Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 17
June 17: Icelandic National Day.
- 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia (pictured) attacked an Ottoman Empire camp at night in an attempt to assassinate Mehmed II.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
- 1789 - French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly.
- 1953 - In Berlin, the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei violently suppressed an uprising against the East German government.
- 1972 - Watergate scandal: Five men were arrested for stealing from the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex.