February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Day of death May 17, 1943
The temperature on May 17, 1943 was between 3.0 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 16 » The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
June 24 » US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
September 7 » A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.
October 13 » World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
October 14 » World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
October 17 » The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
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