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Events on April 17

• 1521 The Diet of Worms, chaired by Emperor Charles V, questions Martin Luther, who had traveled there under a guarantee of safe conduct, for the first time about his theses.
• 1869 With the Eimsbütteler Velocipeden-Club, the first German cycling club is established in Altona/Elbe.
• 1919 The American film stars Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and director David Wark Griffith establish the film production company United Artists as a distributor for independent film productions.
• 1933 In protest against the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, the physicist and Nobel laureate James Franck resigns his professorship at the University of Göttingen.
• 1937 At Hampden Park in Glasgow, 149,547 spectators watch the international match between Scotland and England. It is the highest attendance at a football match before the Second World War.
• 1945 Leopold Kunschak, Hans Pernter, Lois Weinberger, Leopold Figl, Julius Raab, and Felix Hurdes found the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) at the Schottenstift in Vienna.
• 1958 In Brussels, the first world exposition since 1939 is opened. The Atomium, built for this occasion, becomes the city's landmark.
• 1964 At the World's Fair in New York, automaker Ford presents the Ford Mustang model. The technically Ford Falcon-based vehicle thus gives rise to the “pony car” class.
• 1970 After a spectacular four-day rescue operation, the astronauts of the failed Apollo 13 mission, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, return to Earth. After splashdown in the Pacific, they are taken aboard the Iwo Jima safe and sound.
• 1979 The first kiosk issue of the left-wing alternative national daily newspaper taz is published in Berlin. The newspaper presents itself as an alternative to the previously exclusively bourgeois-oriented newspaper market.
• 1989 At Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a mass demonstration is held in memory of the Chinese reform politician Hu Yaobang, who had died two days earlier.
• 1996 The news website Heise online publishes its first news bulletin.

Born on April 17

• 1870 Max Berg, German architect
• 1882 Artur Schnabel, Austrian pianist and composer
• 1900 Gebhard Müller, German jurist and politician, state parliament member, Minister-President, member of the Bundestag, President of the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1912 Marta Eggerth, Hungarian operetta singer and film actress
• 1931 Bill Ramsey, German-American jazz and pop singer, journalist, and actor
• 1940 Siegfried Jerusalem, German singer
• 1951 Horst Hrubesch, German football player, coach, and administrator
• 1991 Oğuz Yılmaz, German-Turkish web video producer
• 1992 Shkodran Mustafi, German football player
• 2000 Maurice Conrad, German climate activist and politician

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „17. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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