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17th July )
July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years ) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar , with 167 days remaining.
Events
100-1899 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 .
1900-1999 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 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, Illinois 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 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
1600-1899
1900-1999 1901 - Bruno Jasieński , Polish poet (d. 1938 )1912 - Art Linkletter , television host1917 - Phyllis Diller , comedienne1917 - Margarete Mitscherlich , physician 1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch , chairman of the International Olympic Committee 1920 - Kenneth Wolstenholme , sports commentator (d. 2002 ) 1928 - Vince Guaraldi , musician, composer (d. 1976 )1935 - Diahann Carroll , singer1935 - Donald Sutherland , actor 1938 - Franz Alt , journalist1939 - Maria Ilva Biolcati , known as Milva, singer1941 - Spencer Davis 1941 - Jürgen Flimm , theatre director and manager 1942 - Tim Brooke-Taylor , comedian1947 - Camilla Parker Bowles , British royal mistress1948 - Luc Bondy , film and theatre director1949 - Charlie Steiner , sports anchor1952 - David Hasselhoff , actor, musician1954 - J. Michael Straczynski , science fiction author1956 - Peter D'Adamo , physician, author1963 - Matti Nykänen , Finnish ski jumper1971 - Cory Doctorow , author, activist1973 - Eric Moulds , American football player1975 - Konnie Huq , television presenter
Deaths
1700-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
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