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Notable anniversaries in history for today: May 17
- 100th: 1924 - 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Lord Tombs; CEO (Rolls Royce).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Ronald Wayne; co-founded Apple Computer Corporation.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Earl Morrall; NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions, New York Giants, Indianapolis Colts).
- 80th: 1944 - Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Arif Butt; cricket player (pace bowler for Pakistan in three Tests 1964-65).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Canon P B Price; General Secretary, USPG.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jesse Winchester in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA; singer/songwriter ("Learn to Love it").
- 80th: 1944 - Chinese/US armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma.
- 80th: 1944 - General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th.
- 80th: 1944 - Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of John Iles; dolby supervisor (Elephant Man, Richard III).
- 70th: 1954 - U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional.
- 60th: 1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational.
- 60th: 1964 - Otto V Kuusinen, President of Karelo-Finnish Soviet Republic (1940-56), dies 82.
- 60th: 1964 - Philadelphia Phillies triple-play Houston Colt .45s.
- 50th: 1974 - Bayern München wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels, Belgium.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Marcia Turner in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Miss America (Massachusetts-Top 10-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town), dies at age 49.
- 40th: 1984 - Cincinnati Reds' Mario Soto throws four strikeouts in one inning.
- 40th: 1984 - Mai Shanley, age 21 of New Mexico, crowned 33rd Miss USA.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Gordon Sinclair at age 83 after a heart attack; journalist (Toronto Star, "Let's Be Personal" on CFRB), panelist (Front Page Challenge).
- 30th: 1994 - Alain Cuny [René X Marie], French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at age 85.
- 30th: 1994 - Andrew Brown, film producer, dies at age 55.
- 30th: 1994 - Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election.
- 30th: 1994 - Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Henry Jones at age 86 of complications from injuries suffered in a fall; character actor (Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Kraft TV Theatre, Playhouse 90, Studio One, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Mrs. Columbo, Gun Shy).
- 25th: 1999 - Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel.
- 20th: 2004 - Ezzedine Salim, holder of the rotating leadership of the Iraqi Governing Council, is killed in a bomb blast in Baghdad.
- 20th: 2004 - Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage in compliance with a ruling from the state's Supreme Judicial Court (Goodridge v. Department of Public Health).
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Tony Randall AKA Leonard Rosenberg at age 84 of pneumonia following heart surgery; actor (Reggie - I Love a Mystery radio show, Mr. Peepers TV show, The Odd Couple, The Tony Randall Show, Love Sidney).
- 15th: 2009 - In Pau, France, round 4 of the FIA World Touring Car Championship is held. Race 1 is won by Rob Huff; race 2 is won by Alain Menu.
- 15th: 2009 - In Le Mans, France, round 4 of the FIM MotoGP Championship is won by Jorge Lorenzo.
- 15th: 2009 - Dalia Grybauskaite is elected Lithuania's first female president, with 68 percent of votes.
- 5th: 2019 - The parliament of the Republic of China (Taiwan) becomes the first in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage.
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