July 17
Today is the 198th day of 2021, there are 167 days left in the year.
1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1862 - During the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free.
1898 - Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, bringing an end to the Spanish-American War.
1917 - The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German sentiment during World War I.
1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.
1938 - "Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and instead landing in Ireland.
1944 - During World War II, 320 men, two-thirds of them African-Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.
1945 - Following Nazi Germany's surrender, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the opening of the Potsdam Conference, the final Allied summit of World War II.
1948 - Southern Democrats opposed to the party's position on civil rights met in Birmingham, Alabama, to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond for president.
1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California.
1962 - The United States conducted its last atmospheric nuclear test to date, detonating a 20-kiloton device, codenamed Little Feller I, at the Nevada Test Site.
1975 - The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up in orbit for the first time.
1981 - A pair of walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a dance, killing 114 people.
1996 - TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Paris, exploded and crashed off Long Island, New York, shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport. All 230 people aboard were killed.
1997 - Woolworth Corp. announced it was closing its 400 remaining five-and-dime stores across the country, ending 117 years in business.
1998 - The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
2000 - Bashar Assad succeeded his late father, Hafez Assad, becoming Syria's 16th head of state.
2009 - Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died at age 92.
2014 - Eric Garner, a Black man accused of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, died shortly after being wrestled to the ground by New York City police officers; a video of the takedown showed Garner repeatedly saying, “I can’t breathe.” (Garner’s family received $5.9 million from the city in 2015 to settle a wrongful death claim.)
2014 - All 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine; both Ukraine’s government and pro-Russian separatists denied responsibility.
2020 - Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died at the age of 80.
2020 - Militarized federal agents deployed by President Donald Trump to Portland, Oregon, again fired tear gas to break up crowds of protesters as the city’s mayor demanded that the agents be removed. Oregon’s attorney general sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Marshals Service, alleging that unidentified federal agents had grabbed people off the streets of Portland with no warrant or explanation.
Birthdays
24 - Leo Howard (actor)
27 - Jessica Amlee (actress)
29 - Billie Lourd (actress)
29 - Amy Hart (reality star)
33 - Summer Bishil (actress)
35 - Brando Eaton (actor)
36 - Tom Cullen (actor)
38 - Sarah Jones (actress)
39 - Stefania Spampinato (actress)
42 - Mike Vogel (actor)
45 - Eric Winter (actor)
45 - Luke Bryan (country singer)
52 - Jason Clarke (actor)
53 - Andre Royo (actor)
57 - Craig Morgan (country singer)
58 - Regina Belle (singer)
61 - Nancy Giles (actress)
69 - David Hasselhoff (actor)
70 - Lucie Arnaz (actress)
74 - Camila, Duchess of Cornwall (wife of Britain's Prince Charles)
81 - Verne Lundquist (sportscaster)
86 - Donald Sutherland (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 17
1925 - Tris Speaker of the Boston Red Sox becomes the fifth player in major league history to record 3,000 career hits.
1936 - Pitcher Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants begins what would become his MLB record 24-game winning streak with a 6-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1941 - The longest hitting streak in major league baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians held Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hitless for the first time in 57 games. The streak had begun on May 15, 1941.
1954 - The Brooklyn Dodgers made history as the first team with a majority of its roster being black players.
1961 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74.
1976 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Montreal, Canada; 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa.
1978 - New York Yankees manager Billy Martin and player Reggie Jackson get into an altercation in the dugout after Jackson refuses to bunt, causing Martin to suspend him.
1990 - In a game against the Boston Red Sox, the Minnesota Twins become the first team in major league history to turn two triple plays in one game.
1994 - Brazil won a record fourth World Cup title, defeating Italy 3-2 on penalty kicks.
2011 - Japan defeated the United States 3-1 in a penalty shootout to win the Women's World Cup in Frankfurt, Germany.
2018 - Bloomberg estimates the NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8.1 billion to the league's 32 teams ($255 million each).
2018 - Australian basketball center Liz Cambage scores 53 points as the Dallas Wings beat the New York Liberty 104-87 to set a new WNBA single-game scoring record.
2018 - In Washington, D.C., the American League beats the National League 8-6 to win the All-Star Game. The two teams combined for a record 10 home runs accounting for 13 of the 14 total runs scored.
Today is the 198th day of 2021, there are 167 days left in the year.
1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1862 - During the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free.
1898 - Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, bringing an end to the Spanish-American War.
1917 - The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German sentiment during World War I.
1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.
1938 - "Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and instead landing in Ireland.
1944 - During World War II, 320 men, two-thirds of them African-Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.
1945 - Following Nazi Germany's surrender, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the opening of the Potsdam Conference, the final Allied summit of World War II.
1948 - Southern Democrats opposed to the party's position on civil rights met in Birmingham, Alabama, to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond for president.
1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California.
1962 - The United States conducted its last atmospheric nuclear test to date, detonating a 20-kiloton device, codenamed Little Feller I, at the Nevada Test Site.
1975 - The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up in orbit for the first time.
1981 - A pair of walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a dance, killing 114 people.
1996 - TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Paris, exploded and crashed off Long Island, New York, shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport. All 230 people aboard were killed.
1997 - Woolworth Corp. announced it was closing its 400 remaining five-and-dime stores across the country, ending 117 years in business.
1998 - The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
2000 - Bashar Assad succeeded his late father, Hafez Assad, becoming Syria's 16th head of state.
2009 - Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died at age 92.
2014 - Eric Garner, a Black man accused of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, died shortly after being wrestled to the ground by New York City police officers; a video of the takedown showed Garner repeatedly saying, “I can’t breathe.” (Garner’s family received $5.9 million from the city in 2015 to settle a wrongful death claim.)
2014 - All 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine; both Ukraine’s government and pro-Russian separatists denied responsibility.
2020 - Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died at the age of 80.
2020 - Militarized federal agents deployed by President Donald Trump to Portland, Oregon, again fired tear gas to break up crowds of protesters as the city’s mayor demanded that the agents be removed. Oregon’s attorney general sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Marshals Service, alleging that unidentified federal agents had grabbed people off the streets of Portland with no warrant or explanation.
Birthdays
24 - Leo Howard (actor)
27 - Jessica Amlee (actress)
29 - Billie Lourd (actress)
29 - Amy Hart (reality star)
33 - Summer Bishil (actress)
35 - Brando Eaton (actor)
36 - Tom Cullen (actor)
38 - Sarah Jones (actress)
39 - Stefania Spampinato (actress)
42 - Mike Vogel (actor)
45 - Eric Winter (actor)
45 - Luke Bryan (country singer)
52 - Jason Clarke (actor)
53 - Andre Royo (actor)
57 - Craig Morgan (country singer)
58 - Regina Belle (singer)
61 - Nancy Giles (actress)
69 - David Hasselhoff (actor)
70 - Lucie Arnaz (actress)
74 - Camila, Duchess of Cornwall (wife of Britain's Prince Charles)
81 - Verne Lundquist (sportscaster)
86 - Donald Sutherland (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 17
1925 - Tris Speaker of the Boston Red Sox becomes the fifth player in major league history to record 3,000 career hits.
1936 - Pitcher Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants begins what would become his MLB record 24-game winning streak with a 6-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1941 - The longest hitting streak in major league baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians held Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hitless for the first time in 57 games. The streak had begun on May 15, 1941.
1954 - The Brooklyn Dodgers made history as the first team with a majority of its roster being black players.
1961 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74.
1976 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Montreal, Canada; 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa.
1978 - New York Yankees manager Billy Martin and player Reggie Jackson get into an altercation in the dugout after Jackson refuses to bunt, causing Martin to suspend him.
1990 - In a game against the Boston Red Sox, the Minnesota Twins become the first team in major league history to turn two triple plays in one game.
1994 - Brazil won a record fourth World Cup title, defeating Italy 3-2 on penalty kicks.
2011 - Japan defeated the United States 3-1 in a penalty shootout to win the Women's World Cup in Frankfurt, Germany.
2018 - Bloomberg estimates the NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8.1 billion to the league's 32 teams ($255 million each).
2018 - Australian basketball center Liz Cambage scores 53 points as the Dallas Wings beat the New York Liberty 104-87 to set a new WNBA single-game scoring record.
2018 - In Washington, D.C., the American League beats the National League 8-6 to win the All-Star Game. The two teams combined for a record 10 home runs accounting for 13 of the 14 total runs scored.
