Once Upon A Time – May 17 – 1861 – First Color Photograph Of Tartan Tibbon Is Shown By Scottish Scientist

1792 24 merchants form the New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street

1803 John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine

1861 First Color Photograph, of a tartan ribbon is shown by Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell to the Royal Institution in London

1973 US Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings into the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.

2014 The center-right Hindu Nationalist Party, the BJP, led by Narendra Modi wins a landslide general election victory in India

Historical Events Today Events in 2023

Today in Film & TV

1939 1st televised baseball game is broadcast on NBC, with Princeton University defeating Columbia University 2-1

Today in Music

2015 “Blurryface,” 4th studio album by Twenty One Pilots is released (1st album ever to have every track gold-certified)

Today in Sport

1875 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75

1961 Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers

Famous Weddings

1763 Philosopher Marquis de Sade (22) weds Renee Pelagie de Montreuil in Paris

1827 Future US President Andrew Johnson (18) weds Eliza McCardle (16) in Warrenton, Tennessee

1923 Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (21) weds assistant director Rudolf Sieber (26) in Berlin, Germany

President Theodore Roosevelt began a camping trip on this day with naturalist, writer and conservationist John Muir. The trip had a profound effect on Roosevelt – May 17, 1903