History for July 17

History for July 17 - On-This-Day.com:
James Cagney 1899, Art Linkletter 1912, Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian



Donald Sutherland 1934 - Actor, Lucie Arnaz 1951 - Actress, Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor


1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.


1453 - France defeated England at Castillon, France, which ended the 100 Years' War.


1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.


1917 - The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.


1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. During the meeting Stalin made the comment that "Hitler had escaped."


1960 - Francis Gary Powers pled guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.


1975 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and Soviet Union.


1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.