What Happened on April 17, 2015

Historical Events

American jazz composer and saxophonist John Coltrane is awarded a posthumous Special Citation by the Pulitzer Prize board

James Anderson becomes the highest wicket-taking bowler in England's test cricket history
Marianne Winkler finds "message in a bottle" on the shore of the German island of Amrum; it had been dropped in the North Sea by British marine scientist George Parker Bidder on November 30th, 1906, making its length of time spent adrift 108 years, 138 days