July 17
Today is the 199th day of 2016, there are 167 days left in the year.
1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1898 - Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba surrendered to U.S. forces, ending the Spanish-American War.
1917 - With the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name from the German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
1938 - "Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and 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 - President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began a meeting at Potsdam in 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 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.
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 on board were killed.
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 - All 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
Birthdays
33 - Sarah Jones (actress)
40 - Luke Bryan (country singer)
47 - Jason Clarke (actor)
48 - Beth Littleford (actress)
52 - Craig Morgan (country singer)
56 - Mark Burnett (producer)
62 - Angela Merkel (politician)
64 - David Hasselhoff (actor)
69 - Camilla Parker Bowles (wife of Britain's Prince Charles)
81 - Donald Sutherland (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 17
1914 - The New York Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 in 21 innings.
1918 - Longest errorless Major League baseball game, Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio's record 56-game hitting streak comes to an end in a game against the Cleveland Indians.
1961 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74.
1966 - Jim Ryun sets a new world record in the mile run with a time of 3:51.3.
1974 - Bob Gibson becomes the second pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 strikeouts.
1976 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1976 - The ABA officially merges with the NBA. Four ABA teams were added to the NBA: Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets and the San Antonio Spurs.
1979 - The National League wins the All-Star Game 7-6 in Seattle.
1988 - Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith Joyner sets a new world record in the women's 100 meter dash at 10.49 seconds.
1990 - The Minnesota Twins become the first team in major league history to turn two triple plays in the same game in a win over the Boston Red Sox.
1994 - Brazil defeats Italy 3-2 in penalty kicks to win the World Cup. It was a record fourth World Cup for Brazil.
Today is the 199th day of 2016, there are 167 days left in the year.
1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1898 - Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba surrendered to U.S. forces, ending the Spanish-American War.
1917 - With the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name from the German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
1938 - "Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and 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 - President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began a meeting at Potsdam in 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 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.
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 on board were killed.
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 - All 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
Birthdays
33 - Sarah Jones (actress)
40 - Luke Bryan (country singer)
47 - Jason Clarke (actor)
48 - Beth Littleford (actress)
52 - Craig Morgan (country singer)
56 - Mark Burnett (producer)
62 - Angela Merkel (politician)
64 - David Hasselhoff (actor)
69 - Camilla Parker Bowles (wife of Britain's Prince Charles)
81 - Donald Sutherland (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 17
1914 - The New York Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 in 21 innings.
1918 - Longest errorless Major League baseball game, Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio's record 56-game hitting streak comes to an end in a game against the Cleveland Indians.
1961 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74.
1966 - Jim Ryun sets a new world record in the mile run with a time of 3:51.3.
1974 - Bob Gibson becomes the second pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 strikeouts.
1976 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1976 - The ABA officially merges with the NBA. Four ABA teams were added to the NBA: Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets and the San Antonio Spurs.
1979 - The National League wins the All-Star Game 7-6 in Seattle.
1988 - Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith Joyner sets a new world record in the women's 100 meter dash at 10.49 seconds.
1990 - The Minnesota Twins become the first team in major league history to turn two triple plays in the same game in a win over the Boston Red Sox.
1994 - Brazil defeats Italy 3-2 in penalty kicks to win the World Cup. It was a record fourth World Cup for Brazil.
