17 Aprile

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The 17t o Aprile is the 107t day o the year (108t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 258 days ti come.

Events

1521 - Martin Luther speaks tae the assembly at the Diet o Worms.
1861 - Virginie secedes frae the Unitit States.
1907 - The Ellis Island Immigration Centre in New York Ceety processes 11,747 fowk in a single day.
1912 - Roushie troops shuit strikin gowdfield wirkers in Northeastren Siberie, killin at least 50 fowk.
1937 - The cartoon chairacter Daffy Duck maks his debut.
1941 - Warld War II: The Kinrick o Yugoslavie surrenders tae Germany.
1946 - Sirie gains full unthirldom frae Fraunce.
1949 - At midnicht, 26 Erse coonties offeecially leave the Breetish Commonweel, creatin the Republic o Ireland.
1951 - The Peak District in North-Central Ingland becomes the first Naitional Pairk in the Unitit Kinrick.
1970 - Apollo 13 returns safely tae the yird.
1975 - Pol Pot taks ower in Cambodie.
1982 - Canadae gets full legislative unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
2013 - New Zealand's pairlament approves the legalisation o same-sex mairage.
2013 - The funeral o Margaret Thatcher taks place in Lunnon.
2013 - A fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, kills 15 fowk.
2019 - Umwhile Peruvian Preses Alan Garcia commits suicide bi gunshot as polis prepare tae arrest him on corruption chairges.
2019 - The Varsity o Aiberdeen remuives an honorar degree frae Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah o Brunei, ower the introduction o the daith penalty for gay sex in the kintra.
2019 - A bus cairryin German tourists crashes in Madeira, Portugal, killin 29 fowk.

1720 - James Drummond, 2nt Duke o Perth, Scots nobleman (b. 1674)
1790 - Benjamin Franklin, American polymath (b. 1706)
1892 - Alexander Mackenzie, Scots-born Prime meenister o Canadae (b. 1822)
1913 - Agnes McLaren, Scots medicinar (b. 1837)
1932 - Patrick Geddes, Scots biologist, sociologist, geografer, philanthropist an toun planner (b. 1854)
1942 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French pheesicist (d. 1870)
1975 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Preses o Indie (b. 1888)
1976 - Henrik Dam, Dens chemist (b. 1895)
1998 - Linda McCartney, American designer an photographer (b. 1941)
2014 - Karpal Singh, Malaysie politeecian (b. 1940)
2014 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombie writer (b. 1927)
2015 - Francis George, American cardinal (b. 1937)
2018 - Barbara Bush, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1925)
2019 - Alan Garcia, Preses o Peru (b. 1949)