At this time is Wednesday, July 17, the 199th day of 2024. There are 167 days left within the 12 months.
At this time’s Spotlight in Historical past:
On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California after its $17 million, year-long building; the park drew one million guests in its first 10 weeks.
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In 1862, throughout the Civil Struggle, Congress accredited the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that each one slaves taking refuge behind Union strains had been to be let out.
In 1902, Willis Service produced a set of designs for what would turn into the world’s first trendy air-conditioning system.
In 1918, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his household had been executed by the Bolsheviks.
In 1936, the Spanish Civil Struggle started as right-wing military generals launched a coup try in opposition to the Second Spanish Republic.
In 1944, throughout World Struggle II, 320 males, two-thirds of them African-Individuals, had been killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded on the Port Chicago Naval Journal in California.
In 1945, following Nazi Germany’s give up, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet chief Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill started assembly at Potsdam within the closing Allied summit of World Struggle II.
In 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit within the first superpower link-up of its variety.
In 1981, 114 folks had been killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the foyer of the Kansas Metropolis Hyatt Regency Lodge collapsed throughout a tea dance.
In 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Europe-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Lengthy Island, New York, shortly after departing John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport, killing all 230 folks on board.
In 2014, all 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airways Flight 17 had been killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over rebel-held jap Ukraine; each Ukraine’s authorities and pro-Russian separatists denied duty.
In 2020, civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped provoke opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a protracted and celebrated profession in Congress, died at age 80.
In 2022, a report stated almost 400 legislation enforcement officers rushed to a mass taking pictures that left 21 folks lifeless at a Texas elementary faculty, however “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in a chaotic scene that lasted greater than an hour earlier than the gunman was lastly confronted and killed.
At this time’s Birthdays:
- Sportscaster Verne Lundquist is 84.
- Queen Camilla of the UK is 77.
- Rock musician Terry “Geezer” Butler is 75.
- Actor Lucie Arnaz is 73.
- Actor David Hasselhoff is 72.
- Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is 70.
- Movie director Wong Kar-wai is 66.
- Tv producer Mark Burnett is 64.
- Singer Regina Belle is 61.
- Nation music artist Craig Morgan is 60.
- Rock musician Lou Barlow is 58.
- Actor Bitty Schram (TV: “Monk”) is 56.
- Actor Jason Clarke is 55.
- Film director F. Gary Grey is 55.
- Nation singer Luke Bryan is 48.
- Movie director/screenwriter Justine Triet is 46.
- R&B singer Jeremih (jehr-uh-MY’) is 37.
- Actor Billie Lourd is 32.
- NHL middle Connor Bedard is nineteen.
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