CoM Moderators Posted July 17 Posted July 17 1712 - Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th] 1912 - International Amateur Athletic Federation forms in Stockholm, Sweden (now known as World Athletics) 1925 - Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits 1944 - WWII: Port Chicago Disaster - explosion during munition loading kills 322 and, injures nearly 400, destroys three ships and a pier at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California; conditions inspire the Port Chicago Mutiny later that summer 1954 - Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany 1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands 1970 - 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC 1974 - Bob Gibson becomes second pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters (Cesar Geronimo) 1997 - STS 94 (Columbia 23) lands 2016 - 17 works by Swiss architect Le Corbusier included in UNESCO World Heritage sites list as "an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement" More Historical Events »
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