{"id":20013,"date":"2020-04-17T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T03:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=20013"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T03:54:52","slug":"history-of-17-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-17-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 17 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 17 April<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King. Two other officers were acquitted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> &#8211; Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing their parents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; In India, the government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee collapsed after losing a vote of confidence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; At the National Maritime Museum in London, the exhibit &#8220;Skin Deep &#8211; A History of Tattooing&#8221; opened.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2006<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0Palestinian\u00a0suicide bomber\u00a0detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0An explosion\u00a0at a fertilizer plant in the city of\u00a0West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0NASA&#8217;s\u00a0Kepler space telescope\u00a0confirms the discovery of\u00a0the first Earth-size planet\u00a0in the\u00a0habitable zone\u00a0of another star.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ryan Raburn, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chris Thompson, English runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Zhang Yaokun, Chinese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brad Boyes, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chuck Kobasew, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stanislav Chistov, Russian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Roberto Jim\u00e9nez, Peruvian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pablo Sebasti\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, Argentinian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jed Lowrie, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rooney Mara, American actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Romain Grosjean, French race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 17 April 1993 &#8211; A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King. Two other officers were acquitted. 1996 &#8211; Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing their parents. 1999 &#8211; In India, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1166,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-20013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-17-april","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5cN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20051,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013\/revisions\/20051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}