{"id":20940,"date":"2020-05-17T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=20940"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T10:57:07","slug":"history-of-17-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-17-may-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 17 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 17 May<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1990 <\/strong>&#8211; Kelsey Grammer was sentenced to 30 days in jail for DWI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996 <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. Megan&#8217;s Law was named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, who was raped and killed in 1994.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997 <\/strong>&#8211; Rebel leader Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997 <\/strong>&#8211; Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin were married in London.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998 <\/strong>&#8211; New York Yankees pitcher David Wells became the 13th player in modern\u00a0major league baseball\u00a0history to throw a perfect game.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999 <\/strong>&#8211; Eric Ford, a tabloid photographer, was sentenced to 6 months at a halfway house, 3 years probation and 150 hours of community service. The sentence stemmed from a charge that Ford had eavesdropped on a call between Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and then sold a recording of the conversation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999 <\/strong>&#8211; Alex Trebek received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000 <\/strong>&#8211; Thomas E. Blanton Jr. and David Luker surrendered to police in Birmingham,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/on-this-day.com\/us\/al\">AL<\/a>. The two former Ku Klux Klan members were arrested on charges from the bombing of a church in 1963 that killed four young black girls.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000 <\/strong>&#8211; Austria, the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and six other countries agreed on the broad outline of a plan that would compensate Nazi-Era forced labor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000 <\/strong>&#8211; It was announced that Terra Networks SA and Lycos would be merging with the new name to be Terra Lycos. Terra made the deal happen with the purchase of $12.5 billion in stock.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001 <\/strong>&#8211; The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp based on Charles M. Schulz&#8217;s &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; comic strip.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002 <\/strong>&#8211; Legoland Deutschland opened in G\u00fcnzburg, Germany.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2006 <\/strong>&#8211; The U.S. aircraft carrier\u00a0<em>Oriskany<\/em>\u00a0was sunk about 24 miles off Pensacola Beach. It was the first vessel sunk under a Navy program to dispose of old warships by turning them into diving attractions. It was the largest man-made reef at the time of the sinking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007 <\/strong>&#8211; Trains crossed the border dividing North and South Korea for the first time since 1953.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2016 <\/strong>&#8211; The U.S. Senate approved legislation that would allow families of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to sue the government of Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Be\u00f1at Albizuri, Spanish cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Leon Osman, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Lim Jeong-hee, South Korean singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Chris Skidmore, English historian and politician<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Giannis Taralidis, Greek footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Matt Cassel, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dan Hardy, English mixed martial artist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Reiko Nakamura, Japanese swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tony Parker, French-American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chloe Smith, English politician<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Channing Frye, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chris Henry, American football player (d. 2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nicky Hofs, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kevin Kingston, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jeremy Sowers, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Christian Bola\u00f1os, Costa Rican footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Christine Ohuruogu, English runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Te\u00f3filo Guti\u00e9rrez, Colombian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Derek Hough, American actor, singer, and dancer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Todd Redmond, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Matt Ryan, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Marius \u010cinikas, Lithuanian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Timo Simonlatser, Estonian skier<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jodie Taylor, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norwegian cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aleandro Rosi, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nikki Reed, American actress, singer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jennison Myrie-Williams, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mose Masoe, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rain Raadik, Estonian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fabian Giefer, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Charlie Gubb, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Katrina Hart, English runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Guido Pella, Argentine tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Johanna Konta, Australian-English tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper and music producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Abigail Raye, Canadian field hockey player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 17 May 1990 &#8211; Kelsey Grammer was sentenced to 30 days in jail for DWI. 1996 &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. Megan&#8217;s Law was named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, who was raped and killed in 1994. 1997 &#8211; Rebel leader Kabila declared himself president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"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":[83,1222,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-20940","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-may","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5rK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940","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=20940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20943,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions\/20943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}