July 17
1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1898 - Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba surrendered to U.S. forces during the Spanish-American War.
1917 - With the country at war with Germany during World War I, the British royal family changed is name from the German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
1945 - President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began 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.
1967 - Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane died at age 40.
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 takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport. All 230 people on board were killed. It was ruled that most likely fuel vapors inside the fuel tanks were ignited by an electrical short circuit, causing the explosion.
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.
Birthdays
39 - Luke Bryan (country singer)
46 - Jason Clarke (actor)
47 - Beth Littleford (actress)
51 - Craig Morgan (country singer)
55 - Mark Burnett (TV producer)
61 - Angela Merkel (German chancellor)
63 - David Hasselhoff (actor)
68 - Camilla Parker Bowles (wife of Britain's Prince Charles)
80 - Donald Sutherland (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 17
1924 - Jesse Haines of the St. Louis Cardinals no-hit the Boston Braves.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak was ended by Al Smith and Jim Bagby Jr. of the Cleveland Indians.
1961 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74.
1979 - The National League won the All-Star Game 7-6 at the Kingdome in Seattle. Dave Parker of the Pittsburgh Pirates was named MVP.
1990 - The Minnesota Twins set a major league record by recording two triple plays in a game against the Boston Red Sox.
1994 - Brazil defeated Italy in the first ever shootout to decide a World Cup title. It was Brazil's fourth championship.
2001 - Northern Illinois strength and conditioning coach John Binkowski was fired after he ordered about 20 football players to run through a drum corps that was practicing at Husky Stadium.
2005 - Tiger Woods won his second British Open, and became the second player in golf history to win the career Grand Slam twice.
2009 - The Atlanta Braves retired Greg Maddux's No. 31.
2011 - Darren Clarke won the 140th British Open.
2011 - Japan defeated the United States 3-1 on penalty kicks, after a 2-2 draw in regulation, to win the Women's World Cup.
1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1898 - Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba surrendered to U.S. forces during the Spanish-American War.
1917 - With the country at war with Germany during World War I, the British royal family changed is name from the German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
1945 - President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began 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.
1967 - Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane died at age 40.
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 takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport. All 230 people on board were killed. It was ruled that most likely fuel vapors inside the fuel tanks were ignited by an electrical short circuit, causing the explosion.
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.
Birthdays
39 - Luke Bryan (country singer)
46 - Jason Clarke (actor)
47 - Beth Littleford (actress)
51 - Craig Morgan (country singer)
55 - Mark Burnett (TV producer)
61 - Angela Merkel (German chancellor)
63 - David Hasselhoff (actor)
68 - Camilla Parker Bowles (wife of Britain's Prince Charles)
80 - Donald Sutherland (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 17
1924 - Jesse Haines of the St. Louis Cardinals no-hit the Boston Braves.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak was ended by Al Smith and Jim Bagby Jr. of the Cleveland Indians.
1961 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74.
1979 - The National League won the All-Star Game 7-6 at the Kingdome in Seattle. Dave Parker of the Pittsburgh Pirates was named MVP.
1990 - The Minnesota Twins set a major league record by recording two triple plays in a game against the Boston Red Sox.
1994 - Brazil defeated Italy in the first ever shootout to decide a World Cup title. It was Brazil's fourth championship.
2001 - Northern Illinois strength and conditioning coach John Binkowski was fired after he ordered about 20 football players to run through a drum corps that was practicing at Husky Stadium.
2005 - Tiger Woods won his second British Open, and became the second player in golf history to win the career Grand Slam twice.
2009 - The Atlanta Braves retired Greg Maddux's No. 31.
2011 - Darren Clarke won the 140th British Open.
2011 - Japan defeated the United States 3-1 on penalty kicks, after a 2-2 draw in regulation, to win the Women's World Cup.
