On This Day July 17th

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July 17th is the one-hundred-ninety-sixth day of the year, and there are 167 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music premiered.

1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette opened fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.

1821 – The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the United States.

1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.

1918 – Bolshevik Chekists execute Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

1945—World War II: Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin, the leaders of the Allied nations, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.

1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.

2018 – Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter.

 

Birthdays

1674 – Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (Joy to the World) and theologian (d. 1748)

1763 – John Jacob Astor, German American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1848)

1870 – Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (d. 1939)

1899 – James Cagney, American actor and dancer (d. 1986)

1912 – Art Linkletter, Canadian American radio and television host (d. 2010)

1917 – Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian, and voice artist (d. 2012)

1918 – Red Sovine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)

1949 – Geezer Butler, English bass player and songwriter.

1960 – Dawn Upshaw, American soprano.

1972 – Elizabeth Cook, American singer and guitarist.

1980 – Brett Goldstein, British actor, comedian, and writer.

 

Highlighted Holiday

NATIONAL TATTOO DAY

National Tattoo Day has only been celebrated for the past few years, but the art of tattooing has existed for millennia. Archaeological evidence shows that the ancient Egyptians practiced tattooing, and the ‘Iceman,’ or Ötzi, the natural mummy discovered in glacial ice in the Alps in 1991 and carbon-dated at 3250 B.C., bore 61 tattoos. Ancient tattooing was most widely practiced among the Austronesian-speaking peoples as far back as 1500 B.C. They practiced tattooing traditions, including facial tattoos, that some modern scientists allege were connected to headhunting among warring indigenous tribes. Fast forward to 17th-century Europe, ‘painted’ individuals were sometimes abducted from their native countries and put on public display, the European abductors collecting money for each viewing. The explorer William Dampier took his tattooed slave Jeoly, known as the ‘Painted Prince,’ on an extensive tour to show off and capitalize on Jeoly’s tattoos.

 

The first tattoo shop to open in the U.S. belonged to Martin Hildebrandt, who started his business in New York City in 1846 and was sought after by Union and Confederate soldiers alike. By 1975, only 40 tattoo artists were still operating in the U.S., but by 1980, that number had ballooned to 5,000. Today, tattoo shops are in every city and medium-sized town in the country, and on July 17, we honor their proprietors’ contributions to American culture.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Disneyland's Anniversary

International Firgun Day

National Hot Dog Day

National Peach Ice Cream Day

National Tattoo Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day

Victims of Baton Rouge, Louisiana Attack Day

World Day for International Criminal Justice

World Emoji Day

Wrong Way Corrigan Day

Yellow Pig Day

 

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