These days is Saturday, July 17, the 198th day of 2021. There are 167 times left in the year.
On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the very first superpower backlink-up of its type.
In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
In 1862, for the duration of the Civil War, Congress authorized the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge driving Union traces were to be set totally free.
In 1918, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family members ended up executed by the Bolsheviks.
In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as proper-wing military generals launched a coup attempt in opposition to the Next Spanish Republic.
In 1944, throughout Environment War II, 320 men, two-thirds of them African-Us residents, were being killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.
In 1945, following Nazi Germany’s surrender, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet chief Josef Stalin and British Key Minister Winston S. Churchill commenced meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.
In 1962, the United States executed its last atmospheric nuclear check to date, detonating a 20-kiloton system, codenamed Tiny Feller I, at the Nevada Test Website.
In 1967, right after 7 dates, Jimi Hendrix give up as the opening act for the Monkees pursuing a live performance at Forest Hills Stadium in New York. (Even though considerably admired by the Monkees, Hendrix had received a less than enthusiastic reception from their followers.)
In 1981, 114 people have been killed when a pair of suspended walkways previously mentioned the foyer of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Resort collapsed in the course of a tea dance.
In 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Europe-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Extended Island, New York, shortly immediately after departing John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board.
In 1997, Woolworth Corp. announced it was closing its 400 remaining 5-and-dime retailers across the region, ending 117 years in business.
In 2014, Eric Garner, a Black male accused of marketing free, untaxed cigarettes, died shortly after being wrestled to the ground by New York Town police officers a video clip of the takedown showed Garner frequently expressing, “I can’t breathe.” (Garner’s household been given $5.9 million from the town in 2015 to settle a wrongful demise declare.)
5 a long time in the past: Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers investigating a report of a man with an assault rifle ended up killed, much less than two weeks soon after a Black gentleman was shot and killed by police in the metropolis in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated nationwide. (The gunman was killed by tactical officers.)
A person calendar year back: Civil legal rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama point out troopers in 1965 aided provoke opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a very long and celebrated profession in Congress, died at the age of 80.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Donald Sutherland is 86. Sportscaster Verne Lundquist is 81. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is 74. Rock musician Terry “Geezer” Butler is 72. Actor Lucie Arnaz is 70. Actor David Hasselhoff is 69. Rock musician Fran Smith Jr. (The Hooters) is 69. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is 67. Actor Tom Cullen is 36. Actor Brando Eaton is 35. R&B singer Jeremih (jehr-uh-MY’) is 34. Actor Summer Bishil is 33. Actor Billie Lourd is 29. Actor Leo Howard is 24.