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Today is Wednesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2026. There are 197 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

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Today in history:<\/h4>\n

On June 17, 1775, the Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory for the British, who suffered heavy losses.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1885, the Statue of Liberty, disassembled and packed into 214 separate crates, arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French frigate Is\u00e8re.<\/p>\n

In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which boosted U.S. tariffs to historically high levels, prompting foreign retaliation.<\/p>\n

In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Abington (Pennsylvania) School District v. Schempp, struck down, 8-1, rules requiring the recitation of the Lord\u2019s Prayer or the reading of biblical verses in public schools.<\/p>\n

In 1972, President Richard Nixon\u2019s eventual downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C.\u2019s, Watergate complex.<\/p>\n

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In 1994, after leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. (Simpson was acquitted of the murders in a criminal trial in 1995, but held liable in a civil trial in 1997.)<\/p>\n

In 2008, hundreds of same-sex couples got married across California on the first full day that same-sex marriage became legal by order of the state\u2019s highest court; an estimated 11,000 same-sex couples would be married under the California law in its first three months.<\/p>\n

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In 2015, nine Black worshippers were killed when a gunman opened fire during a Bible study gathering at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. (Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, was captured the next day; he would be convicted on state and federal murder and hate crime charges and sentenced to death.)<\/p>\n

In 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, creating the first new national holiday since the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n
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  • Filmmaker Ken Loach is 90.<\/li>\n
  • Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is 83.<\/li>\n
  • Musician Barry Manilow is 83.<\/li>\n
  • Comedian Joe Piscopo is 75.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Jon Gries is 69.<\/li>\n
  • Filmmaker Bobby Farrelly is 68.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Thomas Haden Church is 66.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Greg Kinnear is 63.<\/li>\n
  • Olympic speed skating gold medalist Dan Jansen is 61.<\/li>\n
  • Fashion designer Tory Burch is 60.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Jason Patric is 60.<\/li>\n
  • Actor-comedian Will Forte is 56.<\/li>\n
  • Latin pop singer-songwriter Paulina Rubio is 55.<\/li>\n
  • Tennis Hall of Famer Leander Paes is 53.<\/li>\n
  • Tennis star Venus Williams is 46.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Jodie Whittaker is 44.<\/li>\n
  • Rapper Kendrick Lamar is 39.<\/li>\n
  • Actor KJ Apa is 29.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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