
July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 167 days remaining. ==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 of Russia 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 I of France surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to United Kingdom forces. *1867 - In Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the Harvard 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 Spain . *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 House of Windsor. *1936 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces 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 Allies 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 program and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft 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, Florida. *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 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 Saint 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 (journal)'' 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 Jasienski, 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 - Jurgen 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 Charles, Prince of Wales *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 *1878 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812) *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 - Alexandra of Hesse * 1918 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia *1959 - Billie Holiday, singer * 1959 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (''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 Union/Russian mathematician (b. 1890) *1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentina auto racing (b. 1911) *2001 - Katharine Graham, ''Washington Post'' publisher (b. 1917) *2003 - Hans Abich, Germany tv producer *2003 - Antje (NDR mascot), walrus, long-time mascot of Germany tv station NDR *2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist *2003 - Dr. David Kelly, UN weapons inspector *2004 - Pat Roach, professional wrestling 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 *Kyoto, Japan - Gion Matsuri == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/17 BBC: On This Day] ---- July 16 - July 18 - June 16 - August 18 -- historical anniversaries
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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. ==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 of Russia 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 I of France surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to United Kingdom forces. *1867 - In Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the Harvard 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 Spain . *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 House of Windsor. *1936 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces 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 Allies 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 program and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft 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, Florida. *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 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 Saint 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 (journal)'' 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 Jasienski, 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 - Jurgen 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 Charles, Prince of Wales *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 *1878 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812) *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 - Alexandra of Hesse * 1918 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia *1959 - Billie Holiday, singer * 1959 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (''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 Union/Russian mathematician (b. 1890) *1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentina auto racing (b. 1911) *2001 - Katharine Graham, ''Washington Post'' publisher (b. 1917) *2003 - Hans Abich, Germany tv producer *2003 - Antje (NDR mascot), walrus, long-time mascot of Germany tv station NDR *2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist *2003 - Dr. David Kelly, UN weapons inspector *2004 - Pat Roach, professional wrestling 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 *Kyoto, Japan - Gion Matsuri == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/17 BBC: On This Day] ---- July 16 - July 18 - June 16 - August 18 -- historical anniversaries
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