# 17 Julie

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| Juin | **Days in Julie** | August |
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The **17t o Julie** is the 198t day o the year (199t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 167 days ti come.

## Events

1918: Tomb o Nicholas II o Roushie an his faimily
1955: Disneyland in Californie
1976: Olympic Stadium in Montreal
1981: Humber Brig
* 1402 – Zhu Di, better kent bi his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne ower the Ming Dynasty o Cheenae.
* 1429 – Hunder Years' War – Charles VII o Fraunce is crouned the Keeng o Fraunce in the Reims Cathedral efter a successfu campaign bi Joan o Arc
* 1453 – Battle o Castillon: The last battle o Hunder Years' War, the French unner Jean Bureau defeat the Inglis unner the Earl o Shrewsbury, who is killt in the battle in Gascony.
* 1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar o Roushie upon the murther o Peter III o Roushie.
* 1897 – The Klondike Gowd Rush stairts in the Yukon Territory, Northwastren Canadae.
* 1918 – Tsar Nicholas II o Roushie an his immediate faimily an retainers are murthert bi Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev Hoose in Yekaterinburg, Roushie.
* 1936 – Spaingie Ceevil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently electit leftist Popular Front govrenment o Spain stairts the ceevil war.
* 1955 – The first Disneyland opens in Anaheim, Californie.
* 1968 – A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is owerthrown an the Ba'ath Pairty is installed as the govrenin pouer in Iraq wi Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi Preses.
* 1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah o Afghanistan is deposed bi his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy unnergangin ee surgery.
* 1976 – The 1976 Simmer Olympics in Montreal, Canadae, stairt. 25 African kintras boycott the gemmes ower the New Zealand rugby team's tour o Sooth Africae.
* 1976 – History o East Timor: East Timor is annexed, an becomes the 27t province o Indonesie.
* 1979 – Nicaraguan preses General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns an flees tae Miami, Florida.
* 1981 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the Humber Brig naur Kingston upon Hull, Ingland.
* 1981 – Twa walkways at the Regency Crown Center Hottle in Kansas City, Missouri collapse, killin 114 fowk.
* 1989 – Poland restores diplomatic relations wi the Vatican Ceety.
* 1994 – Brazil wins the FIFA Warld Cup for a 4t time, defeatin Italy on penalties.
* 1996 – A Boeing 747 plane splodes an crashes naur Long Island, New York, killin 230 fowk.
* 1998 – Papua New Guinea yirdquauk: A tsunami triggered bi an unnersea yirdquauk destroys 10 veelages in Papua New Guinea killin an estimatit 3,183, leavin 2,000 mair unaccoontit for an thoosands mair homeless.
* 2007 – A plane crashes at Sao Paulo airport an bursts intae flames, killin 199 fowk, incluidin 12 on the groond.
* 2011 – Japan wins the FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup, defeatin the Unitit States on penalties in Germany.
* 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flicht 17 is shot doon ower Eastern Ukraine, causin the daiths o aw 298 passengers an crew on buird.
* 2018 – The European Union-Japan Economic Pairtnership Agreement is signit.
* 2019 – The Kivu ebola ootbreak in the Democratic Republic o the Congo is declarit a public heal emergency bi the Warld Heal Organization.
* 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Recordit COVID-19 cases in Brazil reach 2 million; recordit cases in Indie reach 1 million.
* 2020 – NHS fundraiser Captain Tom is knichtit bi Elizabeth II in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle.

## Births

Camilla, Duchess o Rothesay
Angela Merkel
* 1744 – Elbridge Gerry, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1814)
* 1777 – Thomas Allan, Scots meeneralogist (d. 1833)
* 1822 – Daniel Kinnear Clark, Scots railwey ingineer (d. 1896)
* 1888 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer (d. 1970)
* 1894 – Georges Lemaitre, Belgian priest an astronomer (d. 1966)
* 1899 – James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
* 1911 – Lionel Ferbos, American trumpeter (d. 2014)
* 1917 – Kenan Evren, 7t Preses o Turkey (d. 2015)
* 1917 – Phyllis Diller, American actress an comedienne (d. 2012)
* 1920 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spainyie businessman, 7t Preses o the Internaitional Olympic Committee (d. 2010)
* 1927 – Prosper Ego, Dutch activist an writer (d. 2015)
* 1935 – Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
* 1939 – Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader o Iran
* 1944 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian fitbawer (d. 2016)
* 1946 – Peter Cormack, Scots fitbawer
* 1947 – Camilla, Duchess o Rothesay
* 1952 – David Hasselhoff, American actor
* 1954 – Angela Merkel, German politeecian, 8t Federal Chancellor o Germany
* 1961 – António Costa, Portuguese politeecian, Prime meenister o Portugal
* 1963 – King Letsie III o Lesotho
* 1967 – Robert Thornton, Scots dairts player
* 1970 – Gavin McInnes, Inglis-Canadian comedian, actor, sangster an far-richt activist
* 1972 – Jaap Stam, Dutch fitbawer
* 1976 – Anders Svensson, Swadish fitbawer

## Daiths

* 924 – Edward the Elder, King o Ingland (b. 877)
* 1588 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman airchitect an ingineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque an Süleymaniye Mosque (b. 1489)
* 1762 – Tsar Peter III o Roushie (b. 1728)
* 1790 – Adam Smith, Scots economist an philosopher (b. 1723)
* 1812 – John Broadwood, Scots pianae manufacturer (b. 1732)
* 1912 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
* 1918 – Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina o Roushie (b. 1872)
* 1918 – Nicholas II o Roushie (b. 1868)
* 1918 – Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich o Roushie (b. 1904)
* 1918 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna o Roushie (b. 1901)
* 1923 – W. P. Ker, Scots leeterar scholart an essayist (b. 1855)
* 1948 – Joseph Westwood, Scots politeecian (b. 1884)
* 1959 – Billie Holiday, American sangster (b. 1915)
* 1995 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine racin driver (b. 1911)
* 2005 – Edward Heath, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1916)
* 2008 – George Niven, Scots fitbawer (b. 1929)
* 2009 – Walter Cronkite, American jurnalist (b. 1916)
* 2013 – David White, Scots fitbawer (b. 1933)
* 2015 – Jules Bianchi, French racin driver (b. 1989)
* 2019 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (b. 1925)
* 2020 – J. I. Packer, Breetish-Canadian theologian (b. 1926)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Slovakie)
* Constitution Day (Sooth Korea)
* Warld Day for Internaitional Juistice
* Warld Emoji Day