Important events of May 17th

Besides my birthday here are some other important events that happened today.

1673 Marquette and Joliet start exploring the Mississippi river
1775 America bans trade with Canada
1792 the NYSE is formed
1875 1st Kentucky Derby
1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down
1973 Watergate hearings begin


Births
1682 Bartholomew Roberts aka the pirate Black Bart
1866 Erik Satie – composer
1868 Horace Elgin Dodge – founder of Dodge company
1897 Odd Hassel – Nobel Prize winner
1903 Cool Papa Bell – baseball player
1936 Dennis Hopper – actor
1939 Gary Paulsen – writer
1956 Sugar Ray Leonard – boxer
1958 Paul Di’Anno- from Iron Maiden
1961 Enya – singer
1962 Craig Ferguson- comedian
1963 Page McConnell from Phish
1965 Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails
1970 Jordan Knight from New Kids in the Block
1974 Andrea Corr from The Corrs
1974 Sendhil Ramamurthy – actor

Deaths
1336 Emperor Go-Fushimi
1510 Sandro Botticelli- painter
1643 Giovanni Picchi – composer
1727 Catherine I of Russia
1829 John Jay- Chief Justice of USA
1875 John C. Breckinirdge – VP of USA
1886 John Deere – man who liked green
1992 Lawrence Welk – man who like tiny bubbles
1996 Scott Brayton – race car driver
2004 Tony Randall – actor

So, as you can see, not much happened today, so you should have no reason not to spend the day celebrating my birthday. J