1453 |
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France defeats England at Castillon, France, ending the Hundred Years’ War. |
1762 |
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Peter III of Russia is murdered and his wife, Catherine II, takes the throne. |
1785 |
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France limits the importation of goods from Britain. |
1791 |
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National Guard troops open fire on a crowd of demonstrators in Paris. |
1799 |
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Ottoman forces, supported by the British, capture Aboukir, Egypt from the French. |
1801 |
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The U.S. fleet arrives in Tripoli. |
1815 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British at Rochefort, France. |
1821 |
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Andrew Jackson becomes the governor of Florida. |
1864 |
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis replaces General Joseph E. Johnston with General John Bell Hood in hopes of defeating Union General William T. Shermanoutside Atlanta. |
1898 |
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U.S. troops under General William R. Shafter take Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. |
1918 |
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Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia. |
1944 |
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Field Marshall Erwin Rommel is wounded when an Allied fighter strafes his staff car in France. |
1946 |
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Chinese communists attack the Nationalist army on the Yangtze River. |
1960 |
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American pilot Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court. |
1966 |
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Ho Chi Minh orders a partial mobilization of North Vietnam to defend against American airstrikes. |
1987 |
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Lt. Col. Oliver North and Rear Adm. John Poindexter begin testifying to Congress regarding the Iran-Contra scandal. |
Born on July 17 |
1674 |
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Isaac Watts, English minister and hymn writer. |
1763 |
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John Jacob Astor, American fur trader and entrepreneur. |
1888 |
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S.Y. Agnon, Israeli writer (The Day Before Yesterday). |
1889 |
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Erle Stanley Gardner, detective writer, creator of Perry Mason. |
1894 |
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Georges Lemaitre, Belgian astronomer. |
1898 |
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Bernice Abbott, photographer. |
1899 |
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James Cagney, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mister Roberts). |
1902 |
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Christina E. Stead, novelist and screenwriter. |
1912 |
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Art Linkletter, radio and television personality. |
1922 |
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Donald Davie, English poet and literary critic. |
1923 |
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James Purdy, writer (Cabot Wright Begins). |
1925 |
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Laszlo Nagy, Hungarian poet. |
1935 |
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Peter Schickele, composer, creator of P.D.Q. Bach. |