This Day in History: May 17, 2025
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1792
The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.
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1875
The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky.
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1938
NBC aired the Information Please quiz show on the radio for the first time.
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1954
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education.
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1973
Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin.
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1987
An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62.
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1997
Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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2004
In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.
