Today in History for 17th July 2022

[CoM Moderators]

Historical Events

1774 - Captain James Cook arrives in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
1945 - Potsdam Conference: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold 1st post-World War II meeting
1958 - Peter Shaffer's musical "Five Finger Exercise" premieres in London
1974 - John Lennon is (again) ordered to leave US in 60 days, due to a 1968 marijuana charge in the UK
1975 - Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; attack the first major breach of a February truce
1987 - Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1897 - Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1948 - Phillip Harris, rocker
1948 - Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director, born in Zurich Switzerland (d. 2015)
1949 - Mike Vale, American rock bassist (Tommy James and The Shondells)
1975 - Elena Anaya, Spanish actress, born in Palencia, Spain
1978 - Émilie Simon, French singer, born in Montpellier, France

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
1766 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit brother and missionary to China, dies at 77
1943 - Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943), dies at 72
1989 - Heinz Risse, German writer, dies at 91
2009 - Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
2020 - Derek Ho, American surfer (World C'ship 1993; Hawaiian Triple Crown 1984, 86, 88, 90), dies from a heart attack at 55

More Famous Deaths »