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July 17 is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
• 1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
• 1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China.
• 1453 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
• 1586 – A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
• 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
• 1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
• 1771 – Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, travelling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
• 1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
• 1794 – The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
• 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces.
• 1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills over 60 people.
• 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston. It was the first dental school in the U.S.
• 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• 1917 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
• 1918 – On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
• 1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost.
• 1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
• 1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
• 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad commences in modern-day Volgograd.
• 1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
• 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.
• 1945 – World War II: Potsdam Conference – at Potsdam, U.S. President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting would end on August 2.
• 1948 – The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
• 1955 – Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
• 1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1968 – A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
• 1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
• 1975 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
• 1976 – History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
• 1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
• 1979 – Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
• 1981 – The opening of the Humber Bridge by HM The Queen in England.
• 1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
• 1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
• 1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
• 1997 – The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
• 1998 – Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
• 1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
• 1999 – The popular kid's animated television show Spongebob Squarepants makes its official series premiere on Nickelodeon.
• 2002 – Apple Inc. premiers iCal at Macworld Expo, therefore the date that appears default on Dock
• 2007 – TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.
• 2009 – Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners.

Births

• 1487 – Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
• 1674 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
• 1698 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
• 1744 – Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814)
• 1745 – Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
• 1763 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman (d. 1848)
• 1797 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
• 1831 – Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
• 1839 – Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
• 1853 – Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (d. 1920)
• 1870 – Charles Davidson Dunbar, British military piper (d. 1939)
• 1888 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1889 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
• 1898 – George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985)
• 1898 – Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
• 1898 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991)
• 1899 – James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Marcel Dalio, French actor (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and NART team owner (d. 1994)
• 1901 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
• 1902 – Christina Stead, Australian novelist (d. 1983)
• 1911 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
• 1912 – Art Linkletter, Canadian television host
• 1912 – Erwin Bauer, German racing driver (d. 1958)
• 1913 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Phyllis Diller, American comedian
• 1917 – Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
• 1917 – Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee
• 1920 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sports commentator (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
• 1921 – František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
• 1923 – John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Jimmy Scott, American jazz singer
• 1926 – Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
• 1926 – Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
• 1928 – Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
• 1929 – Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
• 1932 – Johnny "Red" Kerr, American basketball player, coach, and longtime Chicago Bulls color commentator (d. 2009)
• 1932 – Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Tony Pithey, Former South African Cricketer (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Diahann Carroll, American actor
• 1935 – Peter Schickele, American author, composer and radio host
• 1935 – Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
• 1939 – Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
• 1939 – Andrée Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician
• 1939 – Spencer Davis, British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
• 1940 – Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
• 1941 – Daryle Lamonica, American football player
• 1941 – Achim Warmbold, German rally driver
• 1941 – Bob Taylor, Former English Cricketer
• 1942 – Gale Garnett, Canadian singer
• 1942 – Connie Hawkins, American basketball player
• 1942 – Don Kessinger, American baseball player
• 1942 – Peter Sissons, British newsreader
• 1944 – Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player
• 1944 – Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
• 1944 – Mark Burgess, Former New Zealand Cricketer
• 1945 – Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
• 1946 – Alun Armstrong, English actor
• 1947 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
• 1947 – Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
• 1948 – Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges) (d. 2009)
• 1948 – Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director
• 1948 – Jan Gangelhoff, American whistleblower (d. 2005)
• 1949 – Terence "Geezer" Butler, British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath)
• 1949 – Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster
• 1950 – Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
• 1950 – P.J. Soles, German-born American actress
• 1951 – Lucie Arnaz, American actress
• 1952 – David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician
• 1952 – Phoebe Laub, American singer and songwriter
• 1952 – Nicolette Larson, American singer (d. 1997)
• 1954 – Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
• 1954 – J. Michael Straczynski, American author
• 1955 – Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
• 1955 – Christopher Chappell, Former Canadian Cricketer
• 1956 – Robert Romanus, American actor
• 1956 – Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Fern Britton, British television presenter
• 1958 – Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
• 1960 – Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
• 1960 – Nancy Giles, American actress
• 1960 – Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor
• 1960 – Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager
• 1960 – Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
• 1960 – Kim Barnett, former English cricketer
• 1961 – Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor
• 1961 – Roy Pienaar, former South African cricketer
• 1962 – Bill Sage, American actor
• 1963 – Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
• 1963 – Letsie III, King of Lesotho
• 1963 – Regina Belle, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter
• 1963 – John Ventimiglia, American actor
• 1965 – Craig Morgan, American singer
• 1965 – Alex Winter, English film director
• 1965 – Santiago Segura, Spanish film director and actor
• 1966 – Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician
• 1966 – Lou Barlow, American alternative rock singer and musician (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh)
• 1966 – Guru, American rapper
• 1967 – Susan Ashton, Christian singer
• 1968 – Beth Littleford, American comedian
• 1968 – Bitty Schram, American actress
• 1968 – Andre Royo, American actor
• 1969 – Scott Johnson (cartoonist), American Cartoonist
• 1969 – F. Gary Gray, American music video director
• 1970 – Mandy Smith, English model and singer
• 1971 – Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player
• 1971 – Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
• 1971 – Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist
• 1972 – Donny Marshall, American basketball player
• 1972 – Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X, Redemption)
• 1972 – Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
• 1972 – Eric Williams, American basketball player
• 1973 – Eric Moulds, American football player
• 1973 – Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
• 1973 – Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor
• 1974 – Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
• 1975 – Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
• 1975 – Cécile de France, Belgian actress
• 1975 – Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
• 1975 – Konnie Huq, English television presenter
• 1975 – Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician
• 1975 – Gino D'Acampo, Italian celebrity chef
• 1975 – Andre Adams, Former New Zealand Cricketer
• 1975 – Darude, Finnish trance DJ
• 1976 – Luke Bryan, American musician
• 1976 – Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress
• 1976 – Eric Winter, American actor
• 1976 – Matthew Holmes, Australian actor
• 1977 – Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
• 1977 – Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
• 1977 – Tiffany Taylor, American model
• 1977 – Leif Hoste, Belgian cyclist
• 1978 – Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
• 1978 – Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1978 – Émilie Simon, French singer
• 1978 – Katharine Towne, American actress
• 1978 – Noah Lennox, American musician
• 1979 – Mike Vogel, American actor
• 1980 – Ryan Miller, American hockey player
• 1980 – Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer
• 1981 – Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan track and field athlete
• 1982 – Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
• 1982 – Omari Banks, West Indian Cricketer
• 1983 – Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
• 1983 – Sarah Jones, American actress
• 1983 – Brooke Kinsella, British actress
• 1983 – Adam Lind, American baseball player
• 1984 – Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
• 1984 – Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
• 1985 – Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
• 1985 – Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
• 1986 – Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
• 1987 – Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player
• 1987 – Jan Charouz, Czech racing driver
• 1987 – Moussa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
• 1988 – Summer Bishil, American actress
• 1989 – Marko Todorović, Swiss swimmer
• 1998 – Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, Spanish royal

Deaths

• 521 – Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
• 656 – Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
• 924 – King Edward the Elder of England
• 1070 – Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
• 1453 – Dmitry Shemyaka, Grand Prince of Moscow 1445, 1446-1447, poisoned in Veliky Novgorod by Vasily Tyomny's agents
• 1453 – John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
• 1531 – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
• 1566 – Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
• 1571 – Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
• 1588 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
• 1645 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
• 1704 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
• 1709 – Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
• 1790 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1791 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
• 1793 – Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768)
• 1794 – John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
• 1845 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
• 1878 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
• 1879 – Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
• 1881 – Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
• 1885 – Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
• 1887 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 – Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 – Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
• 1894 – Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
• 1907 – Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
• 1912 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
• 1918 – Family of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)

• Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna (b. 1872)
• Grand Duchess Olga (b. 1895)
• Grand Duchess Tatiana (b. 1897)
• Grand Duchess Maria (b. 1899)
• Grand Duchess Anastasia (b. 1901)
• Tsarevich Alexei (b. 1904)

• 1928 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (b. 1842)
• 1935 – George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
• 1944 – William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
• 1945 – Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1946 – General Dragoljub Mihailović, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (b. 1893)
• 1950 – Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
• 1959 – Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
• 1959 – Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
• 1961 – Ty Cobb, baseball player (b. 1886)
• 1967 – John Coltrane, American musician (b. 1926)
• 1974 – Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b. 1910)
• 1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
• 1980 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
• 1987 – Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
• 1988 – Frank Goodish, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
• 1989 – Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
• 1995 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (b. 1938)
• 2001 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
• 2003 – David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

• South Korea – Constitution Day.
• Kyoto, Japan – Gion Matsuri.
• World Day for International Justice
• Saint Alexius, confessor
• Saint Cynllo
• Saint Ennodius, bishop of Pavia
• Saint Kenelm
• Saint Marcellina, virgin
• Saint Piatus, bishop of Tournai Paris
• The Russian Royal Family
• Saint Speratus and companions 'the Scillitan Martyrs'

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

All animals are equal — but some animals are more equal than others. ~ Animal Farm by George Orwell

• selected by Nanobug

2004

Of all the creatures that creep, swim or fly,
Peopling the earth, waters and the sky,
From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan,
I really think, the greatest fool is man.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ~

• selected by Kalki

2005

Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. ~ Cory Doctorow (born 17 July 1971)

• author proposed by MosheZadka; quote proposed by Kalki

2006

Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul;
The mind's the standard of the man.
~ Isaac Watts ~ (born 17 July 1674)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence. ~ Isaac Watts

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil;
In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish;
For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth;
Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself. ~ J. Michael Straczynski

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup — in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year. ~ Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory was born that day.

• 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (OK; markup needs work)
• 1 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC) this uses obscure terms without much context to go on; I have added a few Cory Doctorow quotes below, that I think would be better.
• 1 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don't have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth. ~ Cory Doctorow

• 2 Kalki 21:47, 16 July 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I'd seen how Imagineering worked when they were on their own, building prototypes and conceptual mockups — I knew that the real bottleneck was the constant review and revisions, the ever-fluctuating groupmind consensus of the ad-hoc that commissioned their work. ~ Cory Doctorow

• 2 Kalki 21:45, 16 July 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained—tending bar, mopping toilets —commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.

• 2 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC) this also uses obscure terms, as the first suggestion for Doctorow did, but fuller context is implied a bit more clearly.
• 1 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Of all the people who failed to buy one of my books today, the vast majority did so because they never heard of them, not because they got a free digital copy from the Internet. ~ Cory Doctorow

• 3 Kalki 21:45, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
~ Isaac Watts ~ (born 17 July 1674)

• 2 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small.
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
~ Isaac Watts ~

• 2 Kalki 22:00, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Never give up! it is wiser and better
Always to hope, than once to despair. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

• 3 Zarbon 12:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 22:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC) But would extend this to follow with:
  Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,
  And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

“Let byegones be byegones,”—they foolishly say,
And bid me be wise and forget them;
But old recollections are active to-day,
And I can do nought but regret them. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

• 3 Zarbon 12:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 22:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Your assumption, and the truth, dine at totally separate tables. ~ J. Michael Straczynski

• 3 Zarbon 12:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 22:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC) I am inclined to believe such an expression predates this use of it.
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. ~ Adam Smith, he died on July 17, 1790

• —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Blueshadow (talk • contribs) May 13, 2007 at 22:16 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 22:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3; would prefer it, however, for June 16 (Smith's birthdate). InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth,
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume:
The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it:
The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

• 3 Kalki 22:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 05:06, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

• 3 Kalki 19:41, 14 July 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 18:16, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

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Articles detailing events that are related to July 17. This may include the release of games or systems, the founding of a video game related company or some other important event.

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Game releases

• 1997
  • Clock Tower: The First Fear was released on the PlayStation 2 in Japan

From Familypedia

July 17 is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
• 1048 - Damasus II appointed Pope.
• 1203 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
• 1453 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon - The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony
• 1762 - Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the accidental murder of Peter III of Russia.
• 1771 - Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
• 1791 - Massacre at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution. 1200-1500 people were killed, including women and children.
• 1794 - The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
• 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort to British forces.
• 1816 - The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal.
• 1821 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States
• 1841 - The first issue of the magazine Punch is published in London
• 1856 - The Great Train Wreck of 1856, occurs in Fort Washington killing over 60 people.
• 1858 - Salving of the Lutine bell. The bell is subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London.
• 1897 - Klondike gold rush begins when first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle.
• 1898 - Spanish-American War: Battle of Santiago Bay - Troops under United States General William R. Shafter take the city of Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish.
• 1899 - NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• 1917 - King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
• 1918 - By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
• 1933 - After successfully crossing the Atlantic ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
• 1936 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war.
• 1941 - Joe DiMaggio's baseball hitting streak ends at 56 games, by Cleveland Indian pitchers, Al Smith & Jim Bagby.
• 1944 - Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, killing 320.
• 1944 - World War II: The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax, Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection.
• 1944 - Napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France
• 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference - At Potsdam, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2.
• 1951 - Western New England College in Springfield is chartered.
• 1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim
• 1962 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1964 - British speed pioneer Sir Donald Campbell sets a new land speed world record of 429mph in his car, Bluebird.
• 1968 - The date of the July 17 Revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown and the Ba'ath Party installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
• 1973 - King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
• 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
• 1976 - History of East Timor: East Timor was annexed, and became the 27th province of Indonesia.
• 1976 - The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team
• 1979 - Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami.
• 1981 - Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City collapse into a crowded atrium lobby during a "tea dance," killing 114.
• 1987 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time at 2510.04.
• 1989 - First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
• 1995 - The Midwestern heat wave in the United States reaches its peak. Chicago and Milwaukee, among other cities, set all-time high temperature records. The heat claims over 400 lives on this day alone.
• 1995 - The Nasdaq stock index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
• 1996 - Off the coast of Long Island, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
• 1997 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
• 1997 - Daniel Komen breaks the 2 mile world record in a time of 7:58.61.
• 1998 - In St. Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel exactly 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks.
• 1998 - Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
• 1998 - Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.
• 2007 - TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 crashed upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's worst aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.

Births

• 1487 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
• 1674 - Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
• 1698 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
• 1744 - Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814)
• 1745 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
• 1797 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
• 1831 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
• 1839 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
• 1888 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1898 - George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985)
• 1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
• 1893 - Marvin Pierce, women's magazine publisher (d. 1969)
• 1898 - Osmond Borradaile, WW1 veteran and Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
• 1899 - James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1900 - Marcel Dalio, French actor (d. 1983)
• 1901 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
• 1902 - Christina Stead, Australian novelist (d. 1983)
• 1911 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
• 1913 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
• 1912 - Art Linkletter, Canadian television host
• 1917 - Phyllis Diller, American comedian
• 1917 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
• 1917 - Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
• 1918 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee
• 1920 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sports commentator (d. 2002)
• 1920 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
• 1921 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
• 1926 - Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
• 1928 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
• 1929 - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
• 1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actor
• 1935 - Peter Schickele, American composer, author, and radio host
• 1935 - Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
• 1939 - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
• 1939 - Andrée Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician
• 1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
• 1941 - Spencer Davis, British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
• 1941 - Jürgen Flimm, German theatre director and manager
• 1941 - Daryle Lamonica, American football player
• 1942 - Don Kessinger, baseball player
• 1942 - Peter Sissons, British newsreader
• 1944 - Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player
• 1944 - Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
• 1945 - Alexander
• 1946 - Alun Armstrong, English actor
• 1947 - Camilla
• 1947 - Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
• 1948 - Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges)
• 1948 - Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director
• 1949 - Terence "Geezer" Butler, British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath)
• 1949 - John Wetton, British musician (King Crimson)
• 1949 - Snyder Rini, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands for eight days
• 1949 - Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster
• 1951 - Lucie Arnaz, American actress
• 1950 - Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
• 1950 - P.J. Soles, German-born American actress
• 1952 - David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician
• 1952 - Phoebe Snow, singer and songwriter
• 1952 - Nicolette Larson, American singer (d. 1997)
• 1954 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
• 1954 - J. Michael Straczynski, American author
• 1955 - Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
• 1956 - Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 - Fern Britton, British television presenter
• 1958 - Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
• 1960 - Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
• 1960 - Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor
• 1960 - Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager
• 1963 - Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
• 1963 - Letsie III, King of Lesotho
• 1965 - Craig Morgan, American singer
• 1965 - Alex Winter, English film director
• 1965 - Santiago Segura, Spanish film director and actor
• 1966 - Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician
• 1968 - Bitty Schram, American actress
• 1968 - John Ventimiglia, American actor
• 1971 - Jarrett Cordes, American hip-hip artist (P.M. Dawn)
• 1971 - Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
• 1972 - Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X and formerly Redemption)
• 1972 - Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
• 1973 - Eric Moulds, American football player
• 1973 - Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
• 1973 - Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor
• 1974 - Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
• 1975 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter
• 1975 - Cécile de France, Belgian actress
• 1975 - Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
• 1975 - Terence Tao, Australian Chinese mathematician
• 1976 - Gino D'Acampo, Italian celebrity chef
• 1976 - Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress
• 1977 - M.I.A., British rapper
• 1977 - Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
• 1978 - Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
• 1978 - Katharine Towne, American actress
• 1979 - Mike Vogel, American actor
• 1980 - Ryan Miller, NHL hockey player
• 1980 - Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer
• 1980 - Craig Hughes, minor Welsh rugby player
• 1981 - Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer
• 1982 - Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
• 1983 - Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
• 1983 - Adam Lind, American baseball player
• 1984 - Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
• 1985 - Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
• 1985 - Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
• 1986 - Dana, Korean singer/dancer/actress (TSZX)
• 1988 - Kat DeLuna, Latina-American singer
• 1989 - Marko Todorović, Swiss swimmer
• 1992 - Taavi Rand, Estonian ice skater
• 1998 - Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, Spanish royal

Deaths

• 521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
• 656 - Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
• 924 - King Edward the Elder of England
• 1070 - Baldwin VI (b. 1030)
• 1105 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (b. 1040)
• 1453 - John Talbot, English military leader
• 1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
• 1566 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
• 1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
• 1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
• 1645 - Robert Carr, Scottish politician
• 1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
• 1709 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
• 1790 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
• 1793 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768)
• 1794 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
• 1845 - Charles Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
• 1878 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
• 1881 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
• 1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
• 1887 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
• 1894 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
• 1912 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
• 1917 - Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
• 1918 (N.S.) - Family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)
  • Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna (b. 1872)
  • Grand Duchess Olga (b. 1895)
  • Grand Duchess Tatiana (b. 1897)
  • Grand Duchess Maria (b. 1899)
  • Grand Duchess Anastasia (b. 1901)
  • Tsarevich Alexei (b. 1904)
• 1928 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (b. 1842)
• 1935 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
• 1944 - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
• 1945 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1946 - General Dragoljub Mihailović, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (b. 1893)
• 1950 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
• 1959 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
• 1959 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
• 1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball player (b. 1886)
• 1967 - John Coltrane, American musician (b. 1926)
• 1974 - Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b. 1910)
• 1975 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
• 1980 - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
• 1987 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
• 1988 - Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
• 1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
• 1996 - Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (b. 1938)
• 2001 - Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
• 2003 - David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
• 2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
• 2004 - Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
• 2005 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
• 2005 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b. 1913)
• 2005 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 2005 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
• 2006 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2006 - Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
• 2007 - Júlio Redecker, Brazilian Politician (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances

• South Korea - Constitution Day.
• Kyoto, Japan - Gion Matsuri.

Liturgical feasts

• Saint Alexius, confessor
• Saints Andrew and Benedict, martyrs Hungary
• Holy Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne, martyrs
• Saint Cynllo
• Saint Ennodius, bishop of Pavia
• Saint Fredegaudus, bishop, confessor Liège
• Saint Kenelmus, king, martyr England
• Saint Marcellina, virgin
• Translation of Saint Marina virgin, martyr Venice
• Saints Quiricus and Julitta, martyrs Augsburg
• Saint Piatus, bishop of Tournai Paris
• The Russian Royal Family
• Saint Speratus and companions 'the Sicilian Martyrs'Paderborn, Verdun, France
• Saint Theodosius, bishop of Auxerre Auxerre

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada