Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 17
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June 17: Independence Day in Iceland (1944)
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
- 1789 - French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly.
- 1961 - Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of the CCF and organised labour.
- 1972 - Watergate scandal: Five men were arrested for burglarising the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel.
- 1994 - O. J. Simpson was chased down and arrested on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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