Anniversaries of June 17

Santo Domingo.- The anniversaries of June 17th, June, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left a mark on world history. Below are the main anniversaries of June 17th: June:

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World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
Germany: Federal Republic of Germany Public Holiday.
Argentina: Death of General Martín Miguel de Güemes.
National Day of Latin American Freedom.
National Tarefero Day.

Saints’ Day: Saint Teresa, Queen of Portugal and Saints Blastus and Diogenes, martyrs.

National: Anniversaries of June 17

1845: The Battle of Cachimán takes place, won by Dominican troops under the command of Generals Antonio Duvergé and Felipe Alfau, as well as Colonel Francisco Pimentel.
1901: An agreement is signed between the Dominican and Haitian governments to officially delimit the border line of both nations.
1903: Physician, politician, and writer Juan Isidro Jimenes Grullón is born in Santo Domingo.
1905: Dominican Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, liberator of Cuba, passes away in Havana.
1959: The June 14th expeditionary Juan de Dios Ventura Simó is handed over by a group of farmers to a military patrol to prevent his assassination in the La Cotorra section.
1960: Juan Manuel Sonoja, Manuel Vicente Yéñez Bustamante, Luis Cabrera Sifonte, and José Morales Hernández arrive in Santo Domingo from Venezuela to collect the detonator to be used in the attack against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt.
1961: Following instructions from Ramfis Trujillo, Porfirio Rubirosa begins efforts in New York to lift the economic sanctions imposed by the OAS against the country.
1962: In a statement published in the newspaper El Caribe, the National Civic Union enters the political scene as a non-partisan citizens’ movement, led by doctors Viriato Fiallo and Ángel Severo Cabral.
1965: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares that he had ordered the deployment of U.S. Marines to the Dominican Republic, “due to the beheading of 1,500 people” by constitutionalist combatants.
1977: The leadership of the Dominican Communist Party (PCD) requests from President Joaquín Balaguer, and he grants it, legal recognition to participate in the following year’s elections.
1988: President Joaquín Balaguer issues decree 191/88, through which he orders the reinstatement to the National Army and appoints former General Elías Wessin y Wessin as Secretary of the Armed Forces, whom he had accused in 1971 of being an “impenitent conspirator” against his government.
2003: Historian Bernardo Vega publishes an article in the morning newspaper El Caribe, based on reports from the U.S. embassy in the country, which reveals the assassination of at least 53 soldiers from the San Isidro Air Base in 1959 by the Trujillo dictatorship.
2005: Jurist Marino Vinicio Castillo appeals the sentence that declares him not guilty of having violated Law 6132 on Expression and Dissemination of Thought against Hernani Salazar, but sentences him to pay RD$1 million and the legal costs of the case.
2007: The voices of Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Father Luis Rosario, Friar Arístides Jiménez Richardson, Freddy Beras Goico, youth from the Youth Pastoral, and professionals from different areas join the clamor to confront violence, poverty, illiteracy, and the neglect of children.
2014: The Dominican government requests the collaboration of Haitian authorities to provide documentation to their nationals, in order to expedite their naturalization process, as required by Constitutional Court ruling 168/13.
2015: The 18-month deadline granted to undocumented immigrants residing in the country to register for the National Plan for the Regularization of Foreigners in Irregular Status ends.
President Danilo Medina changes his position on reelection and accepts to be a candidate for a new constitutional term in the May 15, 2016 elections.
2018: The PLD’s Organization and Finance secretaries, Félix Bautista and Víctor Díaz Rúa, are provisionally suspended from their positions for having judicial proceedings for corruption. The measure must be confirmed or revoked by the entity’s Political Committee.
2020: The Ministry of Public Health issues a resolution declaring a state of national epidemic due to the COVID-19 coronavirus health crisis.
-The American newspaper USA Today reveals that the FBI is investigating a scandal related to the alleged exploitation of hundreds of Dominican minor prospects, who had reached verbal agreements with Major League clubs in exchange for promises of bonuses upon turning 16.
2021: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Álvarez, reiterates that there will be no dialogue with Haiti until the neighboring country halts construction work on the canal to divert water from the Massacre River into its territory.

International: June 17th Anniversaries

1579: English privateer Sir Francis Drake lands on the west coast of North America, in a place he names New Albion, near the current city of San Francisco.
1665: Spanish troops are defeated by Portuguese forces at the Battle of Villaviciosa, in the context of the Portuguese Restoration War.
1673: French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi and become the first Europeans to detail the river’s course.
1789: The French Revolution begins, according to conservative spokesmen of the National Constituent Assembly, Jacques de Cazalès, Gérard de Lally-Tollendal, and Jean-Sifrein Maury.
1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City from France.
1915: France issues helmets to soldiers to prevent head injuries.
1944: The Soviet Union invades the Baltic countries.
-Iceland gains independence from Denmark, thus birthing the current Republic of Iceland.
1953: A workers’ revolt in East Berlin demanding higher wages, more personal freedom, and reunification with West Germany is crushed by the Red Army.
1961: Rudolf Nureyev, principal dancer of the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, requests political asylum after a performance in Paris.
1963: In the United States, prayer in schools is declared unconstitutional.
1972: The espionage scandal at the Democratic Party offices in the Watergate hotel, sponsored by President Richard Nixon, comes to light.
1982: Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri resigns after the defeat against the United Kingdom and the loss of the Falkland Islands.
1991: The South African parliament repeals the apartheid law, after more than four decades in effect.
1992: The Cuban government dismisses Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, son of the revolutionary leader, as head of the Secretariat of Nuclear Affairs, for “inefficiency.”
2001: The National Movement Simeon II, a coalition of the last Bulgarian king, reaches almost an absolute majority in the elections.
2002: Rodney King, whose beating by police sparked violent riots in Los Angeles in the nineties, is found dead.
2005: U.S. Peacekeeping Forces suspend their operations in Haiti and withdraw their volunteers due to the increase in violence.
2009: The UN High Commissioner reports that Colombia leads the list of countries with the most displaced people, followed by Sudan and Somalia.
2012: The French Socialist Party obtains an absolute majority in the second round of elections, giving full powers to President François Hollande.
2013: Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas resigns after being implicated in a corruption scandal.
2014: A Ukrainian guerrilla group shoots down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, killing 289 people. It is speculated that they mistook the plane for that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2015: The Cairo Criminal Court confirms the death penalty against Mohamed Morsi and nearly one hundred Islamists for their prison escape in 2011.
-Dylann Roof, 21, is charged with murdering nine African American parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
2017: An attack at the Andino shopping center in Bogotá leaves 3 dead and 9 injured.
2018: The Attorney General of Ecuador requests precautionary measures against Rafael Correa for a kidnapping case.
-Iñaki Urdangarin, brother-in-law of King Felipe VI, enters prison for fraud and tax evasion.
-The president-elect of Colombia, Iván Duque, announces corrections to the peace agreement with the FARC.
2019: Mohamed Morsi dies during a trial for espionage.
-The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the possibility of being tried for the same crime at both the state and federal levels.
2020: The U.S. Department of Justice seeks to block the publication of John Bolton’s book.
-Facebook removes an ad from Donald Trump’s campaign for using a Nazi symbol.
2021: The World Bank refuses to provide technical assistance to the government of El Salvador.
-The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, travels to Turkey to participate in the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.

Births: June 17th Anniversaries

Anniversaries of June 17 | De Último Minuto English — María Tereza Montoya

1854: Lindor Pérez Gacitúa, Chilean military officer.
1882: Igor Stravinsky, Russian musician and composer.
1892: Manuel Anzuela Montoya, Spanish sculptor.
1898: María Tereza Montoya, Mexican theatrical entrepreneur and actress.
1900: Martin Bormann, German politician, Hitler’s private secretary in Nazi Germany.
1903: Juan Isidro Jimenes Grullón, Dominican physician, politician, and writer.
1929: Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait between 2006 and 2020.
1968: Mari Sano, Japanese artist.
1971: Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer.
1980: Venus Williams, American tennis player and designer.