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Today In History – July 17
July 17 is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:
July 17 is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year.
EVENTS
180 - 12 inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians.
1203 - The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault.
1402 – Yongle becomes Emperor of China.
1429 - Hundred Years' War: Charles VIII of France is crowned King.
1453 - Battle of Castillon: France defeats England in the last battle of the Hundred Years' War.
1717 - George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered, as King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians.
1771 - Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chef Matonabbee, travelling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland expedition, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
1791 - Members of France's National Guard under control of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, killing 50 people.
1821 – Florida goes into US control.
1863 - The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by Duncan Cameron begin their invasion at Waikato.
1897 – The Klondike Gold Rush begins in North-western Canada.
1917 – The British Royal Family changes its name to Windsor.
1918 – Nicholas II, the Czar of Russia, his wife, and their 5 children are executed by the Bolsheviks, under orders from Vladimir Lenin.
1936 – The Spanish Civil War begins.
1944 - Port Chicago disaster: At Port Chicago near San Francisco Bay, two ships carrying ammunition for the war explode, killing 320 people.
1944 - World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, France.
1945 - World War II: Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin meet in Potsdam to discuss the future of a defeated Germany.
1948 – The South Korean Constitution is proclaimed.
1955 – Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
1962 - Nuclear weapons testing: The Small Boy test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation of the Nevada National Security Site.
1968 - A revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed in power with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as new President.
1973 – Afghanistan: Mohammed Daoud Khan removes his cousin Mohammed Zahir Shah from power.
1976 – 25 African countries boycott the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
1976 – Indonesia takes control of East Timor.
1979 – The Sandinistas start to govern Nicaragua, after Anastasio Somoza Debayle flees to Miami, Florida.
1981 - The Humber Bridge in England is opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
1981 - A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, collapses, killing 114 people and injuring over 200.
1989 - Poland restores diplomatic relations with Vatican City.
1994 – Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for a fourth time, after a penalty shootout win over Italy, which is remembered for Roberto Baggio's missed penalty kick.
1996 – A Boeing 747 airplane explodes near Long Island, New York, killing 230 people.
1998 - At a conference in Rome 120 countries vote to create the International Criminal Court.
1998 – An earthquake causes a tsunami, which destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing 3,183 people, and leaving more than 2,000 unaccounted for.
1998 - 80 years after being executed, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried at the St. Catherine Chapel in St. Petersburg.
2001 - Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year a crash near Paris.
2006 – A tsunami south of Java kills around 300 people.
2007 – A plane crashes and bursts into flames at São Paulo International Airport in Brazil, killing all 187 people on board, and 12 on the ground.
2011 – Japan wins the FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating the United States in a penalty shoot-out.
2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashes in Eastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, having been reportedly shot down by a missile, killing all 298 people on board.
2014 - Israel-Gaza Strip Conflict: Israel launches a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
2015 - Over 120 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Iraq.
2015 - Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi dies of injuries sustained in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix over nine months earlier, at the age of 25.
2018 - The European Union-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement is signed.
2019 - The Kivu Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization.
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