1. In 1933, the Union Pacific Railroad inaugurated its famous streamlined passenger train, the City of San Francisco, running from Chicago to Oakland, California, with Kansas City as one of its stops on June 17.

2. On June 17, 1950, Wichita's Municipal Airport (now known as Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport) opened a new terminal building, replacing the original facility.

3. In 1862, Confederate forces under General Sterling Price clashed with Union troops near the Missouri-Kansas border in the Battle of Lexington, which ended in a Confederate victory on June 17.

4. On June 17, 1938, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld Kansas' civil service law, which had been challenged by a group of state employees who claimed that the law violated their constitutional rights.

5. In 1931, Amelia Earhart made history by flying nonstop from Newfoundland to Ireland, becoming the first woman to complete the solo flight across the Atlantic. Earhart was born and raised in Kansas and attended college at what is now known as Wichita State University.