17 Julie

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

*1402 &ndash; Zhu Di, better kent bi his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne ower the Ming Dynasty o Cheenae.
*1429 &ndash; Hunder Years' War &ndash; Charles VII o Fraunce is crouned the Keeng o Fraunce in the Reims Cathedral efter a successfu campaign bi Joan o Arc
*1453 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Catherine II becomes tsar o Roushie upon the murther o Peter III o Roushie.
*1897 &ndash; The Klondike Gowd Rush stairts in the Yukon Territory, Northwastren Canadae.
*1918 &ndash; Tsar Nicholas II o Roushie an his immediate faimily an retainers are murthert bi Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev Hoose in Yekaterinburg, Roushie.
*1936 &ndash; Spaingie Ceevil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently electit leftist Popular Front govrenment o Spain stairts the ceevil war.
*1955 &ndash; The first Disneyland opens in Anaheim, Californie.
*1968 &ndash; 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 &ndash; King Mohammed Zahir Shah o Afghanistan is deposed bi his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy unnergangin ee surgery.
*1976 &ndash; 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 &ndash; History o East Timor: East Timor is annexed, an becomes the 27t province o Indonesie.
*1979 &ndash; Nicaraguan preses General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns an flees tae Miami, Florida.
*1981 &ndash; Queen Elizabeth II opens the Humber Brig naur Kingston upon Hull, Ingland.
*1981 &ndash; Twa walkways at the Regency Crown Center Hottle in Kansas City, Missouri collapse, killin 114 fowk.
*1989 &ndash; Poland restores diplomatic relations wi the Vatican Ceety.
*1994 &ndash; Brazil wins the FIFA Warld Cup for a 4t time, defeatin Italy on penalties.
*1996 &ndash; A Boeing 747 plane splodes an crashes naur Long Island, New York, killin 230 fowk.
*1998 &ndash; 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 &ndash; A plane crashes at Sao Paulo airport an bursts intae flames, killin 199 fowk, incluidin 12 on the groond.
*2011 &ndash; Japan wins the FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup, defeatin the Unitit States on penalties in Germany.
*2014 &ndash; Malaysia Airlines Flicht 17 is shot doon ower Eastern Ukraine, causin the daiths o aw 298 passengers an crew on buird.
*2018 &ndash; The European Union-Japan Economic Pairtnership Agreement is signit.
*2019 &ndash; The Kivu ebola ootbreak in the Democratic Republic o the Congo is declarit a public heal emergency bi the Warld Heal Organization.
*2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: Recordit COVID-19 cases in Brazil reach 2 million; recordit cases in Indie reach 1 million.
*2020 &ndash; NHS fundraiser Captain Tom is knichtit bi Elizabeth II in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle.

## Births

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

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

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