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July 17 is the 198th day (199th in
leap years ) of the year in the
Gregorian calendar , with 167 days remaining.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
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.
1048 - Damasus II appointed Pope .
1203 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
1453 - Hundred Years' War : Battheyle of Castillon - The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury , who is killed in the battle in Gascony
1762 - Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the accidental 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.
1816 - The French passenger ship Medusa Senegal .
1821 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States
1841 - The first issue of the magazine Punch London
1856 - The Great Train Wreck of 1856 , the worst train wreck in history, occurs in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania killing over 60 people.
1858 - Salving of the Lutine bell . The bell is subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London .
1897 - Klondike gold rush begins when first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle, Washington .
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 .
1899 - NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
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 .
1918 - By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by Cheka , Emperor Nicholas II of Russia , his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia .
1933 - After successfully crossing the Atlantic ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
1936 - Spanish Civil War : An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war .
1941 - Joe DiMaggio 's baseball hitting streak ends at 56 games, by Cleveland Indian pitchers, Al Smith & Jim Bagby.
1944 - Port Chicago disaster : Near the San Francisco Bay , two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California , killing 320.
1944 - World War II : The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax , Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection.
1944 - Napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô , France
1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference - At Potsdam , President Harry S. Truman , Soviet leader Joseph Stalin , and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2 .
1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening 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 .
1964 - British speed pioneer Sir Donald Campbell sets a new land speed world record of 429mph in his car, Bluebird .
1968 - The date of the July 17th Revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown and the Ba'ath Party installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
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.
1976 - History of East Timor : East Timor was annexed , and became the 27th province of Indonesia .
1976 - The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team
1976 - Viking 1 successfully lands on Mars .
1979 - Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami .
1981 - Hyatt Regency walkway collapse : Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby during a "tea dance ," killing 114.
1987 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time at 2510.04.
1989 - First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
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 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
1998 - Biologists report in the journal Science genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis , Treponema pallidum .
Births 1487 - Ismail I , Shah of Persia (d. 1524 )
1674 - Isaac Watts , English hymnwriter (d. 1748 )
1698 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis , French mathematician (d. 1759 )
1744 - Elbridge Gerry , 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814 )
1745 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen , Russian general (d. 1826 )
1797 - Hippolyte Delaroche , French painter (d. 1856 )
1831 - Xianfeng , Emperor of China (d. 1861 )
1839 - Ephraim Shay , American inventor (d. 1916 )
1888 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970 )
1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner , American lawyer and author (Perry Mason ) (d. 1970 )
1893 - Marvin Pierce , Women's magazine publisher (d. 1969 )
1899 - James Cagney , American actor (d. 1986 )
1901 - Bruno Jasieński , Polish poet (d. 1938 )
1902 - Christina Stead , Australian novelist (d. 1983 )
1911 - Ted Anderson , English footballer (d. 1979 )
1913 - Bertrand Goldberg , American architect (d. 1997 )
1912 - Art Linkletter , Canadian television host
1917 - Phyllis Diller , American comedian
1917 - Red Sovine , American country music singer (d. 1980 )
1917 - Lou Boudreau , Major League baseball player and manager (d. 2001 )
1918 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio , President of Guatemala (d. 2003 )
1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch , Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee
1920 - Kenneth Wolstenholme , English sports commentator (d. 2002 )
1920 - Gordon Gould , inventor of the laser (d. 2005 )
1921 - František Zvarík , Slovakian actor
1928 - Vince Guaraldi , American musician and composer (d. 1976 )
1929 - Sergei K. Godunov , Russian mathematician
1935 - Diahann Carroll , American actor
1935 - Peter Schickele , American composer, author, and radio host
1935 - Donald Sutherland , Canadian actor
1939 - Ali Khamenei , Supreme Leader of Iran
1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor , English comedian
1941 - Spencer Davis , British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group )
1941 - Jürgen Flimm , German theatre director and manager
1941 - Daryle Lamonica , American football player
1942 - Don Kessinger , baseball player
1944 - Carlos Alberto , Brazilian football player
1944 - Catherine Schell , Hungarian born British actress
1945 - Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
1947 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
1948 - Ron Asheton , American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges )
1948 - Luc Bondy , Swiss theatre and opera director
1949 - Terence "Geezer" Butler , British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath )
1949 - John Wetton , British musician (King Crimson )
1949 - Snyder Rini , Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands for eight days
1949 - Charlie Steiner , American sports broadcaster
1951 - Lucie Arnaz , American actress
1952 - David Hasselhoff , American actor and musician
1952 - Phoebe Snow , singer and songwriter
1952 - Nicolette Larson , American singer (d. 1997 )
1954 - Angela Merkel , Chancellor of Germany
1954 - J. Michael Straczynski , American author
1955 - Paul Stamets , American mycologist and environmentalist
1956 - Bryan Trottier , Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Fern Britton , British television presenter
1958 - Wong Kar-wai , Chinese film director
1960 - Mark Burnett , English-born television producer
1960 - Robin Shou , Hong Kong actor
1960 - Jan Wouters , Dutch football player and manager
1963 - Matti Nykänen , Finnish ski jumper
1963 - Letsie III , King of Lesotho
1965 - Craig Morgan , American singer
1968 - Bitty Schram , American actress
1971 - Jarrett Cordes , American hip-hip artist (P.M. Dawn )
1971 - Cory Doctorow , Canadian author and activist
1972 - Jaap Stam , Dutch footballer
1973 - Eric Moulds , American football player
1973 - Tony Dovolani , Albanian ballroom dancer
1975 - Konnie Huq , English television presenter
1975 - Cécile de France , Belgian actress
1975 - Terence Tao , Australian Chinese mathematician
1977 - M.I.A. , British rapper
1977 - Marc Savard , Canadian hockey player
1978 - Mike Hettinga , American professional wrestler
1980 - Ryan Miller , NHL hockey player
1980 - Javier Camuñas , Spanish footballer
1981 - Elpida Romantzi , Greek archer
1982 - Natasha Hamilton , British singer (Atomic Kitten )
1983 - Ryan Guettler , professional Australian BMX rider
1984 - Sotiris Leontiou , Greek footballer
1985 - Neil McGregor , Scottish Footballer
1985 - Tom Fletcher , British singer (McFly )
1989 - Marko Todorović , Swiss swimmer
1991 - Kirk Muller , Marshallese man
1998 - Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón , Spanish royal
Deaths 521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius , bishop and Latin poet (b. 474 )
924 - King Edward the Elder of England
1070 - Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030 )
1086 - King Canute IV of Denmark
1105 - Rashi , French rabbi and commentator (b. 1040 )
1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , English military leader
1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni , Japanese military commander (b. 1484 )
1566 - Bartolomé de Las Casas , Spanish priest (b. 1484 )
1571 - Georg Fabricius , German poet and historian (b. 1516 )
1588 - Sinan , Ottoman architect (b. 1489 )
1645 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset , Scottish politician
1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur , French fur trader and explorer
1709 - Robert Bolling , English settler in Virginia (b. 1646 )
1790 - Adam Smith , Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723 )
1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer , Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717 )
1793 - Charlotte Corday , French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768 )
1794 - John Roebuck , British inventor (b. 1718 )
1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764 )
1878 - Aleardo Aleardi , Italian poet (b. 1812 )
1881 - Jim Bridger , American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804 )
1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais , Canadian politician (b. 1811 )
1887 - Dorothea Dix , American social activist (b. 1802 )
1894 - Josef Hyrtl , Austrian anatomist (b. 1810 )
1894 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle , French poet (b. 1818 )
1912 - Henri Poincaré , French mathematician (b. 1854 )
1917 - Hector Malot , French writer (b. 1830 )
1918 (N.S.) - Family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868 )
1928 - Giovanni Giolitti , Italian statesman (b. 1842 )
1935 - George William Russell , Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867 )
1944 - William James Sidis , gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898 )
1945 - Ernst Busch , German field marshal (b. 1885 )
1946 - General Dragoljub Mihailović , commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (b. 1893 )
1950 - Evangeline Booth , the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865 )
1959 - Billie Holiday , American singer (b. 1915 )
1959 - Eugene Meyer , American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875 )
1961 - Ty Cobb , baseball player (b. 1886 )
1967 - John Coltrane , American musician (b. 1926 )
1974 - Dizzy Dean , Major League baseball pitcher (b. 1910 )
1975 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia , Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893 )
1980 - Boris Delaunay , Russian mathematician (b. 1890 )
1987 - Yujiro Ishihara , Japanese actor (b. 1934 )
1988 - Bruiser Brody , professional wrestler (b. 1946 )
1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911 )
1996 - Chas Chandler , bass guitarist (The Animals ), record producer and manager (b. 1938 )
2001 - Katharine Graham , American publisher (b. 1917 )
2003 - David Kelly , Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944 )
2003 - Rosalyn Tureck , American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914 )
2004 - Pat Roach , British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937 )
2005 - Laurel Aitken , Jamaican singer (b. 1927 )
2005 - Edward Heath , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916 )
2005 - Joe Vialls , Australian writer (b. 1944 )
2006 - Sam Myers , American musician and songwriter (b. 1936 )
2006 - Mickey Spillane , American author (b. 1918 )
Holidays and observances Liturgical feasts Saint Alexius , confessor [common; in red]
Saint Andrew and Benedict , martyrs [ Hungary]
Holy Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne , martyrs
Saint Cynllo
Saint Ennodius , bishop of Pavia
Saint Fredegaudus , bishop, confessor [Liège]
Saint Kenelmus , king, martyr [England]
Saint Marcellina , virgin
Translation of Saint Marina virgin, martyr [Venice]
Saints Quiricus and Julitta , martyrs [Augsburg]
Saint Piatus , bishop of Tournai [Paris]
Saint Speratus and companions 'the Sicilian Martyrs' [Paderborn, Verdun, France]
Saint Theodosius , bishop of Auxerre [Auxerre]
Saint Turninus , monk
Blessed Charlotte and companions (died 1794).
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