Notable Historical Events on July 17th
July 17th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
180 |
6 inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. |
561 |
John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I |
855 |
St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1054 |
Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king |
1070 |
Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders |
1203 |
Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboad a Venetian fleet attack the city |
1245 |
Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time |
1393 |
Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria |
1429 |
Dauphin crowned king of France |
1453 |
1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops |
1473 |
Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen |
1509 |
Venice recaptures Padua |
1549 |
Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium |
1552 |
Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun |
1583 |
Spanish & Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk |
1585 |
English secret service discovers Anthony Babington's murder plot against Queen Elizabeth I |
1596 |
At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya |
1603 |
Sir Walter Raleigh arrested by forces of King James |
1686 |
A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League. |
1712 |
England, Portugal & France sign ceasefire [or 19th] |
1717 |
Handel's "Water Music" premieres on the river Thames in London |
1727 |
Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor |
1740 |
Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV |
1762 |
Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III |
1774 |
Captain Cook arrives in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) |
1775 |
1st military hospital approved |
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. |
1794 |
Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church |
1821 |
Spain cedes Florida to US |
1841 |
British humorous and satirycal 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. |
1861 |
US Congress authorizes paper money |
1861 |
Manassas, VA Gen Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, Gen Johnston is ordered to Manassas |
1862 |
Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition |
1862 |
US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers |
1862 |
United army officially divides corps |
1862 |
R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, KY CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, TN |
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 Gen 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 |
1882 |
6th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (6-1 2-6 4-6 6-2 6-2) |
1885 |
9th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (7-5, 6-2 4-6 7-5) |
1886 |
10th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-0 5-7 6-3 6-4) |
1890 |
Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony |
1893 |
Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket |
1897 |
1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon |
1898 |
Spanish American War - Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba |
1900 |
NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas |
1902 |
Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL |
1902 |
Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia |
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 |
1906 |
Clement Armand Fallieres is elected President of France, but power lies with George Clemenceau |
1911 |
Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army |
1912 |
IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden |
1914 |
Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1 |
1915 |
Italian offensive at Isonzo |
1917 |
Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor |
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 |
1922 |
Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year |
1923 |
Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians |
1924 |
St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
1925 |
Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits |
1926 |
Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4) |
1929 |
USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China |
1933 |
After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances. |
1934 |
Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland |
1935 |
Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" |
1936 |
Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0 |
1936 |
Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War |
1938 |
Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland |
1939 |
22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY |
1941 |
NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland |
1942 |
3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15 |
1942 |
Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record) |
1942 |
Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1943 |
RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde |
1944 |
2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322 |
1944 |
Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland |
1945 |
Potsdam Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting |
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 |
King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son Boudouin I |
1951 |
Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered. |
1952 |
Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier |
1954 |
1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers) |
1954 |
Construction begins on Disneyland. . . |
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 |
Peter Shaffer's "Five Finger Exercise" premieres in London |
1958 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak |
1959 |
2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis |
1959 |
Tibet abolishes serfdom |
1959 |
River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana) |
1959 |
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers the partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) that lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago |
1961 |
John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show |
1961 |
Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th |
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 |
1964 |
ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace |
1965 |
WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (ABC) begins |
1966 |
"It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin NYC after 129 perfs |
1966 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
1966 |
Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit |
1966 |
Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3) |
1966 |
Pioneer 7 launched |
1967 |
Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act |
1967 |
Race riots in Cairo Illinois |
1968 |
Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London |
1968 |
Revolt in Iraq |
1970 |
30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC |
1971 |
Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship |
1972 |
1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico |
1973 |
Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees |
1974 |
1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues |
1974 |
Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo) |
1974 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1974 |
John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days |
1975 |
Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space |
1975 |
Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; the attack was the first major breach of a February truce |
1976 |
21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal |
1976 |
Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor |
1976 |
The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team. |
1977 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
1978 |
NY Yank manager Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson fight in dug out |
1978 |
Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him |
1979 |
50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle |
1979 |
All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates) |
1979 |
David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston |
1979 |
Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami |
1979 |
Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo |
1979 |
Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament |
1980 |
Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president |
1980 |
Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for US president |
1980 |
Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan |
1981 |
"This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 perfs |
1981 |
Humber Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens |
1981 |
Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut |
1981 |
Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured |
1981 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
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 |
1983 |
112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale |
1983 |
1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22) |
1983 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic |
1984 |
Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France |
1984 |
Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7 |
1986 |
Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time |
1987 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo |
1987 |
10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx) |
1987 |
Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8) |
1987 |
Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time |
1987 |
Iran & France breaks diplomatic relations |
1988 |
117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham |
1988 |
4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute |
1988 |
Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1988 |
Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49) |
1988 |
Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C) |
1989 |
1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber |
1989 |
Paul McCartney releases "This One" |
1989 |
Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances |
1990 |
Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq |
1990 |
NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer |
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 asks for self rule |
1993 |
Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km |
1994 |
123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland |
1994 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
1994 |
Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup |
1994 |
French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche |
1994 |
Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship |
1995 |
Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B) |
1996 |
230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of NYC |
1996 |
Yank John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves |
1996 |
TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board. |
1997 |
STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands |
1998 |
Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died |
2004 |
Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators |
2004 |
Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against Aids |
2005 |
Tiger Woods wins his 10th major winning The British Open Championship by 5 strokes. Woods becomes only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to win each major more than once |
2005 |
134th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 274 at St Andrews |
2005 |
13th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sorenstam win |
2007 |
TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths. |
2009 |
Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners. |
2011 |
140th British Golf Open: Darren Clarke shoots a 275 at Royal St George's Golf Club |
2012 |
17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
2013 |
7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria |
2013 |
58 people are killed in floods in Sichuan Province, China |
2013 |
21st ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Serena Williams win |
2013 |
U2 singer Bono is made a Commandeur of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres |
2014 |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashes (presumed shot down by either pro-Russian separatists or the Ukrainian militia), killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board |
2016 |
Vietnam Police Detain Dozens in Anti-China Protest |
2016 |
FAA bans flights between the US and Turkey |
2018 |
US lawmakers call Trump 'weak' in summit with Russia's Putin |
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