JUNE 17 IN HISTORY

Historical events that took place on the 16th of June



 
1882: Tornado killed 130 in Iowa

1885: The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City

1911: Belgium government of De Broqueville forms

1932: An Oil tanker exploded in Montreal, Canada

1933: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops and 1 gangster were killed by mob in the Kansas City massacre

1938: Japan declared war on China

1944: Iceland declared independence from Denmark

1950: 1st kidney transplant took place in Chicago (USA)

1967: 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb exploded

1972: Allende, the President of Chile formed a new government

1982: President Galtieri resigned after leading Argentina to defeat

1988: Microsoft released MS DOS 4.0

1991: South Africa abolished the last of its apartheid laws

2011: In an effort to fund rising social security costs, the Japanese government decided to double its sales tax over 4 years

2013: Petr Necas, the Prime minister of Czech Republic resigned after a corruption scandal

2015: The Japanese parliament voted to lower the nation’s voting age from 20 to 18

 

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