##8; THIS DAY IN HISTORY (TDIH) SHOW: APRIL 17th IN HISTORY.

Greetings to Steemians all over the world, even as I welcome you all once again to another exciting edition of THIS DAY IN HISTORY, and today it's April 17th in History and right here to review the happenings of April 17 is still your humble anchor man and host, @royaltiesboss-eu.

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Today is April 17, the 107th day on the Gregorian Calendar, and we have just 258 days to the end of the year, remember time is priceless, don't waste it.

As is our tradition, we are going to bring you some historic events that occurred on this date in history, which include: birthdays, scientific milestones, weddings, wars, treaties, political takeovers and a whole lot of other events.

APRIL 17, Birthdays:

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We are kicking off today's show with the birthdays, we want to find out some great men and women that were born on April 17th, and some of their achievements and contributions towards the development of mankind.

• 17th April, 1620 Marguerite Bourgeoys, French founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame and the first Canadian saint, born in Troyes, France.

• April 17, 1676, Frederik I, van Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), born in Kassel, Germany.

• On 17 April, 1820 Alexander Cartwright, American sportsman recognized as inventor of modern baseball, born in New York City, New York.

• On April 17, 1837, J. P. Morgan, Sr. [John Pierpont], American financier and philanthropist General Electric, Steel Corporation, AT&T, born in Hartford, Connecticut.

• April 17, 1923 Harry Reasoner, American newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC, CBS), born in Dakota City, Iowa.

That's it for birthdays today, and its time for wedding anniversaries, so who are those that walked down the aisle on April 17.

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Some famous weddings on April 17:

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Some famous weddings that occurred on April 17;

• On April 17, 1929 Baseball great Babe Ruth gets married to 2nd wife Claire Merritt Hodgson

• April 17th, 1941, Actress Doris Day weds trombonist Albert Jorden

• 17 April, 1943, Actress Claire Trevor weds Navy lieutenant Cyclos William Dunsmoore in Tijuana, Mexico

• April 17th, 1993, "The Bangles" lead singer Susanna Hoffs weds "Austin Powers" director Jay Roach.

• On this day in 1994, Jennie Garth weds Dan Clark.

• 2009, April 17, the World's no. 1 professional tennis player Andy Roddick weds fashion model and actress Brooklyn Decker, in Austin, Texas

• April 17, 2011, actress and model Torrey Devitto weds actor Paul Wesley in New York.

Those are the few weddings that took place on April 17th which we would be celebrating today. And now we head over to the science and technology hub.

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SIGNIFICANT SCIENTIFIC EVENTS IN HISTORY ON APRIL 17:

• April 17, 1970, The Apollo 13 mission ended safely with a splashdown into the Pacific Ocean, four days after the spacecraft aborted its mission while it was on the way to the moon, after a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.

• April 17, 1967, the spacecraft Surveyor 3 was successfully launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, making it the second US spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon, where it studied the lunar surface and sent more than 6300 pictures back to Earth.

• On April 17, 1964, Geraldine (“Jerrie”) Mock landed in Columbus, Ohio, becoming the first woman to complete a solo airplane flight around the world.

• On this date in 1930, the discovery of a new rubber-like compound was recorded by Dr. Arnold M. Collins in his laboratory notebook. And after weeks of research and experiments it became the first synthetic rubber.

April 17, 1861, the first oil well fire occurred at the Little and Merrick well at Oil Creek, near Rouseville, Pennsylvania. It ignited shortly after gushing, burned for three days, and 19 deaths were recorded.

• April 17th, 1810, the first U.S. patent for pineapple cheese was issued to L.M. Norton of Troy, Pennsylvania.

What a day April 17 have been in the science and technology hub, hopefully more historic scientific feats would be attributed to this day in the future.

SIGNIFICANT HISTORIC EVENTS ON APRIL 17:

• On April 17, 1492 Christopher Columbus signs a contract with the Spanish monarchs to find the "Indies" with the stated goal of converting people to Catholicism. This promises him 10% of all riches found, and the governorship of any lands encountered.

• April 17, 1524, Giovanni Verrazano, a Florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay.

• April 17, 1534, Sir Thomas More is confined in Tower of London.

• On April 17, 1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships.

• On this day in 1865, Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination.

• April17, 1900, 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession

• On this day in 1932, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery.

• And on same date in 1945 Benito Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan

• April 17, 1948 Elpidio Quirino assumes the Presidency of the Philippines, taking his oath of office two days after the death of President Manuel Roxas.

• April 17, 1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

• On the same day, April 17, 1982 Proclamation of the Constitution Act by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

• On this day in 2009, former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark becomes the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the first woman to lead the organization

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SHOCKING OBITUARIES:

Before we go, let's look at some notable personalities that died on April 17.

• April 17, 1790 Benjamin Franklin, one of the United States Founding Father, inventor, ambassador and writer, dies at 84

• April 17, 1892 Alexander Mackenzie, the 2nd Prime Minister of Canada, dies of stroke at 70

• On April 17, 1988 Louise Nevelson, a sculptor, dies of brain tumor at 88.

• On this day in 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, dies of pneumonia at 87

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Finally we have come to the end of today's show, April 17 has been a very eventful day, let us all try to create a better history today by doing good and making our world a better place.
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