On This Very Day
May 17th
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- 1875
First Kentucky Derby held at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky View Post →
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- 1932
US Congress renames Porto Rico to Puerto Rico View Post →
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- 1620
First merry-go-round appears at a fair in Philippopolis, Turkey
- 1979
Record low temperature of 12°F (-11°C) atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii
- 1954
US Supreme Court rules racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional (Brown v. Board of Education)
- 1961
Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
- 1536
Anne Boleyn's four alleged lovers executed before her beheading
- 2007
North and South Korean trains cross the 38th Parallel for the first time since 1953
- 1884
Alaska becomes a US territory
- 1861
James Clerk Maxwell presents the first color photograph of a tartan ribbon
- 1990
World Health Organization declassifies homosexuality as a mental illness
- 1792
New York Stock Exchange founded
- 1964
First Tim Horton's coffee and donut shop opens in Hamilton, Ontario
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