May 17
1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street and signing the Buttonwood Agreement.
1829 - John Jay, American statesman and the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, died at the age of 83.
1940 - The Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium during World War II.
1946 - President Harry S. Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1954 - The Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka) ruling, which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
1973 - The Senate began hearings into the Watergate scandal.
1980 - Rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating a black man.
1987 - An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors. Iraq and the U.S. called the attack a mistake.
1992 - Orchestra leader Lawrence Welk died at the age of 89.
1996 - President Bill Clinton signed "Megan's Law", a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in.
2000 - Two former Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four black girls.
2004 - Massachusetts became the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages.
2011 - Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement confirming a Los Angeles Times report that he had fathered a child with a woman on his household staff more than a decade earlier.
Birthdays
27 - Nikki Reed (actress)
27 - Karrueche Tran (model)
30 - Matt Ryan (football player)
33 - Tony Parker (basketball player)
33 - Matt Cassel (football player)
37 - Carlos Pena (baseball player)
45 - Jordan Knight (pop singer)
50 - Paige Turco (actress)
53 - Craig Ferguson (TV host)
59 - Sugar Ray Leonard (boxer)
59 - Bob Saget (actor/comedian)
60 - Bill Paxton (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 17
1875 - The Kentucky Derby was run for the first time, and was won by Aristides.
1925 - Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians recorded his 3,000th hit.
1928 - The Summer Olympics opened in Amsterdam.
1969 - The Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to move from the NFC to the AFC.
1970 - Hank Aaron collected his 3,000th hit, the ninth player in baseball history to do so.
1979 - The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs 23-22. The two teams combined to 11 home runs in the game, tying a major league record.
1993 - Mike Blowers of the Seattle Mariners became the 13th player in baseball to hit a grand slam in consecutive games.
1998 - David Wells of the New York Yankees became the 13th player in modern major league history to throw a perfect game in a 4-0 win over the Minnesota Twins.
2011 - Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew died at the age of 74.
2012 - Old Dominion announced it was moving its football from up from the FCS level to FBS competition and would join Conference USA beginning with the 2013-14 school year.
1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street and signing the Buttonwood Agreement.
1829 - John Jay, American statesman and the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, died at the age of 83.
1940 - The Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium during World War II.
1946 - President Harry S. Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1954 - The Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka) ruling, which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
1973 - The Senate began hearings into the Watergate scandal.
1980 - Rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating a black man.
1987 - An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors. Iraq and the U.S. called the attack a mistake.
1992 - Orchestra leader Lawrence Welk died at the age of 89.
1996 - President Bill Clinton signed "Megan's Law", a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in.
2000 - Two former Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four black girls.
2004 - Massachusetts became the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages.
2011 - Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement confirming a Los Angeles Times report that he had fathered a child with a woman on his household staff more than a decade earlier.
Birthdays
27 - Nikki Reed (actress)
27 - Karrueche Tran (model)
30 - Matt Ryan (football player)
33 - Tony Parker (basketball player)
33 - Matt Cassel (football player)
37 - Carlos Pena (baseball player)
45 - Jordan Knight (pop singer)
50 - Paige Turco (actress)
53 - Craig Ferguson (TV host)
59 - Sugar Ray Leonard (boxer)
59 - Bob Saget (actor/comedian)
60 - Bill Paxton (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 17
1875 - The Kentucky Derby was run for the first time, and was won by Aristides.
1925 - Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians recorded his 3,000th hit.
1928 - The Summer Olympics opened in Amsterdam.
1969 - The Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to move from the NFC to the AFC.
1970 - Hank Aaron collected his 3,000th hit, the ninth player in baseball history to do so.
1979 - The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs 23-22. The two teams combined to 11 home runs in the game, tying a major league record.
1993 - Mike Blowers of the Seattle Mariners became the 13th player in baseball to hit a grand slam in consecutive games.
1998 - David Wells of the New York Yankees became the 13th player in modern major league history to throw a perfect game in a 4-0 win over the Minnesota Twins.
2011 - Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew died at the age of 74.
2012 - Old Dominion announced it was moving its football from up from the FCS level to FBS competition and would join Conference USA beginning with the 2013-14 school year.
