What Happened On Jul 17 Events

The Siege of Constantinople (1203) was a Crusader siege of the capital of the Byzantine Empire. To take the city by force, the Crusaders first needed to cross the Bosphorus. About 200 ...

The Yongle Emperor (Traditional Chinese: 永樂; Simplified Chinese: 永乐; pinyin: Yǒnglè; Wade-Giles: Yung-lo; IPA: [jʊ̀ŋlɤ̂]) (May 2, 1360 – August 12, 1424), born Zhu Di (Chu Ti), was the th...

At the Wissahickon station another train, the Aramingo, engineered by William Vanstavoren, waited for the excursion to pass on the single track line that had opened one year and 15 days e...

Description: Union and Confederate troops had frequently skirmished in the vicinity of Honey Springs Depot. The Union commander in the area, Maj. Gen. James G. Blunt, correctly surmised t...

Description: A Union column, consisting of the VI Corps and elements of the XIX Corps under Maj. Gen. Horatio Wright, pursued Early’s army as it withdrew from the environs of Washington, ...

Unemployed, Hickok passed his time gambling, drinking, and occasionally working as a hunting guide. He quickly became bored and was considering taking work at the nearby Fort Hays as an a...

Finally, on July 17 in Cleveland, in a night game in front of 67,468 fans, DiMaggio went hitless against Cleveland pitchers Al Smith and Jim Bagby, Jr. In his first three at-bats, DiMaggi...

The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle of World War II between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle too...

Victory Through Air Power is a 1942 book by Alexander P. de Seversky, and a 1943 Walt Disney Technicolor animated feature film based on the book. de Seversky appeared in the film which wa...

While awaiting results of hospital tests on his prior ankle injury from junior college, Robinson boarded an Army bus with a fellow black officer's wife; although the Army had commissioned...

The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion that occurred on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States. Munitions detonat...

A Hatful of Rain is a 1957 dramatic film. It stars Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan and Henry Silva. The movie was adapted by Michael V. Gazzo, Alfred Hayes ...

My father was ill that morning, so my mother set out alone in the Land Rover, accompanied by her two Dalmatians. She spent the morning crawling along the slope of the nearby gorge but fou...

On July 17, 1973, Mohammed Daoud Khan seized power from his cousin (and brother-in-law) King Zahir with the assistance of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (the Parcham party w...

The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the ri...

Ronald Reagan, the 33rd Governor of California, announced his candidacy for President of the United States in New York City on November 13, 1979. On July 17, 1980, he became the nominee o...

On July 17, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, held a videotaped tea-dance party in their atrium lobby. With many party-goers standing and dancing on the suspended wa...

Screaming for Vengeance is the eighth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was recorded at Ibiza Sound Studios, Ibiza, Spain and mixed at Beejay Recording Studios and...

RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is murdered brutally...

It was when Gretzky was celebrity judge on Dance Fever that he met his future wife, American actress Janet Jones. According to Wayne, Janet does not recall him being on the show. They met...

The Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour was a famed joint, co-headlining concert tour by the American rock bands Guns N' Roses and Metallica during 1992. It took place in the middle of G...

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is the 1992 sequel to the 1989 film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Directed by Randal Kleiser and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars Rick Moranis, Marcia...

Hercules searches for the Golden Fleece.

The United States staged a hugely successful 15th FIFA World Cup that became the best attended in history and ended with Brazil celebrating their first world title since 1970. Forwards Ro...

On the day of the crash the airplane departed Athens, Greece, as TWA Flight 881, and arrived at the gate at JFK about 4:38 PM. Upon arrival at JFK, there was a crew change, and the aircra...

The 1997 Open Championship was the 126th Open Championship held from July 17-20, 1997 at the Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Justin Leonard won his first major championship by t...

Celexa is an antidepressant in a group of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). It works by restoring the balance of serotonin, a natural occuring substance found ...

Mr. Mackey punishes the boys by forcing them to join the "Getting Gay With Kids" choir. The choir is going to Costa Rica to help save the rainforest. While on a tour of the rainforest the...

American rookie Ben Curtis won the 132nd Open Championship after a rollercoaster final round at Royal St George's. Curtis, competing in his first-ever major, won by one stroke after sh...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Red Sox were awaiting word yesterday from Major League Baseball disciplinarian Bob Watson on the fate of slugger David Ortiz in the aftermath of Friday night's ejec...

Within moments of arriving at Sundance, Eric lands a lunch with studio big wig--and gets an offer for Vince that might be too good to refuse. Ari advises him to play it safe, and Vince wa...

Doug Mirabelli knew he and the Red Sox were in trouble long before Al Leiter, the 11th starting pitcher used by the Yankees this season, a major league high, left the mound in the seventh...

With the 36,436 at Fenway Park standing in anticipation of a mammoth home run from one of their own Bash Brothers, David Ortiz or Manny Ramírez, they were instead treated to a medium-dept...

SEATTLE -- Jay Gibbons has grown tired of talking about his tumultuous season that has seen him flirt with a sub-.200 average and essentially become a $5 million part-time player. When...

As much as he wanted to get back to the big leagues, Kansas City pitcher Leo Nuñez might have given some thought to ignoring the phone call informing him he was coming to Boston to face t...

TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ 3054) was an Airbus A320 airliner, registration PR-MBK, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Porto Alegre and São Paulo, Brazil, which c...

Thriller is a viral video featuring the dancing inmates of a high security penitentiary. In 2007, the inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum sec...

A recap of the Orioles' 6-5 loss to the Tigers last night: Six innings, no win Garrett Olson lasted six innings for the first time since June 5, but he left the game with the Tigers...

Pádraig Harrington successfully defended his Open Championship title for his second Open title. Harrington shot four under on the back nine to pull away from Ian Poulter and Greg Norman. ...

TORONTO - The Red Sox gave Clay Buchholz a start last night to reward him, because they want him to know, through their actions, he is an important part of the team’s near and distant fut...

CHICAGO - -The Orioles started a fresh half of baseball at U.S. Cellular Field on Friday night, but the same old problems from the past three-plus months followed them. Rookie starter ...

A retired southern Illinois judge says he wants to be a U.S. senator. Sixty-two-year-old Don Lowery of Dixon Springs in Pope County says he'll be running as a Republican for the Senate...

On a perfect summer night, my wife and I and a bunch of friends saw Elton John and Billy Joel in concert at Wrigley Field. They played for over 3.5 hours, alternating between singing sol...

Walter Cronkite, who pioneered and then mastered the role of television news anchorman with such plain-spoken grace that he was called the most trusted man in America, died Friday at his ...

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- One of Iran's most powerful clerics, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has called on the Iranian government to release those people arrested following last month's dispu...

"A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading." —Kolakowski

Meir Amit (Hebrew: מאיר עמית‎, 17 March 1921 – 17 July 2009) was an Israeli politician and general. He served as Director of the Mossad from 1963 to 1968 before entering politics and hold...

ARLINGTON, TEXAS — During the All-Star break, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire and his coaches retreated to a lake near Brainerd, readying themselves mentally for what they hope is another ex...

Rain was falling harder as the Yankees came to bat in the seventh inning Friday night and the fans who weren't flipping open umbrellas or donning ponchos were leaving their seats to find ...

On Friday night, righthanded swinger Nick Stavinoha pounded a 412-foot pinch-hit homer off the facade of the third deck at Busch Stadium, driving in two runs in the St. Louis Cardinals' 6...