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Canada officially repatriated this important document from Great Britain on April 17, 1982.

Constitution. I actually watched this on television when I turned 13. Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Trudeau signed the document authorizing the transfer.

Ford unveiled this at the New York World Fair on April 17, 1964. What was it?

Mustang. It became one of the most popular cars in North America.

This country surrendered to Nazi Germany on April 17, 1941.

Yugoslavia. Despite the Tripartite Pact signed months earlier, Nazi Germany invaded anyway. The Nazi régime had in the meantine agreed to help Mussolini's Italy, whose attempted invasion of Greece had failed. The easiest overland route from Central Europe to Greece (and Albania) led straight through Yugoslavia.

Which Apollo craft miraculously returned home on April 17, 1970, after a major malfunction on its way to the moon?

13. An oxygen tank exploded and they had to abort their planned moon landing.

On April 17, 1524 this man became the first European to discover what is now New York Harbour. Who was it?

Giovanni de Verrazano. No, not Hudson. Verrazano bumped into eastern North America while looking for India.

Two United States Air Force F-16 pilots did this in Afghanistan on April 17, 2002. What was it?

Killed four Canadian soldiers in a friendly fire accident. And they didn't seem very remorseful about it, either, as they were "just following orders."

This person was arrested on April 17, 1865, as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

Mary Surratt. She also became the first woman to be officially executed in the United States (since colonial times) when she was hanged on July 7, 1865.

At the Diet of Worms, this man refused to recant his teachings on April 17, 1521.

Martin Luther. He then left Worms and was promptly kidnapped for his own safety by his protector, the Duke of Saxony, who disguised him as a knight and kept him in the Wartburg, a castle in modern Thuringia. Emperor Charles V declared him an outlaw and a heretic and banned all his writings a month later.

This infamous assassin of a U.S. presidential candidate in 1968 was convicted of murder on April 17, 1969. Who was it?

Sirhan Sirhan. He killed Robert F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald had killed Robert's brother, President John F Kennedy five years earlier.

She became the first woman to complete her solo circumnavigation the earth by air on April 17, 1964. Who was it?

Jerrie Mock. It took her 291 days, 21 stopovers, and she covered about 50,300 km. Born in Ohio in 1925, she called her relatively light aircraft (with a wing-span of just under 11m) the "Spirit of Colombus". For more detail see: http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/mock.html

This invasion failed miserably on April 17, 1961. Which was it?

Bay of Pigs Invasion. The U.S. attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro using Cuban ex-patriots.

Geoffrey Chaucer told this story for the first time at the court of Richard II on April 17, 1397.

The Canterbury Tales. It is a collection of fictional stories told by pilgrims travelling to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

On the 17th of April, 1895 the Treaty of Maguan was signed between China and ___________________.

Japan. The Japanese call it Shimonoseki. It ended the First Sino-Japanese War with Japan victorious. China agreed to recognize the independence of Korea.

This famous "Looney Tunes" character was first introduced in "Porky's Duck Hunt" on April 17, 1937.

Daffy Duck. I always felt bad for Daffy.

The state seceded from the United States on April 17, 1861.

Virginia. Some counties seperated from Virginia and became Kanawha, which later became West Virginia. Virginia officially rejoined the U.S. on January 26, 1870, after a period of post war military rule.