Tuesday, July 17, 2018

History for July 17

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James Cagney 1899, Art Linkletter 1912, Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian
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Lucie Arnaz 1951 - Actress, David Hasselhoff 1952 Actor ("Knight Rider," "Baywatch"), singer, Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor
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1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.
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1453 - France defeated England at Castillon, France, which ended the 100 Years' War.
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1917 - The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.
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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."
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1950 - The television show "The Colgate Comedy Hour" debuted featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
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1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.
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1975 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.
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