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May 17th ....
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
1849 – A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground....
1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.....
1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.....
1956 – Birth of Sugar Ray Leonard and, in 1961 - Enya....
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