Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 17
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July 17: Yama-boko Junkō in Kyoto, Japan; Constitution Day in South Korea
- 1791 – French Revolution: Members of the National Guard fired into a large crowd that was gathered at the Champ de Mars in Paris to sign a petition demanding the removal of King Louis XVI.
- 1918 – Russian Revolution: Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II and his family at Yekaterinburg.
- 1936 – Nationalist rebels attempted a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
- 1955 – Disneyland (Sleeping Beauty Castle pictured), the only theme park to be designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney, opened in Anaheim, California, US during a televised ceremony.
- 1998 – Biologists reported in the scientific journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis.
- 2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crashed upon landing during rain at the Congonhas-São Paulo Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 199 people, the highest death toll of any aviation accident in Latin America and the highest death toll of any accident involving an Airbus A320 airliner in the world.