June 17: Statue of Liberty, "TU-104" and "MS DOS 4.0"

June 17, 1885 and a New York harbor came a statue of Liberty - a gift of the French people to the United States of America.

1917 - The II All-Ukrainian Military Congress (continued until June 23) was opened in Kiev, during which the autonomy of Ukraine was proclaimed.

1928 - began a non-stop air flight by air across the Atlantic Ocean, during which Amelia Earhart became the first woman to do so. True, she was only the passenger of an airplane, which was controlled by the pilot Wilmer Schulz and the mechanic Alfred Gordon.

1939 - France held the last public execution on the guillotine - in the square near the prison of Saint-Pierre in Versailles the serial murderer Eugene Weidmann was beheaded.

1955 - the first flight of the Soviet passenger jet "TU-104" took place. Until November 11, 1986, when the plane made its last flight, 18% of the TU-104 aircraft suffered disasters - the worst figure among all Soviet aircraft.

1970 - Edwin Herbert Land patented the Polaroid camera.

1972 - American police arrested five intruders who installed electronic eavesdropping devices at the headquarters of the Democratic Party in the hotel complex Watergate, Washington. The scandal that followed, put an end to the political career of President Richard Nixon.

1982 - the first flight of the Ka-50 helicopter took place.

1988 - "Microsoft" released the operating system "MS DOS 4.0".

1990 - the Union "Chernobyl" was established in Kiev.

1991 - The Parliament of South Africa abolished the Act of Population Registration, the basic law on which all other legal acts and laws of the apartheid system were based.

1996 - The World Health Organization reported that, according to her research, more than eight million children under the age of one year die each year.