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April 17: Evacuation Day in Syria (1946)

Modern reconstruction of Kaunas Castle

1362 – Lithuanian Crusade: After a month-long siege, forces of the Teutonic Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle (reconstruction pictured), which was defended by troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1783 – The Mechanical Turk, a fraudulent chess-playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controlled by a hidden human, began a tour of Europe.
1809 – Napoleonic Wars: After a three-day chase, the French ship D'Hautpoul was captured off Puerto Rico by a British squadron under Alexander Cochrane.
1973 – George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars.
1984 – Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London, resulting in an 11-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of Libya–United Kingdom relations.

Eliza Acton (b. 1799)
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (b. 1916)
Ralph Abernathy (d. 1990)

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