June 17, 1900 (Sunday)
- At 3:25 p.m. the ships from the Eight-Nation Alliance started bombardment of the Taku Forts in China and began an invasion. An ultimatum, sent the night before, had expired at 2:00. Ninety minutes into the battle, ammunition magazines inside the forts were destroyed, and the defenders surrendered the next day.
- In Philadelphia, delegates to the upcoming 1900 Republican National Convention, weighed in on the choice for U.S. President William McKinley's running mate, to replace the late vice-president, Garrett Hobart. U.S. Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania announced that 58 of his state's 64 delegates supported New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt. Colorado followed, and soon more states were supporting Roosevelt.
- Born: Martin Bormann, Deputy Führer of Germany, 1941–1945; in Wegeleben, Germany; (disappeared 1945)
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Famous quotes containing the word june:
“Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty’s orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.
Ask me no more whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day;
For in pure love heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)