Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 17

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 * 1395 – An outnumbered Wallachian army repulsed invading Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rovine.
 * 1521 – Edward Stafford, whose father had been beheaded for rebelling against King Richard III of England, was himself executed for treason against King Henry VIII.
 * 1865 – The International Telecommunication Union, which standardizes and regulates international radio and telecommunications, was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris.
 * 1902 – The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.
 * 1914 – Under the Protocol of Corfu, the Principality of Albania officially recognized Northern Epirus as an autonomous self-governing region.
 * 1947 – After renegotiating a contract with the makers of her signature perfume Chanel No. 5, Coco Chanel (pictured) received a share of wartime profits from its sale, making her one of the richest women in the world.
 * 1974 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a series of car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, killing 34 people and injuring almost 300 others.
 * 1995 – Six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, was kidnapped by the Chinese government, who advocated a proxy.
 * 2000 – Following the killing of two English football fans by Galatasaray supporters in the previous month, British and Turkish hooligans rioted on the day of the UEFA Cup Final in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 * 2004 – Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
 * Born/died this day: |Mary, Queen of Hungary |d|1395| Martin Delrio |b|1551|  Samuel Clarke |d|1729| Sebastian Kneipp |b|1821| Cool Papa Bell |b|1903| Clara Ayres |d|1917| Dorothy Levitt |d|1922| Chen-Lu Tsou  |b|1923| Hazel R. O'Leary |b|1937| Robert Sterling Yard |d|1945| B. S. Chandrasekhar |b|1945| Enya |b|1961| Jeannette Piccard   |d|1981