1916<\/strong> – The American Academy of Arts and Letters obtained a charter from the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – A bill in Congress to establish Daylight Saving Time was defeated. It was passed a couple of months later.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – “Lights Out” debuted on NBC Radio. It ran until 1952.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Igor Sikorsky accomplished the first successful helicopter lift-off from water near Stratford, CT.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – The office of Price Administration was established in the U.S. to handle rationing.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – The last French troops left Syria.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – Jackie Robinson (Brooklyn Dodgers) performed a bunt for his first major league hit.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – About 1,400 U.S.-supported Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was an unsuccessful attack.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – Jerrie Mock became the first woman to fly an airplane solo around the world.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – “The Joey Bishop Show” debuted on ABC-TV.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court barred Muhammad Ali’s request to be blocked from induction into the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – In Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek was deposed.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> –\u00a0Apollo 13<\/i> returned to Earth safely after an onboard accident with an oxygen tank.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – Khmer Rouge forces captured the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. It was the end of the five-year war.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – In Warsaw, police routed 1,000 Solidarity supporters.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – In New York, a transit strike that began on March 7 ended.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – In London, demonstrators outside the Libyan Embassy were fired upon from someone inside. Eleven people were injured and an English Policewoman was killed.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The U.S. Postal Service unveiled its new 22-cent, “LOVE” stamp.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – In Lebanon, the cabinet resigned as Shiites took W. Beirut.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – In Sri Lanka, Tamil guerrillas killed 122 people in a road ambush.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – In Poland, courts gave Solidarity legal status.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing their parents.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In India, the government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee collapsed after losing a vote of confidence.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – At the National Maritime Museum in London, the exhibit “Skin Deep – A History of Tattooing” opened.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0Palestinian\u00a0suicide bomber\u00a0detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0An explosion\u00a0at a fertilizer plant in the city of\u00a0West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0NASA’s\u00a0Kepler space telescope\u00a0confirms the discovery of\u00a0the first Earth-size planet\u00a0in the\u00a0habitable zone\u00a0of another star.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A tourist bus overturned on the Portuguese island of Madeira, killing 29 passengers mostly German tourists.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 17 April 1916 – The American Academy of Arts and Letters obtained a charter from the U.S. Congress. 1917 – A bill in Congress to establish Daylight Saving Time was defeated. 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