July 17<\/p>\n
180 \u2013 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, in modern day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.<\/p>\n
1203 \u2013 The Army of the Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople<\/p>\n
1821 \u2013 The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the U.S.<\/p>\n
1850 \u2013 Vega – Alpha Lyrae – at 25 light years distance, becomes the first star, other than the Sun, to be photographed\u00a0by William Bond and John Adams Whipple at the Harvard College Observatory.<\/p>\n
1867 \u2013 The Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
1881 \u2013 Mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide Jim Bridger dies, age 77, at his home near Kansas City.<\/p>\n
1918 \u2013 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolsheviks<\/p>\n
1936 \u2013 An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish Civil War<\/p>\n
1938 \u2013 Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.<\/p>\n
1944 \u2013 During World War II, at Port Chicago, California, the San Francisco Bay, the Liberty ship SS E. A. Bryana<\/em> explodes while being loaded with ammunition, killing 320 people and injuring 390.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013\u00a0 A Marine Corps Fairchild Packet<\/em> transport aircraft crashes on takeoff from Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Florida, causing the largest number of United States Midshipman casualties in a single event, killing 38 of the 40 aboard and 5 of the 6 crew.<\/p>\n 1955 \u2013 Disneyland is opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 The 18 TNT ton equivalent yield W54 “Small Boy” test shot Little Feller I<\/em>\u00a0 becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747-100, explodes in the air and crashes off the Atlantic Ocean coast of Long Island, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court, seated in The Hague, Netherlands, to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the S\u00e3o Paulo\u2013Congonhas Airport runway, killing all 187 passengers and crew aboard, and 12 more on the ground.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, is shot down by Russian supported forces\u00a0while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 American astronomer Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team at the Carnegie Institution for Science, has discovered a dozen new moons of Jupiter.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 Indiana resident Eli Dicken takes matters into his own hands and shoots down a mass shooter at the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana.using a bog standard Glock 19 loaded with Blazer fmj ‘hardball’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 17 180 \u2013 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, in modern day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. 1203 \u2013 The Army of the Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople 1821 \u2013 The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57065"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94461,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57065\/revisions\/94461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}