As we speak is Thursday, July 17, the 198th day of 2025. There are 167 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, after its $17 million, yearlong development; the park drew one million guests in its first 10 weeks.
Additionally on this date:
In 1862, through the Civil Conflict, Congress accepted the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that every one slaves taking refuge behind Union strains had been to be let loose.
In 1902, Willis Service produced a set of designs for what would develop into the world’s first fashionable air-conditioning system.
In 1918, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his household had been executed by the Bolsheviks.
In 1936, the Spanish Civil Conflict started as right-wing military generals launched a coup try in opposition to the Second Spanish Republic.
In 1944, throughout World Conflict II, 320 males, two-thirds of them African-Individuals, had been killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded on the Port Chicago Naval Journal in California.
In 1945, following Nazi Germany’s give up, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet chief Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill started assembly at Potsdam within the last Allied summit of World Conflict II.
In 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit within the first superpower link-up of its form.
In 1981, 114 folks had been killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the foyer of the Kansas Metropolis Hyatt Regency Lodge collapsed throughout a tea dance.
In 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Europe-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Lengthy Island, New York, shortly after departing John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport, killing all 230 folks on board.
In 2014, all 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airways Flight 17 had been killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over rebel-held jap Ukraine; each Ukraine’s authorities and pro-Russian separatists denied duty.
In 2020, civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped provoke opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a protracted and celebrated profession in Congress, died at age 80.
In 2022, a report stated almost 400 legislation enforcement officers rushed to a mass taking pictures that left 21 folks useless at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, however “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in a chaotic scene that lasted greater than an hour earlier than the gunman was lastly confronted and killed.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Former sportscaster Verne Lundquist is 85.
- Queen Camilla of the UK is 78.
- Rock musician Terry “Geezer” Butler is 76.
- Actor Lucie Arnaz is 74.
- Actor David Hasselhoff is 73.
- Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is 71.
- Movie director Wong Kar-wai is 67.
- Tv producer Mark Burnett is 65.
- Singer Regina Belle is 62.
- Nation music artist Craig Morgan is 61.
- Rock musician Lou Barlow is 59.
- Actor Bitty Schram (TV: “Monk”) is 57.
- Actor Jason Clarke is 56.
- Film director F. Gary Grey is 56.
- Nation singer Luke Bryan is 49.
- Movie director/screenwriter Justine Triet is 47.
- R&B singer Jeremih (jehr-uh-MY’) is 38.
- Actor Billie Lourd is 33.
- NHL heart Connor Bedard is 20.
