TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2018

On this day in history:

1540 - Afghan chief Sher Khan defeated Mongul Emperor Humayun at Kanauj.

1630 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi saw the belts on Jupiter’s surface.

1681 - Louis XIV sent an expedition to aid James II in Ireland. As a result, England declares war on France. 1756 - Britain declared war on France, beginning the French and Indian War.

1770 - Lieutenant James Cook names Queensland’s Glass House Mountains.

1814 - Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden. Norway’s constitution, which provided a limited monarchy, was signed. 1940 - Germany occupied Brussels, Belgium and began the invasion of France. 1948 - The Soviet Union recognised the new state of Israel.

1974 - Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.

1983 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. 1990 - The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases. 1994- Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.

1995 - Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.

1997 - Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2000 - Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen

2002 - Legoland Deutschland opened in Günzburg, Germany. 2004 - The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.

2006 - The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef. 2007 - Trains crossed the border dividing North and South Korea for the first time since 1953.

2014 - A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.