Tukuk-OS📅 July 17
16 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on July 17? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2014 — Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
- 2007 — TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overran the runway at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 199 people.
TAM Airlines Flight 3054Runway excursionSão Paulo–Congonhas Airport
- 1996 — TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
- 1994 — Brazil won the FIFA World Cup final against Italy 3–2 on penalties, following a 0–0 draw after extra time.
Brazil national football team1994 FIFA World Cup finalItaly national football team
- 1992 — The Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom, was officially opened.
- 1968 — Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (pictured), the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif in a bloodless coup.
- 1948 — In Olympia, Greece, the Summer Olympics torch relay, nicknamed the "relay of peace", began.
- 1944 — Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing 320 people and injuring more than 400 others.
Port Chicago disasterPort Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
- 1936 — Nationalist military officers launch a coup d'état against the Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War
Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)Spanish coup of July 1936Second Spanish Republic
- 1918 — RMS Carpathia, which had rescued survivors of the 1912 Titanic sinking, was sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of five crew.
- 1918 — Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II and his family (pictured) were murdered by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg.
- 1863 — The New Zealand Wars resumed as British forces led by General Duncan Cameron began the invasion of the Waikato.
New Zealand WarsDuncan Cameron (British Army officer)Invasion of the Waikato
- 1862 — The garrotting and robbery of James Pilkington, a British member of Parliament, led to a moral panic in London.
GarroteJames Pilkington (politician)Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)
- 1850 — William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun.
- 1771 — Dene men who were acting as guides to Samuel Hearne on his exploration of the Coppermine River in present-day Nunavut, Canada, massacred a group of about twenty Copper Inuit.
- 1453 — The Battle of Castillon, the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all holdings in France except the Pale of Calais.
Births
- 2005 — Connor Bedard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 2002 — Jordan Lawlar, American baseball player
- 1998 — Rosana Serrano, Cuban rower
- 1997 — OG Anunoby, British basketball player
- 1996 — Wonwoo, South Korean rapper and singer
- 1996 — Grace Caroline Currey, American actress
- 1994 — Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter
- 1992 — Billie Lourd, American actress
- 1992 — Tatu Sinisalo, Finnish actor
- 1992 — Nick Bjugstad, American ice hockey player
- 1991 — Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1987 — Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
Deaths
- 2025 — Felix Baumgartner, Austrian daredevil (born 1969)
- 2025 — Alan Bergman, American songwriter (born 1925)
- 2025 — Joanna Kołaczkowska, Polish cabaret performer (born 1966)
- 2024 — Cheng Pei-pei, Chinese actress (born 1946)
- 2024 — Mary Gibby, British botanist and professor (born 1949)
- 2024 — Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer, songwriter and scholar (born 1942)
- 2024 — Pat Williams, American basketball player (born 1940)
- 2020 — John Lewis, American civil rights activist and politician (born 1940)
- 2020 — Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pair skater (born 2000)
- 2019 — Marie Sophie Hingst, German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors
- 2015 — Jules Bianchi, French racing driver (born 1989)
- 2015 — Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (born 1916)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Alexius of Rome (Western Church)
- Christian feast day: Andrew Zorard
- Christian feast day: Cynehelm
- Christian feast day: Cynllo
- Christian feast day: Inácio de Azevedo
- Christian feast day: Jadwiga of Poland
- Christian feast day: Magnus Felix Ennodius
- Christian feast day: Marcellina
- Christian feast day: Martyrs of Compiègne
- Christian feast day: Blessed Pavel Peter Gojdič (Greek Catholic Church)
- Christian feast day: Pope Leo IV
- Christian feast day: Romanov sainthood (Russian Orthodox Church)
- Christian feast day: Speratus and companions
- Christian feast day:
William White (Episcopal Church)
William White (bishop of Pennsylvania)The Calendar of the Church Year
- Christian feast day: July 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Constitution Day (South Korea)
- Gion Matsuri (Yasaka Shrine, Kyoto)
- Independence Day (Slovakia)
- International Firgun Day (International)
- King's Birthday (Lesotho)
- U Tirot Sing Day (Meghalaya, India)
- World Day for International Justice (International)
- World Emoji Day (International)
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