June 17

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1631	Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.	Yeasayer	I Remember	Odd Blood
2	1673	French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.	The Grass Roots	The Rivers is Wide	The Best of the Grass Roots
3	1885	The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.	Aloha	Liberty	That's Your Fire
4	1933	Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.	Iron & Wine	Free Until They Cut Me Down	Our Endless Numbered Days
5	1958	The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada opens. It is still open today.	Belle & Sebastian	The Rollercoaster Ride	The Boy with the Arab Strap
6	1971	President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.	The War on Drugs	Comin' Through	Future Weather
7	1994	Following a televised low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.	The Get Up Kids	I'll Catch You	Something to Write Home About

(Historical facts about June 17 are from Wikipedia.)