May 17

May 17 is the 137th day of the year (138th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. It is preceded by May 16, and succeeded by May 18. Following May 17, there are 228 days in the year.

Blavatsky's Gem of the Day

"The virtuous man cannot be hurt, the misery that his enemy would inflict comes back on himself."

Events

• 1917 – Women's Indian Association founded by Dorothy Graham Jinarājadāsa

Births

• YEAR – NAME, SOMETHING ABOUT PERSON (d. YEAR) - THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE

Deaths

• 1916 – Dr. Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden, German scholar and first president of the Germania Theosophical Society, at Göttingen, Germany. (b. 1846)

Holidays and observances

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External links

• This Date in Wikipedia