Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 17
This is a list of selected July 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, California -
Recovered TWA Flight 800 wreckage -
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Yama-boko Junkō in Kyoto, Japan | no footnotes |
| 1762 – Peter III was killed while in custody at Ropsha, a few days after he was deposed as Emperor of Russia and replaced by his wife Catherine II. | neutrality issues |
| 1791 – French Revolution: Members of the National Guard fired into a large crowd that was gathered at the Champ de Mars, Paris to sign a petition demanding the removal of King Louis XVI. | apart from long excerpts of primary sources, kind of short |
| 1899 – The Nippon Electric Company was founded as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. | lead too short |
| 1938 – American aviator Douglas Corrigan earned the nickname "Wrong Way" after he flew east from Brooklyn, New York City, to County Dublin, Ireland, when he intended to go west to Long Beach, California. | needs more footnotes |
| 1955 – Disneyland, the only theme park to be designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney, opened in Anaheim, California, during a televised ceremony. | needs more footnotes |
| 1998 – A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake devastated 10 villages in Papua New Guinea, killing an estimated 1,500 people, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for, and destroying the homes of thousands more. | Tagged with {{expand}} |
| 1998 – Biologists reported in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis. | Tagged with {{expand}} |
Eligible
- 1867 – In Boston, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established as the first university-based dental school in the United States.
- 1918 – RMS Carpathia, which had rescued the survivors of the RMS Titanic sinking, was itself sunk by a German U-boat.
- 1918 – Russian Revolution: Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II and his family at Yekaterinburg.
- 1944 – Two ships laden with ammunition for World War II exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, killing 320 sailors and civilians, and injuring more than 400 others.
- 1945 – Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry S. Truman, leaders of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States respectively, met in Potsdam to decide what should be done with post-World War II Germany.
- 1968 – Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (pictured), the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi President Abdul Rahman Arif.
- 1992 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Manchester Metrolink, a light rail system in Greater Manchester, England.
- 1996 – TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
- 2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crash landed at the Congonhas-São Paulo Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 199 people, the highest death toll of any aviation accident in Latin America and the highest death toll of any accident involving an Airbus A320 airliner in the world.
Notes
- Truce of Leulinghem appears on July 18, so Battle of Castillon should not appear in the same year
July 17: Feast day of the Scillitan Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church); Constitution Day in South Korea (1948)
- 1453 – The Battle of Castillon, the last conflict of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all landholdings in France, except Calais.
- 1771 – Dene men, acting as guides to Samuel Hearne on his exploration of the Coppermine River in present-day Nunavut, Canada, massacred a group of about 20 Copper Inuit.
- 1936 – Nationalist rebels attempted a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
- 1973 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last King of Afghanistan, was ousted in a coup by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
- 1981 – A structural failure caused a walkway at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, US, to collapse (damage pictured), killing 114 people and injuring 216 others.