TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011

Today is Tuesday, May 17, the 137th day of 2011. There are 228 days left in the year.

1536 ― Anne Boleyn's four ``lovers" executed

1756 ― Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)

1846 ― Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax

1884 ― Alaska becomes a U.S. territory

1916 ― British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), first introduced

1939 ― First sports telecast-Columbia vs. Princeton-college baseball

1948 ― Soviet Union recognized Israel

1960 ― First atomic reactor system to be patented, J.W. Flora, Canoga Park, Calif.

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

1973 ― Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings