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July 17 is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 167 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 180 – ...
July 2, 1944 (Sunday) The Battle of Noemfoor began between Allied and Japanese forces in Netherlands New Guinea. The day after his telephone outburst, Gerd von Rundstedt was sacked as Oberbefehlshaber West and replaced by Günther von Kluge. German submarine U-543 was sunk southwest of Tenerife by a Grumman TBF Avenger.
The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion of the ship SS E. A. Bryan on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States. Munitions being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations detonated, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring at least 390 ...
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [ 2 ][ 3 ] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
July 17, 2024 (Wednesday) edit. history. watch. Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war. Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. At least 42 Palestinians are killed and more than 70 others are injured in Israeli strikes on a United Nations -run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp and on a designated "safe zone" in al-Mawasi, Rafah.
Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year.In French, it is called the Fête nationale française (French: [fɛt nɑsjɔnal fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; ' French National Celebration '); legally it is known as le 14 juillet (French: [lə katɔʁz(ə) ʒɥijɛ]; ' the 14th of July ').
0. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TW800/TWA800) was a scheduled international passenger flight from New York (John F. Kennedy International Airport) to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747-100 serving the flight exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean ...
105–107 captured. The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille. After four hours of fighting and 94 deaths the ...