Historical Events on July 17

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• 180 6 inhabitants of Carthage, North Africa executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in this part of the world.
• 561 John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
• 855 St Leo IV dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope; he will be succeeded by Benedict III

• 1070 Arnulf III the Hapless becomes Earl of Flanders
• 1203 Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade; Roman Catholic Crusaders aboard a Venetian fleet attack the city
• 1245 Pope bans Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
• 1296 Illuminated Hebrew Bible, the "Rothschild Pentateuch", signed and completed by scribes Elijah ben Meshullam and Elijah ben Jehiel (now in the Getty Museum) [1]
• 1393 Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
• 1429 Dauphin crowned King Charles VII of France (despite having been king since 1422)
• 1453 Battle of Castillon: French army beats English force under John Talbot, turning point of the Hundred Years' War

• 1509 Venice recaptures nearby Italian city of Padua
• 1549 Jews are expelled from Ghent, Belgium
• 1552 Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
• 1583 Spanish and Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk

• 1596 At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya (Artic Ocean)

• 1686 A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defense, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
• 1712 Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]

• 1727 Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
• 1740 Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV

• 1794 Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church

• 1841 British humorous and satirical magazine "Punch" first published; it finally closed in 2002
• 1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
• 1856 The Great Train Wreck of 1856 between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills over 60 people
• 1858 Recovery of the bell of HMS Lutine from ship's wreck, hung from rostrum in Lloyd's of London's Underwriting Room
• 1861 At Manassas, Virginia General Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, General Johnston is ordered to Manassas
• 1861 US Congress authorizes paper money

• 1862 Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River Mississippi: USS Potomac Expedition
• 1862 United army officially divides corps
• 1862 US army authorized to accept African-Americans as laborers
• 1863 Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
• 1863 Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
• 1864 CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
• 1866 Italian fleet under Admiral Count Carlo Pellion di Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa
• 1867 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
• 1878 Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott ceding sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government, Southern Africa
• 1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii

• 1893 Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
• 1897 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon

• 1900 NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas
• 1902 Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia
• 1902 Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
• 1903 The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government

• 1911 Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
• 1912 IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
• 1915 Italian offensive at Isonzo

• 1918 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings

• 1919 Finland adopts constitution
• 1919 Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
• 1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto

• 1923 Carl Mays gives up 13 runs and 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
• 1924 St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0

• 1929 USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China
• 1933 After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Germany under mysterious circumstances

• 1935 "Variety" publishes famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"

• 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan leaves NY flying for LA, winds up in Ireland supposedly by mistake

• 1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
• 1942 Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record); flooding kills 15
• 1942 Transport #6 departs Pithiviers, France with 928 French Jews sent to Aushwitz Concentration camp; 45 survive until the war's end
• 1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
• 1944 Soviet troops cross Bug River and march into Poland
• 1944 WWII: Port Chicago Disaster - explosion during munition loading kills 322 and, injures nearly 400, destroys three ships and a pier at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California; conditions inspire the Port Chicago Mutiny later that summer

• 1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth
• 1948 Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea

• 1950 Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
• 1950 Suppression of Communism Act comes into force in South Africa
• 1951 Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered

• 1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
• 1954 Construction of Disneyland commences in Anaheim, California
• 1954 Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
• 1955 Arco, Idaho, becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
• 1955 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.

• 1958 King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation

• 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands

• 1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis

• 1959 River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
• 1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
• 1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of "Today Show"
• 1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
• 1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
• 1962 Senate rejects medicare for aged
• 1962 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

• 1963 Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden

• 1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
• 1964 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• 1965 WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (ABC) begins
• 1966 Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
• 1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
• 1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour, after playing 7 of a planned 29 shows
• 1967 Race riots in Cairo, Illinois
• 1968 Bloodless coup in Iraq led by General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
• 1968 The Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
• 1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
• 1972 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
• 1973 Military coup in Afghanistan, led by former prime minister, and cousin to the king, Mohammad Daoud Khan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah remains in Italy were he was receiving medical treatment at the time
• 1974 Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
• 1974 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll

• 1974 The Moody Blues open 1st quadrophonic recording studio in UK

• 1975 Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; attack the first major breach of a February truce
• 1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa

• 1979 Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament
• 1980 Bolivian military coup; General Garcia Meza becomes president

• 1980 Zenko Suzuki becomes Premier of Japan
• 1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23-year-old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
• 1981 Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another
• 1981 Humber Estuary Bridge in UK opens, world's longest span (1.4 km)
• 1981 Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
• 1981 Lobby walkways at Kansas City's Hyatt Regency hotel collapse killing 114 and injuring over 200
• 1981 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22)
• 1984 Pierre Mauroy resigns as Prime Minister of France
• 1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
• 1984 US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving federal highway funds
• 1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
• 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
• 1987 Iran and France break diplomatic relations

• 1988 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute

• 1988 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C)
• 1989 1st test flight of US stealth bomber

• 1989 Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
• 1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
• 1990 Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0

• 1992 Slovak parliament declares independence from Czechoslovakia, beginning the so-called Velvet Divorce
• 1993 Graeme Obree breaks the world hour cycling record, riding 51.596km on Old Faithful at the Hamar velodrome in Norway [1]
• 1994 French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche

• 1996 Paris-bound flight TWA 800, explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board the Boeing 747
• 1997 STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands

• 2004 Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against AIDS

• 2007 TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with estimated 199 deaths.
• 2009 Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners

• 2012 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

• 2013 58 people are killed in floods in Sichuan Province, China
• 2013 7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria

• 2014 5 hour humanitarian ceasefire, proposed by the UN, takes place between Israel and Hamas
• 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board

• 2015 Scientists solve mystery of sleeping sickness in two villages in northern Kazakhstan - uranium mining had caused increase in carbon monoxide
• 2015 Suicide bomber in Khan Bani Saad, Iraq, kills 120, ISIS claims responsibility

• 2017 The Muppets Studio in firing the voice of Kermit the Frog, Steve Whitmire, blame his “unacceptable business conduct”
• 2018 Australian basketball center Liz Cambage scores 53 points as the Dallas Wings beat the NY Liberty 104-87 to set new WNBA single game scoring record

• 2018 Bloomberg estimates NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8.1 billion to the league's 32 teams, $255m each
• 2018 Oldest evidence of bread, made from wild grains, discovered by archaeologists in 14,000 year-old dig in the Black Desert, Jordon
• 2019 Bulgaria announces 5 million people, virtually every adult, has had their personal information exposed after national tax agency hacked
• 2019 Irrigation canal system collapses near Fort Laramie, Wyoming parching 100,000 acres of farmland across Nebraska and Wyoming

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