July 17

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 17. From 1900 until now. July 17 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Angela Merkel (1954), Camilla Duchess of Cornwall (1947) and Adrian Ross Duncan (1949). Several movies were released around July 17 over the years, such as Spirited Away in 2001 directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise and Devil's Island in 1926 directed by Frank O'Connor.
But much more happened on July 17 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Kyoto, Japan - Gion Matsuri
Various mathematics departments - Yellow Pig's Day
South Korea - Constitution Day
Puerto Rico - Luis Mu�oz Rivera's Birthday
Feast Day of St Cynllo
Iraq - Ba'ath Revolution Day
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Events

2019 2018–19 Kivu Ebola epidemic: The World Health Organisation declares the most recent Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. (The Guardian)
2018 Gaza–Israel conflict, 2018 Gaza border protests: The Israel Defense Forces are instructed to prepare for a large-scale military offensive in Gaza if demands for Hamas to halt the launches of flaming kites, incendiary devices and rocket attacks are not met by Friday. (The Times of Israel)
2017 Moro conflict: A new set of kidnappings and a jail break plague Sulu province in the southern region of Mindanao in the Philippines. (The Japan Times)
2016 At least one person is reportedly killed and others are taken hostage after an armed group seized control of the police headquarters in the Erebuni District of Yerevan, Armenia. The gunmen are demanding the release of jailed opposition figure, Jirair Sefilian, according to Armenia's National Security Service. (RT)
2015 Boko Haram, Timeline of Boko Haram insurgency: Suicide bombers killed at least 64 people in multiple blasts in the northeastern towns of Gombe and Damaturu, Nigeria. (WSJ via AP)(Local 10) (BBC)Niger’s army killed at least 30 suspected Boko Haram fighters as it searched for militants in villages just over the border with Nigeria. (NewsDay Zimbabwe)
2014 2014 insurgency in Donbass:: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 carrying 298 people from multiple countries is shot down near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. (BBC) (Reuters)Ukraine accuses a Russian Air Force jet of shooting down a Ukrainian warplane over its territory. (Sky News Australia)
2013 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula confirms that its former deputy Said Ali al-Shihri was killed in a US drone strike. (ABC Online)
2012 Marissa Mayer, who was a top executive at Google for the past 13 years, is appointed Yahoo! Inc.'s CEO. (AP)
2011 Arab Spring
2010 Dozens of English football fans clash with dogs and riot police in a busy shopping square in York, causing its closure. (BBC)
2009 Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," dies in New York at age 92.
2008 American investment bank Merrill Lynch & Company posts a US$4.89 billion quarterly loss after writing down bad debts, and unveils plans to sell billions of dollars of assets.
2007 TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aereas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in Sao Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.
2006 Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' lands successfully on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility of the Kennedy Space Center, ending a 13-day mission to the International Space Station. (BBC)
2005 Disneyland celebrates its 50th Anniversary.
2004 Allegations surface that Iyad Allawi himself summarily executed six prisoners at a Baghdad police station one week before becoming Iraqi prime minister, to "send a clear message to the police on how to deal with insurgents". His office completely denies the event. (SMH) (Age)
2003 Same-sex marriage in Canada: the federal government releases its draft bill to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples while protecting the rights of clergy not to perform marriages that run counter to their religious beliefs. The government will seek a reference from the Supreme Court of Canada to ensure the bill is constitutional.
2000 The 10th President of Syria, Bashar al Assad, assumed office.
1999 The Pabok Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada is renamed to Le Rocher-Percé after the Percé Rock.
1998 Russia buries tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died
1997 STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
1996 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of New York City
1995 Forbes Magazine announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
1994 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1993 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km
1992 Slovak parliament asks for self rule
1991 President Bush and President Gorbachev reach an agreement on START II, which is formally signed on July 31.
1990 Minn Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
1989 1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber
1988 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham
1987 Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
1986 Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time
1984 Pierre Mauroy resigns as Premier of France
1983 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
1981 This is Burlesque closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 performances
1980 Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes President
1979 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
1978 New York Yank manager Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson fight in dug out
1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 Indonesian President Suharto annexes East Timor
1975 Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make 1st US / USSR linkup in space
1974 Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
1973 Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees
1972 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
1971 Kathy Whitworth / Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship
1970 Ralph Baer demonstrates his television video game system to Magnavox. Despite a lack of interest from most Magnavox engineers, Bill Enders negotiates an exclusive license to manufacture and distribute the system, and sublicense Sanders Associates' patents on the technology.
1969 The New York Times publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published in 13 Jan 1920 that spaceflight is impossible.ref name=quotastronauticsnow_com-indexquotRobert H. Goddard. ''The New York Times''. astronauticsnow.com/history/goddard/index.html 090118 astronauticsnow.com
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.
1967 The Monkees music group performs at Forest Hills, New York; Jimi Hendrix is opening act.
1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1965 WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (ABC) begins
1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 km/h (429.31 mph)
1963 Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
1961 Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 games
1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
1958 King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan / Iraqi federation
1955 Arco, Idaho becomes first US city lit by nuclear power.
1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1952 Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh Premier
1951 King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
1950 Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth
1947 The Indian passenger ship ''Ramdas'' is capsized by a cyclone at Mumbai, India, with 625 people killed.
1945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
1943 United Artists releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film Victory Through Air Power to theaters.
1942 Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1941 WWII: A BBC broadcast by ampquotColonel Brittonampquot calls on the people of occupied Europe to resist the Nazis under the slogan ampquotV for Victoryampquot.
1939 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok Country Club - Flushing, New York
1938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves New York for LA, wound up in Ireland
1936 Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0
1934 Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1929 USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
1928 José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico.
1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
1925 Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1924 Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.
1923 Carl Mays gives up 13 runs and 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Cleveland Indians.
1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1919 Finland adopts constitution
1918 Longest errorless game, Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings.
1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor.
1915 Italian offensive at Isonzo
1914 Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
1912 IAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1911 Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
1902 Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the American League
1900 New York Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Brooklyn Superbas
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