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Today in History ~ July 17
Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea
Events0180 - Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death in Carthage
1203 - Venetians conquer Constantinople, emperor Alexius III flees
1429 - Dauphin crowned king of France
1453 - 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops End of 100 years war
1585 - English secret service discovers Anthony Babington's murder plot against queen Elizabeth I
1603 - Sir Walter Raleigh arrested
1762 - Peter III, the Russian emperor, was murdered, his wife Catherine II succeeded him
1774 - Capt Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)
1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1841 - British humor magazine `Punch' 1st published.
1850 - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1861 - Manassas, VA Gen Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, Gen Johnston is ordered to Manassas
1861 - Congress authorized the Treasury Department to print and circulate paper money.
1862 - US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1879 - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii.
1897 - 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to U.S. forces.
1916 - America's cash-strapped farmers got a dose of relief as Congress passed the Federal Farm Loan Act.
1917 - British king George V Saxe-Coberg and the royal family adopts the name `Windsor.' They had to 'de-Germanize' themselves for fear of losing the throne. (WW I you know.)
1919 - Yanks 21 hits Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17 on squeeze play
1923 - Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
1935 - Variety's famous headline `Sticks Nix Hick Pix.'
1936 - Military uprising under Gen Franco/begins Spanish civil war
1938 - Doug Corrigan. left Floyd Bennett Field in New York supposedly headed for Los Angeles landing about 28 hours later in Ireland at Dublin's Baldonnel Field - became famous as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. [H]
1941 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
1944 - 322 people were killed when two ammunition ships exploded in Port Chicago, Calif.
1945 - President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.
1948 - Rep of Korea founded.
1954 - 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 - Construction begins on Disneyland...
1955 - Disneyland opens its doors in Anaheim Cal [H]
1955 - Arco, Idaho, a town of 1,300 people, became the first community in the world to receive all its light and power from atomic energy.
1959 - Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600 000 years old)
1959 - Tibet abolishes serfdom
1961 - Roger Maris loses a HR due to a rain-out in the 5th
1962 - Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354 300 ft).
1964 - Donald Campbell the son of Britain's most prolific landspeed record holder Sir Malcolm Campbell drove the Proteus Bluebird to a four-wheel gasoline-powered landspeed record with two identical runs of 403 miles per hour at Lake Eyre South Australia.
1967 - Race riots in Cairo Illinois
1968 - Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1968 - Revolt in Iraq
1975 - US Apollo 18 and the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 19 rendezvoused and docked in space in the first superpower link-up of its kind.
1978 - Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
1979 - Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled into exile in Miami.
1980 - Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
1981 - Humbar Estuary Bridge UK world's longest span (1.4 km) is opened.
1981 - 114 people were killed and 200 were injured when a pair of walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a "tea dance."
1984 - Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.
1990 - The seven nations negotiating German unification reached agreement in Paris on Poland's permanent border, clearing the way for the merger of East and West Germany.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev made a personal appeal for Western aid at the conclusion of the Group of Seven economic summit in London.
1991 - The U.S. Senate voted 53-to-45 to give itself a $23,000 pay raise while at the same time banning outside speaking fees.
1992 - Slovak parliament asks for self rule
1995 - 32 people were injured when a Boston Green Line trolley rammed another train under Copley Square.
1996 - TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people aboard.
1997 - Woolworth Corp. announced it was closing its 400 remaining five-and-dime stores across the country, ending 117 years in business.
1998 - President Clinton became the first sitting U.S. president to be subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury as independent counsel Kenneth Starr continued his investigation into the Monica Lewinsky affair.
1998 - Russia buries tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died (executed on July 16, 1918)
1999 - A search began for the missing plane that was carrying John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, on a flight from New Jersey to Massachusetts. (The plane had crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard the night before, killing all three aboard.)
2000 - A jet smashed into two homes in Patna, India, killing a total of 56 people on board and on the ground.
2000 - Bashar Assad, son of Hafez Assad, began a seven-year term as Syria's 16th head of state.
Birthdays Today
1674 - Isaac Watts, in England writer & preacher
1744 - Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP governor of Mass. invented gerrymandering.
1762 - John Jacob Astor (fur tycoon: American Fur Company)
1859 - Mu¤oz Rivera, Puerto Rican patriot journalist.
1888 - Shmuel Agnon, Israeli novelist (Day Before Yesterday) (Nobel 1966).
1889 - Earl Stanley Gardner (A.A. Fair) (novelist: Perry Mason)
1899 - James Cagney (Academy Award-winning actor: Yankee Doodle Dandy [1942]; Mr. Roberts, The Seven Little Foys, Man of a Thousand Faces)
1905 - William Gargan (actor: Dynamite, The Canterville Ghost, Rain)
1912 - Art Linkletter (TV host: House Party, Kids Say the Darndest Things)
1916 - Eleanor Steber (soprano)
1917 - Lou Boudreau (Baseball Hall of Famer: Baseball Writer's Award: Cleveland Indians shortstop [1948]; manager: Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Athletics; sportscaster: Chicago Cubs)
1917 - Phyllis Diller (Driver) (comedienne: The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show, actress: Boy Did I Get the Wrong Number)
1930 - Roy McMillan (baseball: shortstop: Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, NY Mets)
1932 - Bob Leonard, basketball
1933 - Mimi Hines, singer
1934 - Donald Sutherland (actor: JFK, Klute, Backdraft, M*A*S*H, The Dirty Dozen, National Lampoon's Animal House, Outbreak)
1934 - Pat McCormick, Comedy writer
1935 - Diahann Carroll (Carol Diahann Johnson) (actress: Claudine, Julia, Dynasty, The Five Heartbeats)
1935 - P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele), composer.
1939 - Spencer Davis (musician: group: Spencer Davis Group: Keep on Runnin', Somebody Help Me, Gimme Some Lovin', I'm A Man)
1941 - Daryle Lamonica (football: Oakland Raiders quarterback: Super Bowl II)
1942 - Connie Hawkins, basketball
1942 - Don Kessinger (baseball: Chicago Cubs shortstop)
1948 - Cathy Ferguson, swimmer
1949 - Lon Hinkle, golfer
1949 - Terence 'Geezer' Butler (musician: bass: group: Black Sabbath: Paranoid)
1951 - Lucie Arnaz (actress: They're Playing Our Song, Here's Lucy; Emmy Award-winning producer w/Laurence Luckinbill: Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie [1992-93]; Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz' daughter)
1952 - David Hasselhof (actor: Bay Watch, Knight Rider, The Young and the Restless)
1952 - Phoebe Snow (Laub) (singer: Poetry Man, Gone at Last)
1953 - Mike Thomas, football
1963 - Robert Thigpen (baseball: Chicago White Sox relief pitcher: individual record for saves [57] in one season [1990])
Famous deaths
0924 - Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924),
1345 - Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched
1510 - Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48
1946 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslav gen (Nazi), executed at 53
1959 - Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, dies of cardiac failure at age 44. [H]
1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74
1974 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher (St Louis Cards), dies at 63
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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