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This is a list of selected June 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.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Icelandic National Day unreferenced section
1789French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly. original research, needs more footnotes
1862American Civil War: During the Battle of St. Charles, a Confederate soldier punctured a steam drum on USS Mound City, filling the ship with scalding steam, killing 105 sailors. TFA for 2022
1876Great Sioux War: A band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne attacked a United States Army expedition and its Crow and Shoshone allies in the Battle of the Rosebud. unreferenced section
1922Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral completed the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic. heavily dependent on an unreliable source
1930 – U.S. president Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law, raising tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. refimprove
1953 – The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei violently suppressed an uprising in Berlin against the East German government. refimprove
1963 – The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Abington School District v. Schempp that school-sponsored Bible reading in U.S. public schools is unconstitutional. needs more footnotes
1972 – Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of U.S. president Richard Nixon more than two years later. Watergate scandal: Refimprove section
1985 – On board Space Shuttle Discovery, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud became the first Arab, the first Muslim, and the first astronaut of royal blood to fly in outer space. unreferenced section
1987 – "Orange Band", the last dusky seaside sparrow, died. refimprove
1991 – The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act, which required that each inhabitant be classified and registered by race as part of the system of apartheid. needs reorganization
1994 – Following a police chase along Los Angeles freeways and a failed suicide attempt, actor and former American football player O. J. Simpson was arrested for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson: unreferenced section; Murder case: refimprove section
* 1843New Zealand Wars: British settlers clashed with Māori over a land dispute in the Wairau Valley, resulting in 26 deaths. Undercited
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro |d|811| Undercited
Birgitte Thott |b|1610| Undercited

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