Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 17
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This is a list of selected July 17 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.July 17: Birthday of Ali in Iran (2008); Yama-boko Junkō in Kyoto, Japan; Constitution Day in South Korea
- 1762 – Peter III was killed at Ropsha, a few days after he was deposed as Emperor of Russia and replaced by his wife Catherine II.
- 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon made his formal surrender to British forces on board the HMS Bellerophon off the port of Rochefort, France, ending the Hundred Days.
- 1936 – Nationalist rebels in Spain attempted a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, commencing the Spanish Civil War.
- 1945 – Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry S. Truman met at the Potsdam Conference to decide how to administer post-World War II Germany.
- 1955 – Walt Disney's first theme park Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California.
- 1998 – Biologists reported in the scientific journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis.