Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 17
July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948).
- 1762 – Peter III was killed at Ropsha, a few days after he was deposed as Emperor of Russia and replaced by his wife Catherine II.
- 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon (pictured) made his formal surrender to British forces on board the HMS Bellerophon off the port of Rochefort, France, ending the Hundred Days.
- 1936 – Nationalist rebels in Spain attempted a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, commencing the Spanish Civil War.
- 1945 – Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry S. Truman met at the Potsdam Conference to decide how to administer post-World War II Germany.
- 1955 – Walt Disney's first theme park Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California.
- 1998 – Biologists reported in the scientific journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis.
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