Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 17
July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948)
- 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon surrendered to British forces at Rochefort, France, ending the Hundred Days.
- 1945 - Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry S. Truman met at the Potsdam Conference to decide how to administer post-World War II Germany.
- 1975 - History of East Timor: East Timor was annexed and became the 27th province of Indonesia.
- 1996 - Paris-bound TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.
- 1998 - Biologists reported in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.