Today is Wednesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2026. There are 197 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\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:<\/p>\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
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
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
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Filmmaker Ken Loach is 90.
\nFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich is 83.
\nMusician Barry Manilow is 83.
\nComedian Joe Piscopo is 75.
\nActor Jon Gries is 69.
\nFilmmaker Bobby Farrelly is 68.
\nActor Thomas Haden Church is 66.
\nActor Greg Kinnear is 63.
\nOlympic speed skating gold medalist Dan Jansen is 61.
\nFashion designer Tory Burch is 60.
\nActor Jason Patric is 60.
\nActor-comedian Will Forte is 56.
\nLatin pop singer-songwriter Paulina Rubio is 55.
\nTennis Hall of Famer Leander Paes is 53.
\nTennis star Venus Williams is 46.
\nActor Jodie Whittaker is 44.
\nRapper Kendrick Lamar is 39.
\nActor KJ Apa is 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Wednesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2026. There are 197 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[129417,129416,139,141,140,26313],"class_list":["post-310276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-battle-of-bunker-hill","tag-june-17-history","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}