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100 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jul 1925 | Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits | |||
17 Jul 1925 | Jimmy Scott, American singer and actor (d. 2014) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jul 1950 | Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka | |||
17 Jul 1950 | Derek de Lint, Dutch actor | |||
17 Jul 1950 | Damon Harris, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 2013) | |||
17 Jul 1950 | Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sisters of Glory) (d. 2011) | |||
17 Jul 1950 | P. J. Soles, German-American actress | |||
17 Jul 1950 | Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865) | |||
17 Jul 1950 | Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885) | |||
17 Jul 1950 | birth Otis Damon Harris, vocals, The Temptations, (1971 UK No.8 single 'Just My Imagination' and re-issued 'My Girl' UK No.2 in 1992). Harris died on February 18th 2013 at the age of 62 after a 14-year battle with prostate cancer. Harris was a member of The Temptations from 1971 to 1975, joining shortly after the departure of Eddie Kendricks. | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jul 1975 | Troy Amos Ross: Georgetown, Guyana -- Canadian boxer (1996 Olympics) | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Modoc [the Elephant]: Dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal) | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make 1st US / USSR linkup in space | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox divorce | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Darude, Finnish DJ and producer | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Elena Anaya, Spanish actress | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Cécile de France, Belgian actress | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Carey Hart, American motorcycle racer | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Paul Hinojos, American guitarist and songwriter (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, and Sparta) | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Terence Tao, Australian-American mathematician and academic | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893) | |||
17 Jul 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. | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Bob Marley and the Wailers played the first of two nights at The Lyceum, London, and both nights were recorded for the November released 'live' album, featuring the single 'No Woman No Cry.' | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Modoc the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal) | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space | |||
17 Jul 1975 | Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce | |||
17 Jul 1975
Apollo-Soyuz |
Apollo-Soyuz (astronomy and space ) 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. |
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17 Jul 1975
Terence Tao |
birth Terence Tao Terence Tao, Australian-born mathematician. |
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25 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jul 2000 | Maria Aragon, Canadian singer | |||
17 Jul 2000 | Zhao Lirong, Chinese actress (b. 1928) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jul 2005 | Laurel Aitken, Cuban singer (b. 1927) | |||
17 Jul 2005 | Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913) | |||
17 Jul 2005 | Edward Heath, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916) | |||
17 Jul 2005 | Joe Vialls, Australian journalist and theorist (b. 1944) | |||
17 Jul 2005 | Jamaican musician Laurel Aitken died. Dubbed as 'the Godfather of Ska', his 1958 'Boogie In My Bones' became the first release on the Island Record label and was No.1 on the Jamaican charts for 11 weeks. |