On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.
On July 17, 1899, James Cagney, the Academy-Award winning American film actor, was born. Following his death on March 30, 1986, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1821 | Spain ceded Florida to the United States. |
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| 1898 | Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to U.S. forces during the Spanish-American War. |
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| 1917 | With the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name from the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor. |
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| 1918 | Russia's Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks. |
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| 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. |
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| 1948 | Southern Democrats opposed to the party's position on civil rights met in Birmingham, Ala., to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond for president. |
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| 1955 | Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif. |
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| 1961 | Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74. |
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| 1967 | Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane died at age 40. |
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| 1981 | A pair of walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a dance, killing 114 people. |
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| 1996 | TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Paris, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport. All 230 people aboard were killed. |
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| 2000 | Bashar Assad succeeded his late father, Hafez Assad, becoming Syria's 16th head of state. |
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| 2009 | Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died at age 92. |
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Current Birthdays
German Chancellor Angela Merkel turns 57 years old today.
AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, turns 64 years old today.
AP Photo/Chris Jackson
| 1917 | Phyllis Diller, Comedian, turns 94 |
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| 1935 | Diahann Carroll, Actress, singer, turns 76 |
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| 1935 | Donald Sutherland, Actor, turns 76 |
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| 1942 | Spencer Davis, Rock singer, musician, turns 69 |
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| 1942 | Connie Hawkins, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 69 |
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| 1949 | Terry "Geezer" Butler, Rock musician (Black Sabbath), turns 62 |
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| 1951 | Lucie Arnaz, Actress, turns 60 |
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| 1952 | David Hasselhoff, Actor ("Baywatch," "Knight Rider"), turns 59 |
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| 1956 | Bryan Trottier, Hockey Hall of Famer, turns 55 |
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| 1960 | Mark Burnett, TV producer ("Survivor," "The Apprentice"), turns 51 |
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Historic Birthdays
| 73 | William Gargan 7/17/1905 - 2/16/1979
American motion-picture and television actor |
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| 71 | Georges Lemaitre 7/17/1894 - 6/20/1966
Belgian astronomer and cosmologist |
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| 80 | Erle Stanley Gardner 7/17/1889 - 3/11/1970
American mystery novelist and lawyer |
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| 81 | S. Y. Agnon 7/17/1888 - 2/17/1970
Israeli novelist and short-story writer |
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| 86 | Ernest Rhys 7/17/1859 - 5/25/1946
English editor |
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| 90 | Sir Erskine Holland 7/17/1835 - 5/24/1926
English legal scholar |
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| 84 | John Jacob Astor 7/17/1763 - 3/29/1848
German-born American founder of the Astor dynasty |
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| 70 | Elbridge Gerry 7/17/1744 - 11/23/1814
American Revolutionary leader and U.S. vice president (1813-14) |
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| 47 | Alexander Baumgarten 7/17/1714 - 5/26/1762
German philosopher and educator |
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