A little reason to celebrate
National Walnut Day
Food · May 17
A day for the walnut, the wrinkled tree nut that turns up in brownies, salads, breads and plain handfuls from the shell.
National days on May 17, 2027
Also on May 17
On this day
- 1527: Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men – by 1536 only four survive. Pánfilo de Narváez
- 1875: Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75). Aristides (horse)
- 1977: Nolan Bushnell opens the first Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (later renamed Chuck E. Cheese) in San Jose, California. Nolan Bushnell
- 1983: Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. Lebanon
- 2006: The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef. USS Oriskany
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