| 1453 |
|
France defeats England at Castillon, France, ending the Hundred Years’ War. |
| 1762 |
|
Peter III of Russia is murdered and his wife, Catherine II, takes the throne. |
| 1785 |
|
France limits the importation of goods from Britain. |
| 1791 |
|
National Guard troops open fire on a crowd of demonstrators in Paris. |
| 1799 |
|
Ottoman forces, supported by the British, capture Aboukir, Egypt from the French. |
| 1801 |
|
The U.S. fleet arrives in Tripoli. |
| 1815 |
|
Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British at Rochefort, France. |
| 1821 |
|
Andrew Jackson becomes the governor of Florida. |
| 1864 |
|
Confederate President Jefferson Davis replaces General Joseph E. Johnston with General John Bell Hood in hopes of defeating Union General William T. Sherman outside Atlanta. |
| 1898 |
|
U.S. troops under General William R. Shafter take Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. |
| 1944 |
|
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel is wounded when an Allied fighter strafes his staff car in France. |
| 1946 |
|
Chinese communists attack the Nationalist army on the Yangtze River. |
| 1960 |
|
American pilot Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court. |
| 1966 |
|
Ho Chi Minh orders a partial mobilization of North Vietnam to defend against American airstrikes. |
| 1987 |
|
Lt. Col. Oliver North and Rear Adm. John Poindexter begin testifying to Congress regarding the Iran-Contra scandal. |
|
Born on July 17 |
| 1674 |
|
Isaac Watts, English minister and hymn writer. |
| 1763 |
|
John Jacob Astor, American fur trader and entrepreneur. |
| 1888 |
|
S.Y. Agnon, Israeli writer (The Day Before Yesterday). |
| 1889 |
|
Erle Stanley Gardner, detective writer, creator of Perry Mason. |
| 1894 |
|
Georges Lemaitre, Belgian astronomer. |
| 1898 |
|
Bernice Abbott, photographer. |
| 1899 |
|
James Cagney, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mister Roberts). |
| 1902 |
|
Christina E. Stead, novelist and screenwriter. |
| 1912 |
|
Art Linkletter, radio and television personality. |
| 1922 |
|
Donald Davie, English poet and literary critic. |
| 1923 |
|
James Purdy, writer (Cabot Wright Begins). |
| 1925 |
|
Laszlo Nagy, Hungarian poet. |
| 1935 |
|
Peter Schickele, composer, creator of P.D.Q. Bach. |
Loading ...
