June 17th, 2017

Born on June 17th, 2017

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on June 17th, 2017?

June 17th, 2017

A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2017_Portugal_wildfires

June 17th, 2017

Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2017_Portugal_wildfires

What else happened on June 17th?

June 17th, 1963

Riots broke out in Saigon one day after the signing of the Joint Communiqué, an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.

June 17th, 1940

Second World War: RMS Lancastria was sunk by German aircraft near Saint-Nazaire, France, causing thousands of fatalities in Britain's worst maritime disaster.

June 17th, 1919

Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.

June 17th, 1913

In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.

June 17th, 1900

Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts from Qing China after a brief but bloody battle.

June 17th, 1861

American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the world's first military movements of troops by train.

June 17th, 1795

French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.

June 17th, 1775

American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts.

June 17th, 1631

Mumtaz Mahal (pictured), wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.

June 17th, 1579

Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.

June 17th, 1462

Hungarian–Ottoman Wars: Wallachian forces led by Vlad Dracula attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Sultan Mehmed II.

June 17th, 1397

The kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Eric of Pomerania.

June 17th, 0653

Pope Martin I was arrested in the Lateran Palace, Rome, and taken to Constantinople.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 17th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 17th?

37

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper and songwriter (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

44

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

66

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

62

Frank Baranowski

German politician

*June 17th, 1962, Gelsenkirchen

68

Alan Phillips

Baseball and badminton player

*June 17th, 1956, Cape Town

44

Venus Williams

American tennis player (born 1980)

*June 17th, 1980, Lynwood

42

Arthur Darvill

Actor from England

*June 17th, 1982, Birmingham

38

Helen Glover

British rower

*June 17th, 1986, Truro

58

Jason Patric

American actor

*June 17th, 1966, Queens

79

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

34

Jordan Henderson

English association football player (born 1990)

*June 17th, 1990, Sunderland

32

Elvira Sastre

Spanish poet and translator

*June 17th, 1992, Segovia

48

Lee Baxter

Swedish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Stockholm

52

Iztok Čop

Slovenian rower

*June 17th, 1972, Kranj

81

Burt Rutan

American aerospace engineer

*June 17th, 1943, Estacada

64

Thomas Haden Church

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1960)

*June 17th, 1960, Woodland

34

Alan Dzagoev

Russian association football player

*June 17th, 1990, Beslan

67

Joachim Król

German actor

*June 17th, 1957, Herne

40

Benedict Wall

Actor

*June 17th, 1984, Auckland City

82

Mohamed ElBaradei

Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

*June 17th, 1942, Cairo

Same year
Born in 2017

7

Puka Nacua

American football player (born 2001)

*May 29th, 2017, Provo

6

Prince Gabriel, Duke of Dalarna

Younger son of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden

*August 31st, 2017, Danderyd Hospital

6

Alana Martina dos Santos Aveiro

Daughter of Cristiano Ronaldo

*November 12th, 2017, Madrid

6

Prince Iskandar of Johor

Johorean Royal

*October 14th, 2017, Sultanah Aminah Hospital

7

Sir Carter

Son of Beyoncé and Jay-Z

*June 13th, 2017, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

7

Rumi Carter

Daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z

*June 13th, 2017, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

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Born on June 17th, 2017
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2017 is a normal year and no leap year.

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