100 years anniversary |
17 Jul 1924
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birth
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Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d. 2013) |
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17 Jul 1924
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event
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St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
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75 years anniversary |
17 Jul 1949
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birth
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Geezer Butler: Birmingham -- Rocker (Black Sabbath)
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17 Jul 1949
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birth
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Mick Tucker: London, England -- Rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden)
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17 Jul 1949
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birth
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Mike Vale: Rock bassist (Tommy James & The Shondells)
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17 Jul 1949
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birth
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Wayne Sleep, English actor, dancer, and choreographer |
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17 Jul 1949
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music
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birth Geezer Butler, bass, Black Sabbath, (1970 UK No.4 single 'Paranoid', the bands self-titled 1970 album was voted as the best British rock albums ever by Kerrang! in 2005).
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17 Jul 1949
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music
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birth Mick Tucker, drums, Sweet, (1973 UK No.1 single 'Blockbuster', plus 14 other UK top 40 singles). Tucker died of leukaemia on 14th February 2002.
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17 Jul 1949
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music
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birth Mike Vale, bass, Tommy James and the Shondells, (1966 US No.1 single 'Hanky Panky', 1968 UK No.1 single 'Mony Mony').
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17 Jul 1949
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birth
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Terry "Geezer" Butler bassist (Black Sabbath)
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50 years anniversary |
17 Jul 1974
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death
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Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean: Pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 63
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17 Jul 1974
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event
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1st quadrophonic studio in the UK is open by Moody Blues
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17 Jul 1974
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event
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Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
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17 Jul 1974
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event
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John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days
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17 Jul 1974
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death
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Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910) |
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17 Jul 1974
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music
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The Moody Blues opened what they claimed was the first 'Quadraphonic' recording studio in the world.
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17 Jul 1974
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event
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1st quadrophinic studio in UK is open by the Moody Blues
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17 Jul 1974
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event
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Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000
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17 Jul 1974
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event
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John Lennon is ordered to leave the US in 60 days
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25 years anniversary |
17 Jul 1999
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music
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Kevin Wilkinson, drummer with Howard Jones hung himself at home aged 41. Also worked with China Crisis, Holly and the Italians, Squeeze and The Waterboys.
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20 years anniversary |
17 Jul 2004
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music
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Half of the 4,500 people in the audience walked out of Linda Ronstadt's show at the Aladdin Resort and Casino in Las Vegas after the singer dedicated an encore of Desperado to filmmaker Michael Moore and urged the crowd to see his film Fahrenheit 9/11.
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15 years anniversary |
17 Jul 2009
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death
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Walter Cronkite, American journalist and actor (b. 1916) |
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17 Jul 2009
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death
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Leszek Kołakowski, Polish historian and philosopher (b. 1927) |
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10 years anniversary |
17 Jul 2014
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death
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Victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (Liam Davison, Australian author (b. 1957), Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (b. 1976), Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (b. 1954), Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician (b. 1952)) |
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17 Jul 2014
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death
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Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1933) |
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17 Jul 2014
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death
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Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (b. 1928) |
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17 Jul 2014
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death
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J. Sasikumar, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928) |
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17 Jul 2014
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death
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Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (b. 1925) |
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17 Jul 2014
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event
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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. |
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