1917 –<\/strong> The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.<\/p>\n 1920 –<\/strong> Sinclair Lewis finished his novel “Main Street.”<\/p>\n 1941 –<\/strong> The longest hitting streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hitless for the first time in 57 games.<\/p>\n 1941 –<\/strong> Brigadier General Somervell directed Architect G. Edwin Bergstrom to have basic plans and architectural perspectives for an office building that could house 40,000 War Department employees on his desk by the following Monday morning. The building became known as the Pentagon.<\/p>\n 1945 –<\/strong> U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. During the meeting, Stalin commented that “Hitler had escaped.”<\/p>\n 1946 –<\/strong> Chinese communists opened a drive against the Nationalist army on the Yangtze River.<\/p>\n 1950 –<\/strong> The television show “The Colgate Comedy Hour” debuted featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.<\/p>\n 1954 –<\/strong> The Brooklyn Dodgers made history as the first team with a majority of black players.<\/p>\n 1955 –<\/strong> Disneyland opened in Anaheim,\u00a0CA.<\/p>\n 1960 –<\/strong> Francis Gary Powers pled guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1966 –<\/strong> Ho Chi Minh ordered a partial mobilization of North Vietnam forces to defend against American airstrikes.<\/p>\n 1975 –<\/strong> An\u00a0Apollo<\/i>\u00a0spaceship docked with a\u00a0Soyuz<\/i> spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link-up between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1979 –<\/strong> Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled to Miami in exile. (Florida)<\/p>\n 1986 –<\/strong> The largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history took place when LTV Corporation asked for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors. LTV Corp. had debts over $4 billion.<\/p>\n 1987 –<\/strong> Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Rear Admiral John Poindexter begin testifying to Congress at the “Iran-Contra” hearings.<\/p>\n 1995 –<\/strong> The Nasdaq composite stock index rose above 1,000 for the first time.<\/p>\n 1997 –<\/strong> After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.<\/p>\n 1998 –<\/strong> Biologists reported that they had deciphered the genome (genetic map) of the syphilis bacterium.<\/p>\n 2008 –<\/strong> In China, the construction of the Shanghai World Financial Center was completed.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013<\/strong> Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013<\/strong> A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Penguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013<\/strong> At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013<\/strong> Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan runner History of 17 July 1917 – The British royal family adopted the Windsor name. 1920 – Sinclair Lewis finished his novel “Main Street.” 1941 – The longest hitting streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hitless for the first time in 57 games. 1941 – Brigadier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[805,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-11125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-17-july","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-2Tr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24235,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions\/24235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n1982 \u2013<\/strong> Omari Banks, Anguillan cricketer
\n1982 \u2013<\/strong> Natasha Hamilton, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
\n1983 \u2013<\/strong> Ryan Guettler, Australian motocross racer
\n1983 \u2013<\/strong> Adam Lind, American baseball player
\n1985 \u2013<\/strong> Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
\n1985 \u2013<\/strong> Tom Fletcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
\n1985 \u2013<\/strong> Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
\n1986 \u2013<\/strong> DeAngelo Smith, American football player
\n1986 \u2013<\/strong> Lacey Von Erich, American wrestler
\n1987 \u2013<\/strong> Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
\n1987 \u2013<\/strong> Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
\n1987 \u2013<\/strong> Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
\n1994 \u2013<\/strong> Benjamin Mendy, French footballer
\n1994 \u2013<\/strong> Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"