The Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory for the British, who suffered heavy losses.
Today is Wednesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2026. There are 197 days left in the year. On June 17, 1775, the Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory for the British, who suffered heavy losses.
In 1885, the Statue of Liberty, disassembled and packed into 214 separate crates, arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French frigate Isère. In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which boosted U.S. tariffs to historically high levels, prompting foreign retaliation. In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Abington School District v. Schempp, struck down, 8-1, rules requiring the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer or the reading of biblical verses in public schools.
In 1972, President Richard Nixon’s eventual downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. ’s, Watergate complex. In 1994, after leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In 2008, hundreds of same-sex couples got married across California on the first full day that same-sex marriage became legal by order of the state’s highest court; an estimated 11,000 same-sex couples would be married under the California law in its first three months.
In 2015, nine Black worshippers were killed when a gunman opened fire during a Bible study gathering at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, creating the first new national holiday since the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Musician Barry Manilow is 83. Actor Thomas Haden Church is 66. Fashion designer Tory Burch is 60.
Latin pop singer-songwriter Paulina Rubio is 55. Actor Jodie Whittaker is 44.
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