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Events on the 17th of July in history

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17 Jul 0180 Christenen Cittinus / Donatus / Natzalus / Secunda / Speratus / Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago
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17 Jul 0180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
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17 Jul 0561 John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
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17 Jul 0561 John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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17 Jul 0855 St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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17 Jul 1054 Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV King
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17 Jul 1070 Arnulf III the Hapless becomes Earl of Flanders
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17 Jul 1203 Venetianen conquer Constantinople, Emperor Alexius III flees
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17 Jul 1203 The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
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17 Jul 1245 Pope bans Emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
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17 Jul 1393 Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
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17 Jul 1402 Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China.
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17 Jul 1429 Dauphin crowned King of France
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17 Jul 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
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17 Jul 1453 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops
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17 Jul 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.
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17 Jul 1473 Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen
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17 Jul 1509 Venice recaptures Padua
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17 Jul 1549 Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
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17 Jul 1552 Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
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17 Jul 1583 Spanish and Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
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17 Jul 1585 English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against Queen Elizabeth I
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17 Jul 1596 At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
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17 Jul 1603 Sir Walter Ralegh arrested
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17 Jul 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.
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17 Jul 1727 Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
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17 Jul 1740 Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
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17 Jul 1762 Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
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17 Jul 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.
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17 Jul 1774 Captain Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)
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17 Jul 1775 1st military hospital approved
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17 Jul 1788 Russian fleet destroys Swedish
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17 Jul 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 as many as 50 people.
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17 Jul 1794 The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
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17 Jul 1794 African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
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17 Jul 1794 Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
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17 Jul 1821 Spain cedes Florida to US
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17 Jul 1841 British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published
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17 Jul 1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
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17 Jul 1856 Sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Philadelphia)
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17 Jul 1856 The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
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17 Jul 1861 Manassas, VA General Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, General Johnston is ordered to Manassas
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17 Jul 1861 Congress authorizes paper money
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17 Jul 1862 Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition
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17 Jul 1862 R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, KY CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, Tennessee
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17 Jul 1862 United army officially divides corps
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17 Jul 1862 US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
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17 Jul 1863 Battle of Honey Springs, largest battle of war in Indian Territory
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17 Jul 1864 CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
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17 Jul 1866 Italian fleet under Admiral Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa
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17 Jul 1867 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
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17 Jul 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.
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17 Jul 1867 1st permanent university dental school in US, Harvard
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17 Jul 1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
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17 Jul 1890 Cecil Rhodes becomes Premier of Cape colony
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17 Jul 1896 Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, the Indian sage, at age 16, spontaneously initiates a process of self-enquiry that culminates within a few minutes in his own permanent awakening.
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17 Jul 1897 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from the Yukon
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17 Jul 1898 Spanish American War - Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
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17 Jul 1899 NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
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17 Jul 1900 New York Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Brooklyn Superbas
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17 Jul 1902 Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the American League
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17 Jul 1902 Baltimore (AL) didn't have enough men to field their team
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17 Jul 1911 Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
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17 Jul 1912 IAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
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17 Jul 1914 Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
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17 Jul 1914 NY Giants beat Pitts Pirates, 3-1, in 21 innings
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17 Jul 1915 Italian offensive at Isonzo
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17 Jul 1917 King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
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17 Jul 1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor
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17 Jul 1918 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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17 Jul 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.
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17 Jul 1918 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
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17 Jul 1919 Finland adopts constitution
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17 Jul 1919 Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
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17 Jul 1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
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17 Jul 1922 Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year
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17 Jul 1923 Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
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17 Jul 1924 St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
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17 Jul 1925 Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
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17 Jul 1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
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17 Jul 1929 USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
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17 Jul 1932 Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
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17 Jul 1933 After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
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17 Jul 1934 Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
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17 Jul 1935 Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
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17 Jul 1936 Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0
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17 Jul 1936 Military uprising under General Franco / begins Spanish civil war
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17 Jul 1936 Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
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17 Jul 1938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves New York for LA, wound up in Ireland
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17 Jul 1938 Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
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17 Jul 1939 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok Country Club - Flushing, New York
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17 Jul 1941 Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends
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17 Jul 1942 Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record)
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17 Jul 1942 Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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17 Jul 1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
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17 Jul 1944 Russian troops cross river Bug / march into Poland
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17 Jul 1944 Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
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17 Jul 1944 World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France.
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17 Jul 1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
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17 Jul 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.
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17 Jul 1945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
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17 Jul 1946 Resistance leader Mikhailovich executed by Tito regime
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17 Jul 1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth
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17 Jul 1948 The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
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17 Jul 1948 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1685 Toro
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17 Jul 1948 Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of (South) Korea
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17 Jul 1950 Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
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17 Jul 1951 King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
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17 Jul 1952 Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh Premier
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17 Jul 1953 The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida killing 44.
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17 Jul 1954 Theodor Heuss re-elected President of West Germany
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17 Jul 1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
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17 Jul 1954 Construction begins on Disneyland. . .
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17 Jul 1955 Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
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17 Jul 1955 . . . Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County
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17 Jul 1955 Arco, Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
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17 Jul 1958 King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan / Iraqi federation
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17 Jul 1959 River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
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17 Jul 1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
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17 Jul 1959 Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)
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17 Jul 1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
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17 Jul 1961 Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 games
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17 Jul 1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of the Today Show
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17 Jul 1961 Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th
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17 Jul 1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
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17 Jul 1962 Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
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17 Jul 1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
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17 Jul 1962 Senate rejects medicare for the aged
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17 Jul 1963 Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
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17 Jul 1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
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17 Jul 1965 WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (ABC) begins
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17 Jul 1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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17 Jul 1966 Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
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17 Jul 1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
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17 Jul 1966 Pioneer 7 launched
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17 Jul 1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
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17 Jul 1967 Race riots in Cairo Illinois
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17 Jul 1968 A revolution occurs in Iraq when 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.
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17 Jul 1968 Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premiers in London
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17 Jul 1968 Revolt in Iraq
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17 Jul 1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
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17 Jul 1971 Kathy Whitworth / Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship
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17 Jul 1972 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
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17 Jul 1973 Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees
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17 Jul 1973 King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
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17 Jul 1974 Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
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17 Jul 1974 1st quadrophinic studio in UK is open by the Moody Blues
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17 Jul 1974 John Lennon is ordered to leave the US in 60 days
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17 Jul 1975 Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make 1st US / USSR linkup in space
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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.
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17 Jul 1975 Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce
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17 Jul 1976 Indonesian President Suharto annexes East Timor
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17 Jul 1976 East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
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17 Jul 1976 The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
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17 Jul 1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montr
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17 Jul 1976 ABA merges into the NBA
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17 Jul 1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
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17 Jul 1978 New York Yank manager Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson fight in dug out
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17 Jul 1978 Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
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17 Jul 1979 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
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17 Jul 1979 All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates)
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17 Jul 1979 Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami
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17 Jul 1979 Simone Veil becomes Chairman of European Parliament
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17 Jul 1979 Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
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17 Jul 1979 NL beats AL 7-6 in 50th All Star Game (Kingdome Seattle)
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17 Jul 1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
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17 Jul 1980 Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes President
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17 Jul 1980 Zenko Suzuki becomes Premier of Japan
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17 Jul 1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
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17 Jul 1981 "This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 performances
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17 Jul 1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
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17 Jul 1981 Israeli bombers destroy PLO / al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
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17 Jul 1981 The opening of the Humber Bridge by Queen Elizabeth II in England, United Kingdom.
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17 Jul 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.
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17 Jul 1981 Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens
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17 Jul 1981 Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured
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17 Jul 1983 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
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17 Jul 1983 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22)
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17 Jul 1984 Pierre Mauroy resigns as Premier of France
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17 Jul 1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
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17 Jul 1985 Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
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17 Jul 1986 Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time
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17 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
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17 Jul 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
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17 Jul 1987 Iran and France breaks diplomatic relations
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17 Jul 1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
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17 Jul 1988 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham
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17 Jul 1988 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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17 Jul 1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 100m woman's record (10.49)
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17 Jul 1988 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103
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17 Jul 1989 1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber
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17 Jul 1989 Paul McCartney releases "This One"
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17 Jul 1989 Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
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17 Jul 1989 First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
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17 Jul 1989 Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
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17 Jul 1989 Paul McCartney releases "This One"
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17 Jul 1990 Minn Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
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17 Jul 1990 PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
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17 Jul 1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
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17 Jul 1990 NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside the park homer
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17 Jul 1992 Slovak parliament asks for self rule
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17 Jul 1993 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km
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17 Jul 1994 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
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17 Jul 1994 Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
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17 Jul 1994 Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup
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17 Jul 1994 French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche
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17 Jul 1994 Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
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17 Jul 1995 Forbes Magazine announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
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17 Jul 1996 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of New York City
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17 Jul 1996 Yank John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves
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17 Jul 1996 TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
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17 Jul 1996 The Community of Portuguese Language Countries is founded.
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17 Jul 1997 STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
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17 Jul 1998 Russia buries tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died
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17 Jul 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
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17 Jul 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.
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17 Jul 2001 Concorde is brought back in to service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
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17 Jul 2007 TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the Congonhas-São Paulo Airport runway, killing 199 people.
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17 Jul 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.
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