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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.
An archive of historical anniversaries that appeared on the Main Page. 2024 day arrangement. April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day (1979) Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham (pictured) opened the first section of the Brill ...
April 1, 1964 (Wednesday) Queen Elizabeth II became the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom as part of the reorganisation of the defence of the nation. The post of First Lord of the Admiralty, held for the past year by the Earl Jellicoe, was abolished after 163 years. The position of Minister of Defence, held by Peter Thorneycroft, Baron ...
The stars are out in April, with a few celebrating a milestone birthday. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Last updated: August 14, 2024. Website. www.jawed.com. Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 330 ...
April 1: 1640 - Birth of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697) 1776 - Birth of Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831) 1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. 1865 - Birth of Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929) 1933 - Birth of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist ...
1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. 1976 – Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
April 17: Evacuation Day in Syria ( 1946) 1362 – Lithuanian Crusade: After a month-long siege, forces of the Teutonic Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle (reconstruction pictured), which was defended by troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1783 – The Mechanical Turk, a fraudulent chess -playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen ...