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• Today is Tuesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2014. There are 197 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 17, 1789, during the French Revolution, the Third Estate declared itself a national assembly, and undertook to frame a constitution. (This gathering gave rise to the political terms "left wing" and "right wing," with deputies representing commoners sitting to the left of the assembly president, and nobles sitting to the right.)
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• On this date:
• In 1397, the Treaty of Kalmar was signed, creating a union between the kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
• In 1775, the Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory for the British, who suffered heavy losses.
• In 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French ship Isere (ee-SEHR').
• In 1928, Amelia Earhart embarked on a trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales with pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, becoming the first woman to make the trip as a passenger.
• In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which boosted U.S. tariffs to historically high levels, prompting foreign retaliation.
• In 1944, the Republic of Iceland was established.
• In 1953, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stayed the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, originally set for the next day, the couple's 14th wedding anniversary. (They were put to death June 19.)
• In 1961, Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris.
• In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon's eventual downfall began with the arrest of

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