📜 This Day in History
June 17
653Pope Martin I was arrested in the Lateran Palace, Rome, and taken to Constantinople.- 1579Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
- 1861American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the world's first military movements of troops by train.
- 1919Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.
- 1972Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee, igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of US president Richard Nixon more than two years later.
- 2017Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people.
