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April 17. April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 258 days remain until the end of the year.
28. 29. 30. Events. 1861 - American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the Union. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina. 1865 - Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 1907 - Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people ...
Patriots' Day ( Patriot's Day in Maine) [1] is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, the inaugural battles of the American Revolutionary War. The holiday occurs on the third Monday of April each year, with celebrations including battle reenactments and the Boston Marathon .
A United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes on a golf course in Leonardtown, Maryland. At least one crew member is injured and taken to hospital. (Fox News) A 5.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 250 kilometers (155 miles) northwest of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. No immediate report of damages or injuries; no tsunami warning ...
1774 ( MDCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1774th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 774th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1770s decade.
April 17 – Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration through Ellis Island; [1] this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.
Current events/2004 April 17. His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama begins a visit to Canada. (Toronto Star) Burma 's National League for Democracy reopens its Rangoon headquarters nearly a year after the government closed it down. (VOA)
Current events/2005 April 17. A major breakthrough in the study of ancient Greek and Roman texts may lead to the revelation of hundreds of lost comedies, tragedies and epic poems. Using an infrared technique originally developed for satellite imaging, classicists at Oxford University, in the past four days alone, have made a series of new ...