27 Khordad 1401

Events

• 1242 (784 years ago) Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts are burnt in Paris.
• 1789 (237 years ago) In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
• 1940 (86 years ago) The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya from Italian forces.
• 1944 (82 years ago) Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
• 1963 (63 years ago) The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
• 1967 (59 years ago) Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
• 2017 (9 years ago) A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others.

Births

• 1239 (787 years ago) Edward I, English king (died 1307)
• 1682 (344 years ago) Charles XII, Swedish king (died 1718)
• 1818 (208 years ago) Charles Gounod, French composer and academic (died 1893)
• 1882 (144 years ago) Igor Stravinsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1971)
• 1898 (128 years ago) M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (died 1972)
• 1900 (126 years ago) Martin Bormann, German politician (died 1945)
• 1942 (84 years ago) Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian politician, Vice President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1980 (46 years ago) Venus Williams, American tennis player

Deaths

• 656 (1370 years ago) Uthman, caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate (born 579)
• 676 (1350 years ago) Adeodatus, pope of the Catholic Church
• 1696 (330 years ago) John III Sobieski, Polish king (born 1629)
• 1719 (307 years ago) Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician (born 1672)
• 1996 (30 years ago) Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (born 1922)
• 2015 (11 years ago) Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (born 1924)
• 2019 (7 years ago) Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian professor and politician, first elected president of Egypt after Egyptian revolution (born 1951)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (born 1924)

All 401 events, births and deaths of June 17