May 17: Galician Literature Day in Galicia, Spain
- 1590 – Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen consort of Scotland in the abbey church at Holyrood Palace.
- 1792 – Twenty-four stock brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement to establish the New York Stock Exchange.
- 1865 – The International Telecommunication Union, an international organization that standardizes and regulates international radio and telecommunications, was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris.
- 1902 – The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.
- 1995 – After 18 years as Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac (pictured) was inaugurated as President of France.
More anniversaries: May 16 – May 17 – May 18
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