Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 17

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 * 653 – Pope Martin I was arrested in the Lateran Palace, Rome, and taken to Constantinople.
 * 1397 – The kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Eric of Pomerania.
 * 1462 – Hungarian–Ottoman Wars: Wallachian forces led by Vlad Dracula attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Sultan Mehmed II.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
 * 1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.
 * 1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the world's first military movements of troops by train.
 * 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts from Qing China after a brief but bloody battle.
 * 1913 – In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.
 * 1940 – Second World War: RMS Lancastria was sunk by German aircraft near Saint-Nazaire, France, causing thousands of fatalities in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
 * 1963 – Riots broke out in Saigon one day after the signing of the Joint Communiqué, an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.
 * 2015 – A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people during a prayer service.
 * 2017 – Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people.
 * Born/died this day: | Bolesław I the Brave|d|1025| Gauhar Ara Begum |b|1631| John Kay |b|1704| Daskalogiannis |d|1771| J. H. Hobart Ward|b|1823| Susan La Flesche Picotte |b|1865| Carl Van Vechten |b|1880| M. C. Escher |b|1898| Carmen Casco de Lara Castro |b|1918| Annie S. Swan |d|1943| Ken Livingstone |b|1945| Richard Gagnon |b|1948| Isabelle Delobel |b|1978|  Grace Towns Hamilton |d|1992| Amari Cooper|b|1994|Ankita Bhakat|b|1998| Mohamed Morsi |d|2019|