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Today is Monday, July 17, 2023.
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Day of Justice.
🌍 World Hug Your Children Day.
🌏 World Emoji Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA, 🇨🇦 Canada - National Lottery Day.
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Queen Consort's birthday.
🇸🇮 Slovakia - Independence Day.
🇱🇸 Lesotho - King's Day.
🇧🇼 Botswana - President's Day.
🇯🇵 Japan - Sea Day.
🇰🇷 South Korea - Constitution Day.
🇷🇺 Russia - Maritime Aviation Day.
🇷🇺 Russia - Day of Ethnographers.
👉 EVENTS:
Mil. av. 709 First description of a total solar eclipse by Chu Fu of China.
— 1048 — King Henry III of Germany expels Pope Benedict IX from Rome and replaces him with Damasius II.
-1429 - The coronation ceremony of the French king Charles VII took place in Reims, which was recaptured from the British.
— 1453 — The end of the Hundred Years' War. The French defeated the British at Castillon (after this battle Bordeaux fell to the French).
- 1611 - Swedish army led by Jacob Delagardi captured Novgorod.
— 1710 — surrender of the Riga garrison to the Russian troops under the command of Field Marshal Sheremetev during the Northern War.
- 1775 - the first military hospital was opened in the USA.
-1785 - Polish Moritz-August Benewski declared himself emperor of Madagascar and started a war against France.
-1791 - A peaceful demonstration demanding the resignation of King Louis XVI was shot in Paris.
- 1793 - Charlotte Cordet, the killer of Jean-Paul Marat, was executed in Paris.
- 1841 - the first issue of the English comic newspaper "Panch" was published.
- 1854 - the first railway through the mountain in Europe was completed (Austria).
- 1868 - the capital of Japan was moved from Kyoto to Tokyo.
- 1915 - Germany and Austria formed an alliance with Bulgaria.
- 1917 - Workers' and soldiers' demonstration in Petrograd was shot.
-1928 - Mexican politician Obregon is assassinated in Mexico City after winning the country's presidential election.
— 1938 — Douglas Corrigan, an American aircraft mechanic, flew from New York to Dublin (instead of Los Angeles) due to a misunderstanding (mistaking the compass arrows).
-1942 — Battle of Stalingrad defense began.
-1944 - In Normandy, a British plane shot down the car of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, as a result of which the German commander was wounded.
- 1944 - The First Canadian Army entered the battle in Normandy.
- 1945 - The Potsdam Conference began.
- 1946 - Colonel Draja Mihajlovic, a veteran of the anti-fascist movement, and eight of his supporters were shot dead in Yugoslavia.
- 1947 - Indian ship "Randas" crashed in the Indian Ocean, 625 people died as a result.
- 1972 - Before the Rolling Stones concert in Montreal, a bomb planted in a truck containing the band's equipment exploded.
- 1973 - the monarchy was abolished in Afghanistan.
— 1974 — explosion at the Tower of London. One person died.
- 1975 - "Soyuz" (USSR) and "Apollo" (USA) spaceships joined.
- 1976 - XXI Olympic Games began in Montreal.
- 1979 - Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza fled to the USA.
- 1979 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein became a field marshal.
- 1982 - Israel gives the Palestine Liberation Organization 30 days to leave Beirut.
- 1990 - the first microcomputer was patented in the USA.
- 1993 - government troops captured the headquarters of the People's Front of Azerbaijan.
- 1994 - the Brazilian national team defeated the Italian national team and became the world champion in football for the fourth time.
- 1998 - Kosovo Albanians captured the city of Orahovas.
— 2011 — Uzbekistan approved the agreement on the international transport corridor.
— 2014 — Boeing 777 crashed in Donetsk region, 298 people died.
— 2015 — terrorist attack in Bani Saad (Iraq), more than 120 people died. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.