May 17 in History

• 1510

  May 17, 1510:

  Florentine Renaissance artist, Sandro Botticelli, dies.

• 1792

  May 17, 1792:

  The New York Stock Exchange is formed by 24 merchants at Wall Street.

• 1875

  May 17, 1875:

  Racehorse Aristides becomes the winner of the first Kentucky Derby.

• 1939

  May 17, 1939:

  NBC broadcasts the very first baseball game to be televised. The match is between Princeton and Columbia.

• 1954

  May 17, 1954:

  The United States Supreme Court rules public school racial segregation as unconstitutional.

• 2004

  May 17, 2004:

  Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage, becoming the first state in the US to do so.

• 2015

  May 17, 2015:

  Twenty One Pilots release their 4th album, “Blurryface”, which would became the first-ever album to receive a gold certification for each track.

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