The July 17th is the 198e Jour of the Année (199e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 1301 : letters patent of Charles II establish the equivalence of the monetary ounce of gold of Sicily in carlins of money and guilders of gold.

  • 1453 : Battle of Castillon.
  • 1744 : By letter patent gone back to Dunkirk, Louis XV recognizes the foundation of a Learned society which will become later the Académie of Montauban, to which in particular took part Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan and its cousin Géraud Valet of Réganhac.
  • 1789 :
    • Fayette makes adopt the tricolor rosette by the National guard.
    • has ten hours of the morning, Louis XVI, accompanied by one hundred members of the National Assembly, goes to Paris, in order to receive the homage of its subjects. It is received with the town hall of Paris by the mayor Jean Sylvain Bailly. On this occasion, it raises the rosette of the Parisian guard. It was said, wrongly that it was the origin of the three national colors. It reappears in Versailles around eleven hours of the evening.
  • 1791 : The massacre of the Champ de Mars.
  • 1815 : Napoleon delivers to the British troops with Rochefort.
  • 1867 : Publication of the first Volume of the principal work of Marx the Capital ( Das Kapital ) with London.

20th century

21e century

  • 2003 : David Kelly, 59 years, former inspector of UNO, specialist in the bacteriological weapons of the British ministry of Defense, is found died after a controversy between BBC and the government.

  • 2005 : Eleven firemen find death in Spain whereas they tried to extinguish a fire which will destroy 12.000 hectares of vegetation in the Province of Guadalajara.
  • 2006 :
    • French the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin goes in visit to Beirut, whereas the capital Lebanon ease is submitted to violent one Israeli bombardments , after the release of an operation of great width by Israel following the removal of two of its soldiers by the militia Chiite of the Hezbollah.
    • In Indonesia, new a Tsunami touched the island indonésienne Java, with 17:07 local time (Paris 11h07 time). Caused by a seism of a magnitude 7,7 intervened a few minutes earlier with 250 kilometers of the coast, he saw waves of two meters in height break on the south-western coast of the island, devastating all on their passage, flap of the buildings and damaging fishing vessels. The last assessment gives a report of at least 300 dead and more on 400 wounded. Many tourists appear among the victims.
    • In Avignon, creation, in the main courtyard of the Palate of the Popes, within the framework of the Festival of Avignon, of the part of Maxime Gorki the Barbarians , put in scene by Eric Lacascade, which offers a kind of international recognition to an ignored part of the Russian writer, one century after she was written (1905).
  • 2007 :
    • a A-320 Airbus of the company Tam Linahs Aereas (TAM) runs up against a gasoline warehouse after having missed its landing with the Aéroport by Congonhas, with Sao Paulo with the Brésil. There were 176 people on board apparatus, none did not survive. Of more than other victims of the accident were on the ground, letting accept a tragedy making nearly 200 victims.

Births

Death

Celebrations

First names

  • Navy, Marguerite

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Marguerite d' Antioche de Pisidie or Navy or Marina (4th century), martyrdom.

Holy catholics of the day

Anecdote

July 17th is the date posting itself by defect on the icon of ICal, an application of Mac OS X. It corresponds to its date of advertisement.

See too

Beats-smg: Lėipas 17 Be-X-old: 17 ліпеня Fiu-vro: 17. hainakuu päiv Nds-nl: 17 juli Simple: July 17 Zh-yue: 7 月 17 號

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