This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
07/17/1487 Esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah 
07/17/1674 Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican) 
07/17/1702 Johann Schneider, composer 
07/17/1744 Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering 
07/17/1763 John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker 
07/17/1763 John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader 
07/17/1775 August Harder, composer 
07/17/1817 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer 
07/17/1827 Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet) 
07/17/1832 Johan August Soderman, composer 
07/17/1839 Friedrich Gernsheim, composer 
07/17/1853 Francesco Fanciulli, composer 
07/17/1859 Luis Mu¤oz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party

07/17/1871 Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter 
07/17/1875 Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer 
07/17/1876 Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat 
07/17/1876 Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991) 
07/17/1876 Vittorio Gnecchi, composer 
07/17/1878 Henri Zagw˜n, composer 
07/17/1883 Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Peace as Was, Nobel 1966) 
07/17/1883 Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon) 
07/17/1885 Benjamin James Dale, composer 
07/17/1888 Agnon [SJ Czaczkes], Hebrew writer (Curve becomes Right) 
07/17/1888 Shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966) 
07/17/1889 Erle Stanley Gardner, US detective writer (Perry Mason) 
07/17/1898 Berenice Abbott, Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget) 
07/17/1900 James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), hold that grapefruit 
07/17/1902 Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children) 
07/17/1903 Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer 
07/17/1905 William Gargan, Bkln NY, actor (Dynamite, Ellery Queen) 
07/17/1908 Rudolf Petzold, composer 
07/17/1909 Hardy Amies, London England, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II) 
07/17/1912 Art Linkletter, Saskatchwan Canada, TV host (People are Funny) 
07/17/1912 Pal Kov cs, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1952) 
07/17/1913 Everett Helm, composer 
07/17/1913 Roger Garaudy, French philosopher 
07/17/1914 Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies) 
07/17/1915 Dorothy Poynton-Hill, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1932) 
07/17/1915 Esther Williamson Ballou, composer 
07/17/1916 Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940) 
07/17/1917 Lou Bourdeau, baseball player/manager (1948 AP Athlete of Year) 
07/17/1917 Phyllis Diller, Lima Ohio, comedienne (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number

07/17/1920 Bill Monroe, New Orleans La, newscaster (NBC-TV, Congressional Repor

07/17/1920 Rudolf Karpati, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1956, 60) 
07/17/1921 George Barnes, Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show) 
07/17/1930 Ryohei Hirose, composer 
07/17/1932 Niccolo Castiglioni, composer 
07/17/1932 Wojciech Kilar, composer 
07/17/1934 Donald Sutherland, Canada, actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers) 
07/17/1934 Pat McCormick, comedian (Don Rickles Show, New Bill Cosby Show) 
07/17/1934 Philippe Capdenat, composer 
07/17/1935 Diahann Carroll, Bronx, actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty)

07/17/1935 P D Q Bach, [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven) 
07/17/1939 Spencer Davis, Wales, vocalist (Gimme Some Lovin) 
07/17/1940 Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$) 
07/17/1941 Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raider QB (AFL leading passer 1967) 
07/17/1942 Connie Hawkins, Harlem Globetrotter/NBA (Phoenix Suns, ABA MVP 1968)

07/17/1942 Gale Garnett, Auckland NZ, singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine) 
07/17/1945 Fenneken Fockema Andreae, actress (The Sea Gull) 
07/17/1947 Camilla Parker Bowles, London England, Prince Charles' lover 
07/17/1948 Brian Glascock, drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely) 
07/17/1948 Cathy Ferguson, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964) 
07/17/1949 Terry 'Geezer' Butler, bassist (Black Sabbath) 
07/17/1951 Lucie Arnaz, LA Calif, actress (Kim-Here's Lucy, Jazz Singer) 
07/17/1952 David Hasselhoff, Balt Md, (Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Night Rider

07/17/1952 Phoebe Snow, singer (Theme from 'It's a Different World') 
07/17/1952 Robert R[ick] McCammon, US, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk) 
07/17/1952 Th‚ Lau, singer/guitarist/composer (The Scene, Row Row Row) 
07/17/1956 Bryan Trottier, Val Marie Sask, NHL Center (NY Islanders) 
07/17/1960 Jan Wouters, soccer star (Ajax, Bayern Munich) 
07/17/1960 Karen Price, Pasadena Calif, playmate (January, 1981) 
07/17/1960 Scott Norwood, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Superbowl XXV goat) 
07/17/1962 Jay Barrs, Jacksonville Fla, US archer (Olympic-gold-88, 92) 
07/17/1963 Denise Miller, Bkln NY, actress (Billie-Archie Bunker's Place) 
07/17/1964 Heather Langenkamp, actress (Marie-Just the 10 of Us) 
07/17/1970 Mandy Smith, England, rocker (I Just Can't Wait) wife of Bill Wyman 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/17/ 924 Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies 
07/17/1025 Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies 
07/17/1070 Boudew˜n VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies 
07/17/1345 Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched 
07/17/1627 Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67 
07/17/1682 Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29 
07/17/1709 Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60 
07/17/1746 Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53 
07/17/1762 Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34 
07/17/1763 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45 
07/17/1794 Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45 
07/17/1826 Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65 
07/17/1838 John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 
07/17/1851 Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37 
07/17/1863 James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35 
07/17/1864 Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29 
07/17/1864 Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71 
07/17/1871 Carl Tausig, composer, dies at 29 
07/17/1875 Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77 
07/17/1878 Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65

07/17/1901 John Farmer, composer, dies at 64 
07/17/1903 James McNeill Whistler, US/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 6

07/17/1912 J-Henri Poincar‚, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58 
07/17/1915 Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday 
07/17/1918 Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed 
07/17/1918 Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of czar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46 
07/17/1918 Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17 
07/17/1918 Botkin, personal physician of czar Nicolas II, shot to death 
07/17/1918 Charitonov, cook of czar Nicolas II, shot to death 
07/17/1918 Demidova, lady in waiting of czar Nicolas II, shot to death 
07/17/1918 Maria Romanova, daughter of czar Nicolas II, shot to death 
07/17/1918 Nicolas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50 
07/17/1918 Olga Romanova, daughter of czar Nicolas II, shot to death 
07/17/1918 Tatjana Romanova, daughter of czar Nicolas II, shot to death 
07/17/1918 Trupp, lackey of czar Nicolas II, shot to death 
07/17/1922 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57 
07/17/1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/pres of Mexico, assassinated 
07/17/1928 Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies 
07/17/1937 Henry Constant Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73 
07/17/1944 Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies 
07/17/1946 Dragoljub 'Draza' Mihailovic, Yugoslav general/helped Nazi, executed

07/17/1946 Mikhailovich, resistance leader, executed by Tito regime 
07/17/1947 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34

07/17/1953 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65 
07/17/1953 Maude K Adams, US actress (Little Minister), dies 
07/17/1954 Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85 
07/17/1955 Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73 
07/17/1959 Billy Holliday [Eleanora Fagan], US blues singer, dies at 44 
07/17/1959 Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78 
07/17/1959 Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies 
07/17/1961 Ty Cobb, Detroit Tiger hall of fame baseball player, dies at 75 
07/17/1965 Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57 
07/17/1966 August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71 
07/17/1967 John Coltrane, US jazz sax/composer (Round Midnight), dies at 40 
07/17/1971 Cliff Edwards, 'Ukulele Ike', singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76

07/17/1974 Jay Hanna 'Dizzy' Dean, pitcher (St Louis Cards), dies at 63 
07/17/1975 Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal) 
07/17/1980 Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68 
07/17/1984 J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89 
07/17/1985 Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93 
07/17/1985 Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor 
07/17/1988 Bruiser Brody, wrestler, stabbed to death 
07/17/1993 Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black girl goes to school), dies at 61 
07/17/1993 Scott Salmon, US choreographer (La cage aux folles), dies at 51 
07/17/1993 Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/17/ 561 John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I 
07/17/ 855 St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
07/17/1054 Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king 
07/17/1070 Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders 
07/17/1203 Venetianen conquer Constantinople, emperor Alexius III flees 
07/17/1245 Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time 
07/17/1393 Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria 
07/17/1473 Charles the Stout conquerors N˜megen 
07/17/1549 Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium 
07/17/1583 Spanish & Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk 
07/17/1596 At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya 
07/17/1712 English government signs ceasefire with France 
07/17/1727 Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor 
07/17/1774 Capt Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata) 
07/17/1775 1st military hospital approved 
07/17/1794 African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated 
07/17/1794 Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church

07/17/1841 British humor magazine 'Punch' 1st published 
07/17/1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega) 
07/17/1856 Sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Phila) 
07/17/1861 Congress authorizes paper money 
07/17/1862 Navel Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition 
07/17/1862 US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers 
07/17/1862 United army officially divides corps 
07/17/1863 Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory 
07/17/1864 CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood 
07/17/1866 Italian fleet under adm Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa 
07/17/1867 1st permanent university dental school in US, Harvard 
07/17/1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii 
07/17/1897 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon 
07/17/1898 Spanish American War-Spaniads surrender to US at Santiago Cuba 
07/17/1902 Baltimore (AL) didn't have enough men to field their team 
07/17/1911 Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army 
07/17/1912 IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden 
07/17/1914 NY Giants beat Pitts Pirates, 3-1, in 21 innings 
07/17/1915 Italian offensive at Isonzo 
07/17/1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor 
07/17/1918 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings 
07/17/1919 Finland adopts constitution 
07/17/1919 Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play 
07/17/1922 Cura‡ao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto 
07/17/1923 Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians 
07/17/1924 St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 
07/17/1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4) 
07/17/1929 USSR drops diplomatic relations with China 
07/17/1935 Variety's famous headline 'Sticks Nix Hick Pix' 
07/17/1936 Military uprising under Gen Franco/begins Spanish civil war 
07/17/1938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland 
07/17/1939 Henry Picard wins PGA golf tournament 
07/17/1941 Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends 
07/17/1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15 
07/17/1942 Estimated 34.5' (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record) 
07/17/1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket bases 
07/17/1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322 
07/17/1944 Russian troops march into Poland 
07/17/1945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting 
07/17/1946 Resistance leader Mikhailovich executed by Tito regime 
07/17/1948 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1685 Toro 
07/17/1948 Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea 
07/17/1950 Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka 
07/17/1951 King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudew˜n I 
07/17/1952 Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier 
07/17/1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers) 
07/17/1954 Construction begins on Disneyland. . . 
07/17/1954 Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany 
07/17/1955 . . . Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County 
07/17/1955 Arco, Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power 
07/17/1958 King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation 
07/17/1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis 
07/17/1959 Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old) 
07/17/1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom 
07/17/1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show 
07/17/1961 Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th 
07/17/1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall 
07/17/1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) 
07/17/1962 Senate rejects medicare for aged 
07/17/1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph

07/17/1965 WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (ABC) begin

07/17/1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3) 
07/17/1966 Pioneer 7 launched 
07/17/1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act 
07/17/1967 Race riots in Cairo Illinois 
07/17/1968 Beatle's animated film 'Yellow Submarine' premieres in London 
07/17/1968 Revolt in Iraq 
07/17/1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC 
07/17/1972 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico 
07/17/1973 Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees 
07/17/1974 1st quadrophinic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues 
07/17/1974 Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 
07/17/1974 John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days 
07/17/1975 Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space 
07/17/1975 Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce 
07/17/1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montr‚al 
07/17/1976 ABA merges into NBA 
07/17/1976 Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor 
07/17/1978 Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend hi

07/17/1979 NL beats AL 7-6 in 50th All Star Game (Kingdome Seattle) 
07/17/1979 Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami 
07/17/1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo 
07/17/1979 Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament 
07/17/1980 Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president 
07/17/1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president 
07/17/1980 Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan 
07/17/1981 Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens 
07/17/1981 Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut 
07/17/1981 Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured 
07/17/1983 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22) 
07/17/1984 Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France 
07/17/1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7 
07/17/1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx) 
07/17/1987 Iran & France breaks diplomatic relations 
07/17/1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49) 
07/17/1988 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103ø F (39ø C) 
07/17/1989 1st test flight of US stealth-bomber 
07/17/1989 Paul McCartney releases 'This One' 
07/17/1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

07/17/1990 NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer 
07/17/1990 PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis 
07/17/1992 Slovak parliament askes for self rule 
07/17/1993 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km 
07/17/1994 Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup 
07/17/1994 Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win the WCW wrestling championship 
  
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