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July 17th -

Events -

# 1941 - Joe DiMaggio's baseball hitting streak ends at 56 games, by Cleveland Indian pitchers, Al Smith & Jim Bagby
# 1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California
# 1989 - First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
# 1996 - Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
# 1997 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
# 1998 - Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.
# 2007 - TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashed upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.

Births -

1899 - James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
1917 - Phyllis Diller, American comedian
1917 - Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
1926 - Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
1935 - Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
1941 - Daryle Lamonica, American football player
1942 - Don Kessinger, baseball player
1947 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
1952 - David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician
1956 - Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 - Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
1973 - Eric Moulds, American football player
1977 - Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
1978 - Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler (Mike Knox of ECW formerly)
1980 - Ryan Miller, NHL hockey player
1983 - Adam Lind, American baseball player
1989 - Nicholas Malone, American Sports/Pro Wrestling Broadcaster

Deaths [

1918 (N.S.) - Family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)

* Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna (b. 1872)
* Grand Duchess Olga (b. 1895)
* Grand Duchess Tatiana (b. 1897)
* Grand Duchess Maria (b. 1899)
* Grand Duchess Anastasia (b. 1901)
* Tsarevich Alexei (b. 1904)

1959 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball player (b. 1886)
1967 - John Coltrane, American musician (b. 1926)
1974 - Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b. 1910)
1988 - Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
2004 - Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
2006 - Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)