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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2009-01-6
Births
1487-07-17 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
1674-07-17 - Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
1698-07-17 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
1744-07-17 - Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814)
1745-07-17 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
1797-07-17 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
1831-07-17 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
1839-07-17 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
1888-07-17 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1889-07-17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
1893-07-17 - Marvin Pierce, Women's magazine publisher (d. 1969)
1899-07-17 - James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
1901-07-17 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
1902-07-17 - Christina Stead, Australian novelist (d. 1983)
1911-07-17 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
1913-07-17 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
1912-07-17 - Art Linkletter, Canadian television host
1917-07-17 - Phyllis Diller, American comedian
1917-07-17 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
1917-07-17 - Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
1918-07-17 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
1920-07-17 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee
1920-07-17 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sports commentator (d. 2002)
1920-07-17 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
1921-07-17 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
1928-07-17 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
1929-07-17 - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
1935-07-17 - Diahann Carroll, American actor
1935-07-17 - Peter Schickele, American composer, author, and radio host
1935-07-17 - Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
1941-07-17 - Spencer Davis, British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
1941-07-17 - Jürgen Flimm, German theatre director and manager
1941-07-17 - Daryle Lamonica, American football player
1942-07-17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
1942-07-17 - Don Kessinger, baseball player
1944-07-17 - Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player
1944-07-17 - Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
1945-07-17 - Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
1947-07-17 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
1948-07-17 - Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges)
1949-07-17 - Terence "Geezer" Butler, British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath)
1949-07-17 - John Wetton, British musician (King Crimson)
1949-07-17 - Snyder Rini, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands for eight days
1949-07-17 - Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster
1951-07-17 - Lucie Arnaz, American actress
1952-07-17 - David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician
1952-07-17 - Phoebe Snow, singer and songwriter
1952-07-17 - Nicolette Larson, American singer (d. 1997)
1954-07-17 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
1954-07-17 - J. Michael Straczynski, American author
1955-07-17 - Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
1956-07-17 - Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player
1957-07-17 - Fern Britton, British television presenter
1958-07-17 - Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
1960-07-17 - Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
1960-07-17 - Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager
1963-07-17 - Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
1963-07-17 - Letsie III, King of Lesotho
1965-07-17 - Craig Morgan, American singer
1968-07-17 - Bitty Schram, American actress
1971-07-17 - Jarrett Cordes, American hip-hip artist (P.M. Dawn)
1971-07-17 - Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
1972-07-17 - Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
1973-07-17 - Eric Moulds, American football player
1973-07-17 - Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
1975-07-17 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter
1975-07-17 - Cécile de France, Belgian actress
1975-07-17 - Terence Tao, Australian Chinese mathematician
1977-07-17 - M.I.A., British rapper
1977-07-17 - Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
1977-07-17 - Ssegujja Eric,Ugandan community development Worker.
1978-07-17 - Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
1980-07-17 - Ryan Miller, American hockey player
1980-07-17 - Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer
1982-07-17 - Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
1983-07-17 - Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
1985-07-17 - Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
1990-07-17 - Sofie Oosterwaal, Dutch model
Bizarre
2006-07-17 - Peach Ice Cream Day
2006-07-17 - Yellow Pig Day
2007-07-17 - Peach Ice Cream Day
2007-07-17 - Yellow Pig Day
Deaths
1070-07-17 - Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
1086-07-17 - King Canute IV of Denmark
1105-07-17 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (b. 1040)
1453-07-17 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1531-07-17 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1566-07-17 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
1571-07-17 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588-07-17 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1645-07-17 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1704-07-17 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
1709-07-17 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
1790-07-17 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1791-07-17 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
1793-07-17 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768)
1794-07-17 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1845-07-17 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1878-07-17 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
1881-07-17 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1885-07-17 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1887-07-17 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
1894-07-17 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist, (b. 1810)
1894-07-17 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
1912-07-17 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
1917-07-17 - Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
1928-07-17 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (b. 1842)
1935-07-17 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
1944-07-17 - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
1945-07-17 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
1946-07-17 - General Dragoljub Mihailović, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (b. 1893)
1950-07-17 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
1959-07-17 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
1959-07-17 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
1961-07-17 - Ty Cobb, baseball player (b. 1886)
1967-07-17 - John Coltrane, American musician (b. 1926)
1974-07-17 - Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b.1910)
1975-07-17 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
1980-07-17 - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
1987-07-17 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1988-07-17 - Bruiser Brody, Professional wrestler (b. 1946)
1995-07-17 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
1996-07-17 - Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (b. 1938)
2001-07-17 - Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
2003-07-17 - David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
2003-07-17 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2004-07-17 - Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
2005-07-17 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
2005-07-17 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
2005-07-17 - Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
2006-07-17 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
2006-07-17 - Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
Declared
2007-07-17 - South Korea - Constitution Day.
Events
1989-07-17 - First flight of the B2 Stealth Bomber.
1995-07-17 - The Nasdaq stock index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
1996-07-17 - Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1997-07-17 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
1998-07-17 - In St. Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks.
1998-07-17 - 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.
1998-07-17 - Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.
2004-07-17 - Ninety children die in a fire at a private school in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India.
1048-07-17 - Damasus II appointed Pope.
1203-07-17 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
1453-07-17 - 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
1762-07-17 - Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the accidental murder of Peter III of Russia.
1771-07-17 - Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
1791-07-17 - Massacre at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution. 1200-1500 people were killed, including women and children.
1815-07-17 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces.
1816-07-17 - The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal.
1821-07-17 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States
1841-07-17 - The first issue of the magazine Punch is published in London
1858-07-17 - Salving of the Lutine bell. The bell is subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London.
1897-07-17 - Klondike gold rush begins when first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle, Washington.
1898-07-17 - 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.
1899-07-17 - NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
1917-07-17 - 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.
1918-07-17 - 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.
1933-07-17 - After successfully crossing the Atlantic ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
1936-07-17 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war.
1941-07-17 - Joe DiMaggio's baseball hitting streak ends at 56 games, by Cleveland Indian pitchers, Al Smith & Jim Bagby.
1944-07-17 - Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
1944-07-17 - World War II: The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax, Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection.
1944-07-17 - Napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France
1945-07-17 - 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.
1955-07-17 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1962-07-17 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
1964-07-17 - British speed pioneer Sir Donald Campbell sets a new land speed world record of 429mph in his car, Bluebird.
1975-07-17 - 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.
1976-07-17 - History of East Timor: East Timor was annexed, and became the 27th province of Indonesia.
1976-07-17 - The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team
1976-07-17 - Viking 1 successfully lands on Mars.
1979-07-17 - Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami.
1981-07-17 - Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby during a "tea dance," killing 114.
1987-07-17 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time at 2510.04.
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