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New York Stock Exchange
President Jacques Chirac of France
Notre-Dame Church, Montreal
Anne of Denmark in 1612
The sinking of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Rosalía de Castro
Main fragment of the Antikythera mechanism
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Coco Chanel
Poster for Cavalleria rusticana

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Constitution Day in Norway (1814);	unreferenced section
1642 – The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal founded Fort Ville-Marie, a permanent mission that eventually grew into the Canadian city of Montreal.	several unreferenced sections
1792 – Twenty-four stockbrokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement to establish the New York Stock Exchange.	refimprove section
1814 – The Constitution of Norway was signed and Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik was elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.	refimprove
1863 – Rosalía de Castro published the first book in the Galician language: Cantares gallegos, a collection of her poetry.	unreferenced section
1875 – The American Thoroughbred racehorse Aristides won the first running of the Kentucky Derby.	Aristedes: refimprove; Derby: refimprove section
1900 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Mafeking in South Africa was lifted after 217 days, a decisive victory for the British against the Boers.	lots of CN tags (6)
1980 – On the eve of the Peruvian general election, the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacked a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the internal conflict in Peru.	{{prose}}
1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon began in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that resulted in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.	unreferenced section
1995 – After 18 years as Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac was inaugurated as President of France.	refimprove section
1997 – The First Congo War came to an end when Laurent-Désiré Kabila proclaimed himself president of Zaire, which was also renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.	refimprove section
2006 – The U.S. Navy deliberately sank the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany, the largest vessel ever sunk to create an artificial reef.	multiple issues
* 2009 – Dalia Grybauskaitė became the first woman to be elected as president of Lithuania, receiving 69.1 percent of the vote.	Missing citations
Galician Literature Day in Galicia, Spain	Stubby, undercited

Eligible

1395 – An outnumbered Wallachian army repulsed invading Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rovine.
1521 – Edward Stafford, whose father had been beheaded for rebelling against King Richard III of England, was himself executed for treason against King Henry VIII.
1865 – The International Telecommunication Union, which standardizes and regulates international radio and telecommunications, was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris.
1890 – The opera Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, premieres at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, beginning the verismo period in Italian opera.
1902 – The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.
1914 – Under the Protocol of Corfu, the Principality of Albania officially recognized Northern Epirus as an autonomous self-governing region.
1947 – After renegotiating a contract with the makers of her signature perfume Chanel No. 5, Coco Chanel (pictured) received a share of wartime profits from its sale, making her one of the richest women in the world.
1974 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a series of car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, killing 34 people and injuring almost 300 others.
1995 – Six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, was kidnapped by the Chinese government, who advocated a proxy.
2000 – Following the killing of two English football fans by Galatasaray supporters in the previous month, British and Turkish hooligans rioted on the day of the UEFA Cup Final in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2004 – Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
Born/died this day: |Mary, Queen of Hungary |d|1395| Martin Delrio |b|1551| Samuel Clarke |d|1729| Sebastian Kneipp |b|1821| Cool Papa Bell |b|1903| Clara Ayres |d|1917| Dorothy Levitt |d|1922| Chen-Lu Tsou |b|1923| Hazel R. O'Leary |b|1937| Robert Sterling Yard |d|1945| B. S. Chandrasekhar |b|1945| Enya |b|1961| Jeannette Piccard |d|1981

Notes

2008 UEFA Cup Final riots appears on May 14, so 2000 riots should not appear in the same year
Plessy v. Ferguson appears on May 18, so Brown v. Board of Education should not appear in the same year

May 17: International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

Anne of Denmark

1590 – Anne of Denmark (pictured) was crowned the queen consort of Scotland in a ceremony at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh.
1863 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Big Black River Bridge in Mississippi, Union forces under John A. McClernand defeated a Confederate rearguard and captured around 1,700 men.
1900 – The first copies of the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum were printed.
1954 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation in public schools because "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and therefore unconstitutional.
1987 – An Iraqi jet fired two Exocet missiles at the American frigate USS Stark, killing 37 personnel and injuring 21 others.

Caroline of Brunswick (b. 1768)
Erik Satie (b. 1866)
Little Gerhard (b. 1934)
Maggie Laubser (d. 1973)

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