What are the important events that happened on July 17? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 17: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 17 is the 199th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 4, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,686,240 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontaenneagon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 196 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,226 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 17 Historical Events
- 1203 –The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
- 1586 –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.
- 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.
- 1918 –On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
- 1932 –Altona Bloody Sunday.
- 1955 –Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
- 1962 –Nuclear weapons testing: The “Small Boy” test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
- 1968 –A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
- 1976 –History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
- 1979 –Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
Who were born on July 17?
- 1926 –Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
- 1929 –Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
- 1942 –Peter Sissons, British newsreader
- 1944 –Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
- 1954 –Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
- 1963 –Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1973 –Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
- 1978 –Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
- 1983 –Adam Lind, American baseball player
- 1987 –Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player
Who died on July 17?
- 1791 –Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
- 1881 –Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
- 1918 –Family of Emperor Nicholas II Alexandrovich (b. 1868): Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (b. 1901)
- 1918 –Family of Emperor Nicholas II Alexandrovich (b. 1868): Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna (b. 1897)
- 1935 –George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
- 1974 –Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b. 1910)
- 1995 –Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
- 2005 –Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
- 2006 –Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
- 2007 –Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
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