Do you know what happened today in History 

17th May in History

1756: Britain declared war against France.

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1865: Celebration of World Telecommunication Day started.

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1970: Thor Heyerdahl started the journey from Morocco and crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 57 days.

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1975: Japanese woman Mrs. Junko Taibei became the first woman to climb Mount Everest.

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1987: Sunil Gavaskar retired from Test cricket.

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2002: The dead body of American journalist Daniel Pearl was recovered from the cemetery in Pakistan.

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1749: Edward Jenner, the famous physician, and inventor of the 'smallpox' vaccine, was born.

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