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- 1939
- Derby Airport officially opens, serving Derby, England.
- 1944
- Iceland leaves its union with Denmark and becomes a republic.
- 1977
- The SeaBus is inaugurated in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1988
- An extension of the Santa Clara County Transit's Guadalupe line south to downtown San Jose, California, opens for service.
- 2006
- The Hsuehshan Tunnel opens as the longest tunnel in Taiwan.
- 2022
- Hops and Berry Taproom opens in Loveland, Ohio.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on June 17, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on June 17 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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