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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Images
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast day of the Scillitan Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church); | date not cited |
| Yama-boko Junkō in Kyoto, Japan | unreferenced section |
| 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 the Great. | Peter: missing page numbers, neutrality issues; Catherine: refimprove section |
| 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 Louis XVI. | page numbers missing |
| 1867 - In Boston, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established as the first university-based dental school in the United States. | refimprove section |
| 1899 – The Nippon Electric Company was founded as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. | date not cited |
| 1918 – Russian Revolution: Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II and his family at Yekaterinburg. | lead too long |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1945 – Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin (all pictured), leaders of the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union respectively, met in Potsdam to decide what should be done with post-war Germany. | copy editing needed |
| 1951 - After a protracted political crisis and the abdication of his predecessor, Baudouin became the fifth King of the Belgians. | unreferenced section |
| 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 |
| 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. | Shah: refimprove section; Khan: unreferenced sections |
| 1998 – Biologists reported in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis. | Tagged with {{expand}}, date only in footnote |
| 2009 – Two suicide bombers detonated themselves at two separate hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia. | refimprove section |
| Dorothea Dix |d|1887| | lead too short |
| Berenice Abbott |b|1898| | refimprove sections |
| Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio |b|1918| | missing information |
Eligible
- 1453 – The Battle of Castillon (depicted), the last conflict of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all landholdings in France except Calais.
- 1863 – The New Zealand Wars resumed as British forces led by General Duncan Cameron began the Invasion of the Waikato.
- 1918 – RMS Carpathia, which had rescued survivors of the 1912 Titanic sinking, was sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of five crew.
- 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.
- 1992 – Elizabeth II officially opened the Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light rail system in the United Kingdom.
- 1996 – TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
- 1998 – A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake devastated several villages in Papua New Guinea, killing more than 2,100 people, and destroying the homes of thousands more.
- 2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crash-landed at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 199 people, the highest death toll of any aviation accident in Brazil and the highest death toll of any accident involving an Airbus A320 airliner.
- 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
- Born/died this day: | Empress Dowager Du |d|961| Sverker II of Sweden |d|1210| Eunice Newton Foote |b|1819| James Somerville |b|1882| Tatiana Nikolaevna |d|1918| Wong Kar-wai |b|1958| António Costa |b|1961
Notes
- Truce of Leulinghem appears on July 18, so Battle of Castillon should not appear in the same year
July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948); World Emoji Day
- 1048 – Damasus II began his 23-day-long papacy, one of the shortest in history.
- 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.
- 1968 – Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif.
- 1981 – A structural failure caused a walkway at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., to collapse (damage pictured), killing 114 people and injuring 216 others.
- Maurycy Gottlieb (d. 1879)
- Mary Osborne (b. 1921)
- Florence Fuller (d. 1946)