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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_17" title="June 17">June 17</a></b>:
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1579" title="1579">1579</a> – Explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake" title="Francis Drake">Francis Drake</a> landed in a region of present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, naming it <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Albion" title="New Albion">New Albion</a></b> and claiming it for England.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1631" title="1631">1631</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumtaz_Mahal" title="Mumtaz Mahal">Mumtaz Mahal</a></b>, wife of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emperors_of_the_Mughal_Empire" title="List of emperors of the Mughal Empire">Mughal emperor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jahan" title="Shah Jahan">Shah Jahan</a>, died in childbirth; Jahan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_and_architecture_of_the_Taj_Mahal" title="Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal">spent the next seventeen years</a> constructing her mausoleum, the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal" title="Taj Mahal">Taj Mahal</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a> – Hundreds of Canadian soldiers <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsom_riot" title="Epsom riot">rioted</a></b> in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952" title="1952">1952</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Revolution" title="Guatemalan Revolution">Guatemalan Revolution</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_the_Republic_of_Guatemala" title="Congress of the Republic of Guatemala">Guatemalan Congress</a> passed <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_900" title="Decree 900">Decree 900</a></b>, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0.91 km<sup>2</sup>) in area to local peasants.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher" title="M. C. Escher"><span class="nowrap">M. C.</span> Escher</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1898); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gagnon" title="Richard Gagnon">Richard Gagnon</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1948); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amari_Cooper" title="Amari Cooper">Amari Cooper</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1994); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Morsi" title="Mohamed Morsi">Mohamed Morsi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2019)</p>
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