July 17
July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 167 days remaining.
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Events
- 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa, executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
- 1762 – Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
- 1771 – Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
- 1791 – Massacre at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution. 1200–1500 people were killed, including women and children.
- 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces.
- 1867 – In Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.
- 1897 – Klondike gold rush begins when first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle, Washington, USA.
- 1898 – Spanish-American War: Battle of Santiago Bay – Troops under United States General William R. Shafter take the city of Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish.
- 1917 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
- 1936 – Spanish Civil War: A conservative rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war.
- 1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California killing 232.
- 1944 – World War II: The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax, Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection.
- 1945 – World War II: Potsdam Conference – At Potsdam, the three main Allied leaders begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2.
- 1955 – Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
- 1962 – Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
- 1975 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
- 1979 – Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami.
- 1981 – Hyatt Hotel disaster: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby killing 114.
- 1984 – Laurent Fabius becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1995 – The Midwestern heat wave in the United States reaches its peak. Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, among other cities, set all-time high temperature records. The heat claims over 400 lives on this day alone.
- 1995 – The Nasdaq stock index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
- 1996 – Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes killing all 230 on board.
- 1997 – The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
- 1998 – In St. Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks.
- 1998 – A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 1,500, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
- 1998 – Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.
Births
- 1674 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
- 1698 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
- 1787 – Friedrich Krupp, industrialist (d. 1826), see Krupp
- 1877 – Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian conductor (d. 1960)
- 1888 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer (d. 1970)
- 1899 – James Cagney, actor (d. 1986)
- 1899 – Erle Stanley Gardner, author (d. 1970)
- 1901 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
- 1912 – Art Linkletter, television host
- 1917 – Phyllis Diller, comedienne
- 1917 – Margarete Mitscherlich, physician
- 1920 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, former chairman of the International Olympic Committee
- 1920 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, sports commentator (d. 2002)
- 1928 – Vince Guaraldi, musician, composer (d. 1976)
- 1935 – Diahann Carroll, singer
- 1935 – Donald Sutherland, actor
- 1938 – Franz Alt, journalist
- 1939 – Maria Ilva Biolcati, known as Milva, singer
- 1941 – Spencer Davis
- 1941 – Jürgen Flimm, theatre director and manager
- 1942 – Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedian
- 1947 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Parker Bowles), former British royal mistress and now wife of Prince Charles
- 1948 – Luc Bondy, film and theatre director
- 1949 – Charlie Steiner, sports anchor
- 1952 – David Hasselhoff, actor, musician
- 1954 – J. Michael Straczynski, science fiction author
- 1956 – Peter D'Adamo, physician, author
- 1960 – Mark Burnett, reality TV producer
- 1963 – Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1971 – Cory Doctorow, author, activist
- 1973 – Eric Moulds, American football player
- 1975 – Konnie Huq, television presenter
Deaths
- 1070 – Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
- 1790 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist
- 1793 – Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat
- 1887 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
- 1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (Gregorian calendar date)
- 1918 – Grand Duchess Olga of Russia
- 1918 – Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia
- 1918 – Tsarevich Alexei of Russia
- 1918 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
- 1918 – Tsarina Alexandra of Russia
- 1918 – Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
- 1959 – Billie Holiday, singer
- 1959 – Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (The Washington Post) (b. 1875)
- 1961 – Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1886)
- 1967 – John Coltrane, jazz musician
- 1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor
- 1980 – Boris Delaunay, Soviet/Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
- 1995 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
- 2001 – Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Hans Abich, German tv producer
- 2003 – Antje, walrus, long-time mascot of German tv station NDR
- 2003 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist
- 2003 – Dr. David Kelly, UN weapons inspector
- 2004 – Pat Roach, wrestler and actor
Holidays and observances
- Iraq – Ba'ath Revolution Day
- Puerto Rico – Luis Muñoz Rivera's Birthday
- South Korea – Constitution Day
- Various mathematics departments – Yellow Pig's Day
External links
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