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| May 17th, 2007 (May 17 2007) | Event | Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953. | |
| May 17th, 2007 (May 17 2007) | Death | Lloyd Alexander, author (born in 1924) | |
| May 17th, 1997 (May 17 1997) | Event | Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. | |
| May 17th, 1987 (May 17 1987) | Event | An Iraqi fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. warship USS Stark (FFG-31), killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew. | |
| May 17th, 1987 (May 17 1987) | Death | Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1898) | |
| May 17th, 1967 (May 17 1967) | Event | Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt. | |
| May 17th, 1957 (May 17 1957) | Birth | Pascual Perez, Dominican baseball player | |
| May 17th, 1947 (May 17 1947) | Death | George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (born in 1869) | |
| May 17th, 1937 (May 17 1937) | Birth | Hazel R. O Leary, United States Secretary of Energy | |
| May 17th, 1937 (May 17 1937) | Death | Guillame Furret, Portuguese playwright and political activist (born in 1863) | |
| May 17th, 1927 (May 17 1927) | Event | U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania | |
| May 17th, 1927 (May 17 1927) | Death | Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (born in 1884) | |
| May 17th, 1917 (May 17 1917) | Death | Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (born in 1829) | |
| May 17th, 1897 (May 17 1897) | Birth | Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1981) | |
| May 17th, 1807 (May 17 1807) | Death | John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (born in 1745) | |
| May 17th, 1797 (May 17 1797) | Death | Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (born in 1719) | |
| May 17th, 1727 (May 17 1727) | Death | Catherine I of Russia (born in 1684) | |
