What happened on 17 June?

11 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1972 Watergate scandal Cover-up of a 1972 burglary leads to Richard Nixon becoming the only US president to resign.
2. 1972 Break-in at the Watergate Five men in business suits with cash, cameras and bugging equipment are arrested inside Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex at 2:30 in the morning. One has the White H
3. 1789 The Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly Locked in stalemate at the Estates-General over voting by head or by order, France's commoner deputies simply declare themselves the nation's true representative body. It is the Re
4. 1987 Born: Kendrick Lamar Pulitzer-Prize winning rapper.
5. 1958 Things Fall Apart published Chinua Achebe's debut novel; a touchstone of post-colonial African literature.
6. 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill Costly British tactical victory near Boston; "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"; emboldens American resistance.
7. 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff US tariffs that worsened the global trade collapse during the Depression.
8. 1953 East German uprising of 1953 Strikes and street protests across East Germany suppressed by Soviet troops; first major Eastern Bloc revolt.
9. 1873 Susan B. Anthony tried for voting Anthony votes in Rochester, is arrested, and is convicted by a judge who directs the verdict and then refuses to jail her in case she appeals.
10. 1944 Iceland becomes a republic With occupied Denmark unable to object, Iceland ends five centuries of Danish rule and declares a republic at Þingvellir, where the Althing first met.
11. 1462 Night Attack at Târgoviște Vlad the Impaler raids Mehmed II's camp by night trying to kill the sultan; the invaders later find a 'forest' of impaled prisoners outside his capital and withdraw.