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1527 \u2013 P\u00e1nfilo de Narv\u00e1ez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men on what turns out to be a disastrous voyage of discovery \u2013 by 1536 only 4 men, which don’t include Narv\u00e1ez survive to reach Sinaloa, Mexico<\/p>\n
1395 \u2013\u00a0 The warlords of ancient Wallachia defeat invading Turks at Rovine, near the Arge\u0219 River in Romania.<\/p>\n
1642 \u2013 Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montr\u00e9al, current day Montreal, Quebec.<\/p>\n
1673 \u2013 Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River for the French.<\/p>\n
1756 \u2013 The Seven Years’ War, more commonly known in the U.S. as the French and Indian War, formally begins when Great Britain declares war on France.<\/p>\n
1792 \u2013 Under terms of the Buttonwood Agreement of 24 stockbrokers and merchants on Wall Street in New York City, the New York Stock Exchange is formed.<\/p>\n
1875 \u2013\u00a0 Jockey Oliver Lewis riding aboard Aristides<\/em> wins the first Kentucky Derby in 2 minutes, 37.75 seconds.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 The novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/em>, by L. Frank Baum, is published in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the U.S. first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 No. 617 Squadron RAF, still in service and currently based at RAF Marham in Norfolk, \u00a0bomb the M\u00f6hne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany during World War II.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, <\/em>the Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision\u00a0outlawing racial segregation in public schools.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army’s headquarters, killing 6 members of the terrorist group.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Nolan Bushnell opens the first ShowBiz Pizza Place, later renamed Chuck E. Cheese, in San Jose, California.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Appalachian Observer<\/em> newspaper, the U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents confirming 4.2 million pounds of mercury pollution in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 During the Iran\u2013Iraq War, an Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark<\/em>, killing 37 sailors and injuring 21.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 Class 2-89 of Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment U.S. Army, graduates Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 \u00a0Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from a National Guard armory in San Diego, California and goes on a rampage, destroying numerous vehicles and other property before being shot by the police who forcibly enter the tank.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 The aircraft carrier CVA-34 USS Oriskany<\/em> is purposefully sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, off Panama City, Florida to become ‘The Great Carrier Reef’.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 17 1527 \u2013 P\u00e1nfilo de Narv\u00e1ez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men on what turns out to be a disastrous voyage of discovery \u2013 by 1536 only 4 men, which don’t include Narv\u00e1ez survive to reach Sinaloa, Mexico 1395 \u2013\u00a0 The warlords of ancient Wallachia defeat invading Turks at Rovine, near the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67827"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92843,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67827\/revisions\/92843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}