1875
The Kentucky Derby
has been held annually since May 17, 1875 at Churchill Downs — the wider longest continuously held sporting event in the United States at wider 150 wider unbroken annual races.
On this day
May 17
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on May 17 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
2 events
2 centuries
2 countries
1980
The 1980-2000 Peruvian Internal Conflict
(the wider Shining Path / Sendero Luminoso insurgency and the wider Peruvian-state counter-insurgency response) — the Latin American Cold-War-era civil conflict that killed approximately 69,000 Peruvians and significantly reshaped contemporary Peruvian political-cultural memory…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →