TOP TEN LISTS
Today in History
Thursday, 17 April 2025
2006
Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing eleven people and injuring 70.
1986
The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
1984
Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
1982
Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
1975
The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
1973
German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 founded.
1971
The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
1970
Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
1969
Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
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