Students explore twelve interesting events in WORLD HISTORY that occurred on this day, May 17. First, students find these words in a word search. Second, students insert the missing words into cloze sentences at the bottom of the page. Third, students search online for more information about what happened on this day in in history - the births of famous people, famous battles, inventions and scientific breakthroughs, sporting events, celebrations, births or deaths of famous people, etc. Fourth,