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Notable anniversaries in history for today: June 17
- 80th: 1944 - Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
- 80th: 1944 - Death of Samuel W. Brown at age 64 in North Tonawanda, New York; original source of five US 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coins.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Mark Linn-Baker in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actor (Larry Appleton - Perfect Strangers, Twins, Hanging With Mr. Cooper).
- 70th: 1954 - Death of Danny Cedrone of a broken neck from falling down a staircase; guitarist ("Rock Around The Clock").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Michael Gross in Federal Republic of Germany; swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984).
- 50th: 1974 - Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 and #3083.
- 50th: 1974 - Death of Pamela Britton of a brain tumor at age 50; actress (Blondie - Blondie, Mrs. Lorelei Brown - My Favorite Martian).
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Chet Allen at age 51; actor (Amahl - Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), Jerry - Bonino, Slats - Troubleshooter).
- 40th: 1984 - Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses and dies.
- 30th: 1994 - The 1994 FIFA World Cup soccer competition begins in the United States.
- 15th: 2009 - Former American HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy is ordered to pay US$2.9 billion after a judge found him responsible for an accounting fraud that nearly bankrupted the hospital chain.
- 15th: 2009 - Ivan Rodriguez, back catcher for the Houston Astros, catches his 2,227th game, beating the old record in Major League Baseball.
- 10th: 2014 - In New York City, New York, USA, Sotheby's auctions a unique British Guiana 1856 1-cent black on magenta postage stamp for US$9.48 million, to Stuart Weitzman.
- 5th: 2019 - A triple suicide blast kills 30 and injures over 40 in Borno, Nigeria, at a hall where people were watching a football match.
- 5th: 2019 - Sotheby's auction company of England is bought by Patrick Drahi for US$3.7 billion.
- 5th: 2019 - Death of Mohamed Morsi at age 67 of a heart attack in a court in Egypt; 5th President of Egypt (born 1951).
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