1536
May 17, Anne Boleyn's 4 "lovers" were executed.

1978
May 17, Women were included in the White House honor guard for the first time as President Carter welcomed Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda.

1981
May 17, SF celebrated "Tillie Olsen Day." Her books included "Yonnondio" (1974), and "Silences," a study of blocked creativity. In 2001 she received the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award.

1981
May 17, Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (b.1895), American teacher and 1st US woman free balloon pilot, died.

2006
May 17, Under withering criticism, the Dutch immigration minister Rita Verdonk agreed to rethink her threat to revoke the citizenship of a Somali-born former lawmaker known for her opposition to fundamentalist Islam.

2006
May 17, A powerful bomb blew up a gas pipeline in a remote town of southwestern Pakistan, killing a 7-year-old girl.

2007
May 17, In Oakland, Ca., a mother and daughter were kidnapped and tortured by men associated with Your Black Muslim Bakery. Yusuf Bey IV, the group’s leader, believed the women could reveal where a local drug dealer kept his money. In October Richard Lewis (23), aka Rakeem Kahlil Bey, was arrested for his role in the kidnap-torture. On April 7, 2010, Lewis was convicted of kidnapping, carjacking and torture. In 2014 a state appeals court overturned the conviction and life sentence of Lewis, entitling him to a new trial.

2009
May 17, Chile confirmed its first two cases of swine flu in two women who arrived from the Dominican Republic.

2011
May 17, Britain's Queen Elizabeth arrived in Dublin for a historic state visit steeped in symbolism and surrounded by security after a makeshift bomb was found, highlighting the lingering hostility of a small minority.

2011
May 17, Egypt's Justice Ministry ordered the wife of former president Hosni Mubarak released from custody without bail. Suzanne Mubarak was released after handing over her assets to the state, as her husband pledged to do the same in a bid to secure an amnesty.

2012
May 17, Algerian singer Warda al-Jazairia (72), the Algerian Rose, died in Cairo. She was a regional icon whose powerful patriotic tunes were matched in popularity by her romantic ballads. She performed for presidents and popular audiences, reinventing herself over the decades to appeal to old and young alike.

2013
May 17, In New York Andrea Rebello (24), a student at Hofstra Univ. was shot and killed after an armed man broke into the home she shared with her twin sister. Gunfire from a police officer killed intruder Dalton Smith (30) and Rebello.

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