April 17 in Pop Culture History |
| April 17th is… Bat Appreciation Day Blah, Blah, Blah Day Cheeseball Day Crawfish Day Ellis Island Family History Day Ford Mustang Day Haiku Poetry Day Kickball Day Nothing Like A Dame Day Patriots’ Day World Hemophilia Day |
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1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer told The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. 1815 (Volcano) Tambora volcano in Indonesia killed almost 100,000 people. 1861 – The first oil well fire occurred at the Little and Merrick well at Oil Creek, near Rouseville, Pennsylvania, killing 19 people. 1897 – A UFO supposedly crashed into a farm owned by J.S. Proctor in Aurora, Texas. 1906 – San Francisco was hit by a disastrous earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.8. 1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center in New York processed 11,747 people, more than on any other day. 1937 – Daffy Duck’s first appearance was in Porky’s Duck Hunt. 1960 – Singer Eddie Cochran died, and Gene Vincent was injured in a UK car accident. 1961 – The unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion began. 1964 – Geraldine ‘Jerrie’ Mock landed in Columbus, Ohio, becoming the first woman to complete a solo airplane flight around the world. 1964 – The Ford Mustang as introduced to the North American market. 1966 – Policemen Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff reported chasing a UFO at 5:00 AM in Portage County, Ohio. 1971 – #1 Hit April 17, 1971 – May 28, 1971: Three Dog Night – Joy to the World 1973 (Tornado) Balurchar, Bangladesh 1979 – The worst attended MLB game occurred in Oakland on 4/17/1979 – Only 250 people showed up. 1987 – Project X was released in theaters. 2011 – Game of Thrones premiered on HBO 2014 – NASA’s Kepler confirmed the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star. 2015 – Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and Unfriended debuted in theaters. #1 Hit April 17, 2021 – April 23, 2021: Leave the Door Open – Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) |
