What happend on 17th April

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2002

Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War.

2001

Barry Bonds becomes the 17th member of the 500 home run club at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco, California.

1991

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever gaining 17.58 to 3,004.46.

1986

Treaty signed, ending Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly.

1984

Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by automatic gunfire coming from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London. She had been policing a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten other people are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.

1982

Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

1976

During his unsuccessful re-election bid, U.S. President Gerald Ford appears as himself on Saturday Night Live.

1975

Cambodian Civil War ends: The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.

1970

Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.

1969

Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.