May 17<\/p>\n
1792
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
1875
\nThe first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n
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\nNBC aired the Information Please<\/em> quiz show on the radio for the first time.<\/p>\n
\nThe Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education.<\/p>\n
\nTelevised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin.<\/p>\n
\nAn Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62.<\/p>\n
\nLaurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n
\nIn Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.<\/p>\n
\nhero of the American Revolution (1743)<\/p>\n
\nphysician (1749)<\/p>\n
\ncomposer (1866)<\/p>\n
\nIranian Shiite religious leader (1900)<\/p>\n
\nsoprano (1918)<\/p>\n
\nactor, director, producer (1936)<\/p>\n
\nboxer (1956)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"