Friday, May 17, 2019

On This Day in History

May 17, 2019

Historical Events

1527  Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men - by 1536 only 4 survive
1792  24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1803  John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1973  Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
2004  Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
2014  The center-right Hindu Nationalist Party, the BJP, wins landslide election victory in India
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