June 17th:
1994 – O.J. Simpson doesn’t turn himself in on murder charges, Los Angles police chase his Ford Bronco for 1 hours, eventually gives up
1991 – President Zachary Taylor’s body is exhumed to test how he died
1988 – Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
1988 – Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
1982 – President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, “evil empire” speech
1972 – 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
1963 – Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
1954 – Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
1953 – Supreme Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
1950 – 1st kidney transplant, Chicago
1928 – Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1898 – U.S. Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
1775 – Battle of Bunker Hill, actually it was Breed’s Hill