Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 17

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  Astrophotograph of Vega
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  Battle of Castillon
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  Peter III of Russia
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  Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, California
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  Recovered TWA Flight 800 wreckage
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  Nicholas II of Russia
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  Damage caused by the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
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  A vehicle on the Manchester Metrolink
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  RMS Carpathia
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  Churchill, Truman, and Stalin at the Potsdam Conference
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  Etching depicting Lafayette ordering his troops to fire
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  Russian imperial family, 1913

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast day of the Scillitan Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church);	date not cited
Yama-boko Junkō in Kyoto, Japan	unreferenced section
1048 – Damasus II began his 23-day-long papacy.	Discrepancy in length of reign between article and Pope#Lengths_of_papal_reign
1762 – Peter III was killed while in custody at Ropsha, a few days after he was deposed as Emperor of Russia and replaced by his wife Catherine the Great.	Peter: missing page numbers, neutrality issues; Catherine: refimprove section
1791 – French Revolution: Members of the National Guard fired into a large crowd that was gathered at the Champ de Mars, Paris, to sign a petition demanding the removal of [[Louis XVI of France|Template:Nowrap]].	page numbers missing
1867 - In Boston, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established as the first university-based dental school in the United States.	refimprove section
1899 – The Nippon Electric Company was founded as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.	date not cited
1938 – American aviator Douglas Corrigan earned the nickname "Wrong Way" after he flew east from Brooklyn, New York City, to County Dublin, Ireland, when he intended to go west to Long Beach, California.	refimprove section
1945 – Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin (all pictured), leaders of the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union respectively, met in Potsdam to decide what should be done with post-war Germany.	copy editing needed
1951 - After a protracted political crisis and the abdication of his predecessor, Baudouin became the fifth King of the Belgians.	unreferenced section
1955 – Disneyland, the only theme park to be designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney, opened in Anaheim, California, during a televised ceremony.	needs more footnotes
1973 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last King of Afghanistan, was ousted in a coup by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.	Shah: refimprove section; Khan: unreferenced sections
1981 – A structural failure caused a walkway at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., to collapse, killing 114 people and injuring 216 others.	"More sources needed" orange banner
1998 – A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake devastated several villages in Papua New Guinea, killing more than 2,100 people, and destroying the homes of thousands more.	Too much uncited
1998 – Biologists reported in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis.	Tagged with Template:Tl, date only in footnote
2009 – Two suicide bombers detonated themselves at two separate hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia.	refimprove section
Dorothea Dix |d|1887|	lead too short
Berenice Abbott |b|1898|	refimprove sections
James Cagney|b|1899|	5x {cn}
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio |b|1918|	missing information
Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2022);	Article doesn't state 2023 date

Eligible

• 1453 – The Battle of Castillon, the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all holdings in France except the Pale of Calais.
• 1850 – William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun.
• 1862 – The garrotting and robbery of James Pilkington, a British member of Parliament, led to a moral panic in London.
• 1918 – RMS Carpathia, which had rescued survivors of the 1912 Titanic sinking, was sunk by a German [[U-boat|Template:Nowrap]] with the loss of five crew.
• 1918 – Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II and his family (pictured) were murdered by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg.
• 1944 – Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing 320 people and injuring more than 400 others.
• 1948 – In Olympia, Greece, the Summer Olympics torch relay, nicknamed the "relay of peace", began.
• 1992 – The Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom, was officially opened.
• 1996 – [[TWA Flight 800|TWA Template:Nowrap]] exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
• 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
• Born/died this day: | Edward the Elder|d|924| Empress Dowager Du |d|961| Sverker II of Sweden |d|1210| Jadwiga of Poland|d|1399| Elbridge Gerry |b|1744| Maurycy Gottlieb |d|1879| James Somerville |b|1882| Rainilaiarivony|d|1896| Eleanor Hadley |b|1916| Tatiana Nikolaevna |d|1918| Mary Osborne |b|1921| Florence Fuller |d|1946| Queen Camilla|b|1947| Barbara Rae-Venter|b|1948| Angela Merkel|b|1954| Billie Holiday|d|1959| António Costa |b|1961| Wonwoo|b|1996| David Kelly|d|2003| Edward Heath|d|2005| Otto Piene|d|2014|

Notes

• Truce of Leulinghem appears on July 18, so Battle of Castillon should not appear in the same year

July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948); World Emoji Day Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1771 – Dene men, acting as guides to Samuel Hearne on his exploration of the Coppermine River in present-day Nunavut, Canada, massacred a group of about twenty Copper Inuit.
• 1863 – The New Zealand Wars resumed as British forces led by General Duncan Cameron began the invasion of the Waikato.
• 1968 – Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (pictured), the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif in a bloodless coup.
• 1994 – Brazil won the FIFA World Cup final against Italy 3–2 on penalties following a 0–0 draw after extra time.
• 2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overran the runway at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 199 people.