd-charisse-dies


Literary
1972 : Watergate break-ins set the stage for All the President's Men
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/watergate-break-ins-set-the-stage-for-all-the-presidents-men


Music
1989 : New Kids on the Block land at the top of the pops
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-kids-on-the-block-land-at-the-top-of-the-pops


Old West
1876 : Indians hammer U.S. soldiers at the Battle of the Rosebud
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/indians-hammer-us-soldiers-at-the-battle-of-the-rosebud


Presidential
1943 : FDR's secretary of war stifles Truman's inquiry into suspicious defense plant
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdrs-secretary-of-war-stifles-trumans-inquiry-into-suspicious-defense-plant


Sports
1954 : Marciano beats Charles
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/marciano-beats-charles


Vietnam War
1969 : North Vietnamese reoccupy Ap Bia Mountain
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/north-vietnamese-reoccupy-ap-bia-mountain

1972 : Watergate burglars arrested
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/arrests-made-in-watergate


World War I
1917 : Portuguese army sees first action in Flanders
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/portuguese-army-sees-first-action-in-flanders


World War II
1940 : British and Allied troops continue the evacuation of France, as Churchill reassures his countrymen
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-and-allied-troops-continue-the-evacuation-of-france-as-churchill-reassures-his-countrymen