What happend on 17th June

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1948

A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.

1944

Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic.

1940

The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.

1940

World War II: Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.

1940

World War II: Operation Ariel begins

1939

Last public execution in France. Eugene Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.

1933

Union Station Massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.

1930

Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.

1930

U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law.

1928

Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic.