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June 17th, 2008	Event	First day of legal same-sex marriage in California
June 17th, 1994	Event	Following a televised low-speed highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
June 17th, 1992	Event	A Joint Understanding agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
June 17th, 1991	Event	Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
June 17th, 1987	Event	With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
June 17th, 1972	Event	Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
June 17th, 1963	Event	The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord s Prayer in public schools.
June 17th, 1961	Event	The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
June 17th, 1958	Event	The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing being built connecting Vancouver and North Vancouver, Canada, collapses into the Burrard Inlet, killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
June 17th, 1958	Event	The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day

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