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July 17th, 2006 (July 17 2006) | Death | Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (born in 1936) | |
July 17th, 2006 (July 17 2006) | Death | Mickey Spillane, American author (born in 1918) | Mickey Spillane Quotes |
July 17th, 1996 (July 17 1996) | Event | Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes, killing all 230 on board. | |
July 17th, 1996 (July 17 1996) | Death | Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (born in 1938) | |
July 17th, 1986 (July 17 1986) | Birth | Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX) | |
July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Event | History of East Timor: East Timor was annexed, and became the 27th province of Indonesia. | |
July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Event | The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team | |
July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Birth | Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress | |
July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Birth | Eric Winter, American actor | |
July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Birth | Matthew Holmes, Australian actor | |
July 17th, 1966 (July 17 1966) | Birth | Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician | |
July 17th, 1956 (July 17 1956) | Birth | Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player | |
July 17th, 1946 (July 17 1946) | Birth | Alun Armstrong, English actor | |
July 17th, 1946 (July 17 1946) | Death | General Dragoljub Mihailovic, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (born in 1893) | |
July 17th, 1936 (July 17 1936) | Event | Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war. | |
July 17th, 1926 (July 17 1926) | Birth | Edouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler | |
July 17th, 1926 (July 17 1926) | Birth | Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer | |
July 17th, 1856 (July 17 1856) | Event | The Great Train Wreck of 1856, occurs in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania killing over 60 people. | |
July 17th, 1686 (July 17 1686) | Event | A meeting takes place at Luneburg 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. | |
July 17th, 1566 (July 17 1566) | Death | Bartolome de Las Casas, Spanish priest (born in 1484) | |
July 17th, 0656 (July 17 0656) | Death | Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated. | |