What happend on 17th May

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18.05
1915

The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.

1902

Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism.

1900

Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.

1875

Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.

1865

The International Telegraph Union (the later International Telecommunication Union) is established.

1863

Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.

1846

The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.

1814

Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.

1809

Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.

1792

The New York Stock Exchange is formed.