Daily Calendar for Thursday, July 17, 2025

Born

  • John Jacob Astor (businessman) –
  • James Cagney (actor) –
  • Art Linkletter (television personality) –
  • Phyllis Diller (actress) –
  • Nils Bohlin (inventor of seat belts) –
  • Diahann Carroll (singer) –
  • Lucie Arnaz (actress, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) –
  • David Hasselhoff (actor) –
  • Mark Burnett (television producer) –
  • Bitty Schram (actress) –
  • Eric Moulds (football player) –
  • Luke Bryan (country singer) –

Died

  • Billie Holiday (jazz & blues singer) –
  • Ty Cobb (baseball player) –
  • Joseph Maher (actor) –
  • Hugh Reilly (actor) –
  • Walter Cronkite (newscaster) –
  • Morgan Paull (actor) –
  • John Robert Lewis (American politician; civil rights leader) –

Events

  • Florida formally ceded by Spain to the U.S.–
  • First photo taken of star other than Sun (Vega), Harvard College Observatory–
  • U.S. National Cemetery Act passed–
  • In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine established as the first university-based dental school in the U.S.–
  • Disneyland Park opened in Anaheim, California–
  • Contact with Surveyor 4 lost 2.5 minutes before Moon touchdown–
  • U.S. Apollo 18 and U.S.S.R. Soyuz 19 docked with each other in space marking the first such link-up between spacecrafts from the two nations–
  • Maiden flight of B-2 stealth bomber–
  • Two triple plays were made by the Minnesota Twins in a game against the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox won 1-0–
  • Last 400 Woolworth’s department stores closed–
  • Tsunami in Indonesia–

Weather

  • Atlanta, Georgia, received its 14th consecutive day of rain–

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