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What Happened on July 17th This Day in History

Year	Name
2018	Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter.
2015	At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
2014	Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
2014	A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
2007	TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
2006	The 7.7 Mw  Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
2001	Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
2000	During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.
1998	The 7.0 Mw  Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
1998	A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
1996	TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1989	First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
1989	Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
1985	Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
1984	The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
1981	A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
1979	Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.
1976	East Timor is annexed and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
1976	The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.
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.
1973	King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan.
1968	Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
1962	Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
1955	Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
1953	The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
1945	World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
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: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
1938	Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
1936	Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
1932	Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
1919	The form of government in the Republic of Finland is officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the Day of Democracy (Kansanvallan päivä) in Finland.
1918	Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
1918	The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
1917	King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
1902	Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
1901	Liner Deutschland sets east to west transatlantic record of five days, eleven hours and five minutes.
1899	NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
1867	Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
1850	Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed.[3]
1821	The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the United States.
1794	The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
1791	Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
1771	Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
1762	Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
1717	King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
1453	Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
1429	Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc.
1402	Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.
1203	The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
1048	Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.
180	Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

Famous People Born on July 17

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Year	Name
1949	Charley Steiner, American journalist and sportscaster
1978	Panda Bear, American musician and songwriter
1924	Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d. 2013)
1942	Gale Garnett, New Zealand–born Canadian singer
1932	Niccolò Castiglioni, Italian composer (d. 1996)
1698	Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759)
1958	Suzanne Moore, English journalist
1955	Paul Stamets, American mycologist and author
1912	Erwin Bauer, German race car driver (d. 1958)
1947	Mick Tucker, English rock drummer (Sweet) (d. 2002)

Famous People Deaths On July 17

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Date	Name
2005	Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
1531	Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese commander (b. 1484)
1944	William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist (b. 1898)
1704	Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (b. 1657)
1571	Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1945	Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
2002	Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
1210	Sverker II, king of Sweden (b. 1210)
2009	Walter Cronkite, American journalist and actor (b. 1916)
1935	George William Russell, Irish poet and painter (b. 1867)