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Events

• 1805 (221 years ago) Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.
• 1814 (212 years ago) Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
• 1914 (112 years ago) The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
• 1967 (59 years ago) Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
• 1974 (52 years ago) The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
• 1983 (43 years ago) Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
• 1997 (29 years ago) Troops of Laurent-Désiré Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 2007 (19 years ago) Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

Births

• 1749 (277 years ago) Edward Jenner, English physician and microbiologist (died 1823)
• 1866 (160 years ago) Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (died 1925)
• 1873 (153 years ago) Henri Barbusse, French author and journalist (died 1935)
• 1886 (140 years ago) Alfonso XIII, Spanish monarch (died 1941)
• 1936 (90 years ago) Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (died 2010)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Bill Paxton, American actor and director (died 2017)
• 1956 (70 years ago) Bob Saget, American comedian, actor, and television host (died 2022)
• 1961 (65 years ago) Enya, Irish singer-songwriter and producer

Deaths

• 1510 (516 years ago) Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (born 1445)
• 1727 (299 years ago) Catherine I of Russia,
• 1838 (188 years ago) Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1754)
• 1987 (39 years ago) Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter (born 1948)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine Commander in Chief and dictator (born 1925)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Vangelis, Greek musician, composer (born 1943)

All 396 events, births and deaths of May 17