17th July

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The July 17 is the 198th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 199th in leap years ), thus remain 167 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

1402: Emperor Yongle (Zhu Di)
1453: France during the Hundred Years War
1897: Gold prospecting trek towards Klondike
George V.
1945: Potsdam Conference : Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Josef Stalin (from left to right)

economy

1955: Disneyland

science and technology

1854: Course of the Semmering Railway
1981: Humber Bridge

Culture

1717: Handel with George I while sailing the Thames
  • 1717: The second Suite of Water Music by George Frideric Handel is performed for the first time on a pleasure trip by the British King George I on the Thames . The king is so enthusiastic about the music that he has some parts played several times.
1841: Title Page of Punch (1867)

society

religion

Disasters

  • 1944: The two transport ships E. A. Bryan and S. S. Quinault Victory ( USA ) explode while taking over ammunition in Port Chicago in the north of the Bay of San Francisco ; 320 dead. Then breaks a Marine - mutiny from.
1981: View of the hotel lobby the day after
2007: Flight 3054

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

1976: The Stade Olympique in Montréal

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .

Born

Before the 18th century

  • 1487: Ismail I , Shah of Iran and founder of the Safavid dynasty
Maria Salviati (* 1499)

18th century

Friedrich Christian (* 1708)

19th century

1801-1850

Hermann Plüddemann (* 1809)

1851-1900

Clara Viebig (* 1860)
Mauritz Stiller (* 1883)

20th century

1901-1925

Aleksander Gieysztor (* 1916)

1926-1950

Wojciech Kilar (* 1932)
Donald Sutherland (* 1935)
Camilla Mountbatten-Windsor (* 1947)

1951-1975

Angela Merkel (* 1954)
Letsie III. (* 1963)
Cory Doctorow (* 1971)

1976-2000

Natasha Hamilton (* 1982)
Jan Charouz (* 1987)

Died

Before the 16th century

Fujiwara no Kiyosuke († 1177)

15th to 17th century

George I (* 1558)

18th century

Marie Elisabeth († 1755)

19th century

Adolf († 1803)

20th century

1901-1950

Russian tsarist family († 1918)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau († 1927)

1951-2000

  • 1953: Maude Adams , American stage actress
  • 1955: Ludwig Wolker , leading figure in the Catholic youth movement, co-founder of the Association of German Catholic Youth
  • 1956: Bodo von Borries , German electrical engineer, co-inventor of the electron microscope
  • 1957: Carl Auböck senior , Austrian painter and designer
Billie Holiday († 1959)

21st century

Johannes Braun († 2004)
Leszek Kołakowski († 2009)
Jules Bianchi († 2015)

Holidays and memorial days

  • Church memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .


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