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Learn about the most intriguing events and historical facts that occurred on July 17 throughout history. In the Gregorian calendar, July 17th is the 198th day of the year. The siege of Constantinople begins on this day during the fourth Crusade, and 25 African teams (later increased to 33 nations) boycott the 21st modern Olympic games in Montreal because New Zealand is playing rugby in apartheid South Africa.
The 17th of July falls under the sign of Cancer. Angela Merkel, Camilla, Duchess of Cambridge, and Luke Bryan all have famous birthdays. It’s World Emoji Day today. (July 17, 1902) (July 17, 1936) (July 17, 1938) (July 17, 2014) (July 17, 2020) (Died on July 17, 2020)
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In Buffalo, New York, Willis Carrier manufactures the first air conditioner. 
This day in 1936, Nationalist rebels launched a well-planned insurrection against the Republican government of Spain, initiating a brutal civil war that lasted until 1939, when the Nationalists and Francisco Franco took power. 
Douglas Corrigan departs from Brooklyn and flies the "wrong way" to Ireland, earning him the nickname "Wrong Way" Corrigan. 
After being shot down, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia. All 298 passengers are killed. 
John Lewis, an American civil rights leader and politician who helped lead the march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, which was a watershed moment in the history of the civil rights movement, died at the age of 80.
John Lewis, American Politician and Civil Rights Leader. (b. 1940).
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