Friday, July 17, 2015

History for July 17

History for July 17 - On-This-Day.com
James Cagney 1899, Art Linkletter 1912, Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian 


Donald Sutherland 1934 - Actor, Diahann Carroll 1935 - Actress, singer, Spencer Davis 1939 - Musician, singer (Spencer Davis Group) 


 Lucie Arnaz 1951 - Actress, David Hasselhoff 1952 Actor ("Knight Rider," "Baywatch"), singer, Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor 


1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade. 


1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. 


1945 - 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 made the comment that "Hitler had escaped." 


1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA


1960 - 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. 


1975 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and Soviet Union. 


1979 - Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled to Miami in exile. (Florida


1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores. 

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