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This is a list of selected May 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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New York Stock Exchange
President Jacques Chirac of France
Notre-Dame Church, Montreal
Anne of Denmark in 1612
The sinking of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Rosalía de Castro
Main fragment of the Antikythera mechanism

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia;	unreferenced section
Constitution Day in Norway (1814);	unreferenced section
1792 – Twenty-four stockbrokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement to establish the New York Stock Exchange.	refimprove section
1814 – The Constitution of Norway was signed and Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik was elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.	refimprove
1863 – Rosalía de Castro published the first book in the Galician language: Cantares gallegos, a collection of her poetry.	unreferenced section
1875 – The American Thoroughbred racehorse Aristides won the first running of the Kentucky Derby.	Aristedes: refimprove; Derby: refimprove section
1900 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Mafeking in South Africa was lifted after 217 days, a decisive victory for the British against the Boers.	lots of CN tags (6)
1980 – On the eve of the Peruvian general election, the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacked a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the internal conflict in Peru.	{{prose}}
1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon began in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that resulted in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.	unreferenced section
1995 – After 18 years as Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac was inaugurated as President of France.	refimprove section
1997 – The First Congo War came to an end when Laurent-Désiré Kabila proclaimed himself president of Zaire, which was also renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.	refimprove section
2006 – The U.S. Navy deliberately sank the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany, the largest vessel ever sunk to create an artificial reef.	multiple issues

Eligible

1395 – An outnumbered Wallachian army repulsed an Ottoman invasion force in the Battle of Rovine.
1521 – English nobleman Edward Stafford, whose father had been beheaded for rebelling against King Richard III, was himself executed for treason against King Henry VIII.
1865 – The International Telecommunication Union, which standardizes and regulates international radio and telecommunications, was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris.
1902 – The Antikythera mechanism (fragment pictured), the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.
1914 – Under the Protocol of Corfu, the Principality of Albania officially recognized Northern Epirus as an autonomous self-governing region.
1954 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation in public schools because "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and therefore unconstitutional.
1974 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a series of car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, killing 34 people and injuring almost 300 more.
1977 – The first Chuck E. Cheese location, the first family restaurant to integrate food, animated entertainment, and an indoor arcade, opened in San Jose, California, U.S.
2004 – Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2009 – Dalia Grybauskaitė (pictured) became the first woman to be elected as president of Lithuania, receiving 69.1% of the vote.
Born/died this day: Martin Delrio (b. 1551) | Samuel Clarke (d. 1729 | Seth Warner (b. 1743)) | Sebastian Kneipp (b. 1821) | Cool Papa Bell (b. 1903) | Dorothy Levitt (d. 1922) | Hazel R. O'Leary (b. 1937) | Enya (b. 1961) | Maggie Laubser (d. 1973)

Notes

2003–04 Arsenal F.C. season appears on May 15, so 2000 UEFA Cup Final should not appear in the same year
Plessy v. Ferguson appears on May 18, so Brown v. Board of Education should not appear in the same year

May 17: Galician Literature Day in Galicia, Spain

Coco Chanel

1590 – Anne of Denmark was crowned queen consort of Scotland in a ceremony at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh.
1642 – The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal founded Fort Ville-Marie, a permanent mission that eventually grew into the Canadian city of Montreal.
1947 – After renegotiating a contract with the makers of her signature Chanel No. 5 perfume, Coco Chanel (pictured) received a share of wartime profits from its sale, making her one of the richest women in the world.
2000 – Following the killing of two English football fans by Galatasaray supporters in the previous month, British and Turkish hooligans rioted on the day of the UEFA Cup Final in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mary, Queen of Hungary (d. 1395)
Caroline of Brunswick (b. 1768)
B. S. Chandrasekhar (b. 1945)

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