Today in History
17 July
203 births · 135 deaths · 45 events recorded
Notable Births
All 203 ›
Connor Bedard
b. 2005
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2005)
Jordan Lawlar
b. 2002
American baseball player (born 2002)
OG Anunoby
b. 1997
British basketball player (born 1997)
Wonwoo
b. 1996
South Korean rapper and singer (born 1996)
Kali Uchis
b. 1994
American singer and songwriter (born 1994)
Connie Hawkins
b. 1942
American basketball player (1942–2017)
Paul Delaroche
b. 1797
French painter (1797–1856)
John Jacob Astor
b. 1763
German-born American businessman (1763–1848)
Notable Deaths
All 135 ›
Felix Baumgartner
d. 2025
Austrian skydiver and extreme sportsman (1969–2025)
Alan and Marilyn Bergman
d. 2025
American lyricists and songwriters
Joanna Kołaczkowska
d. 2025
Polish actress (1966–2025)
Bernice Johnson Reagon
d. 2024
American singer, songwriter and scholar (1942–2024)
Cheng Pei-pei
d. 2024
Chinese actress (1946–2024)
Pat Williams (basketball)
d. 2024
American basketball player (1940–2024)
John Lewis
d. 2020
American politician and civil rights leader (1940–2020)
Adam Smith
d. 1790
Scottish economist and philosopher (1723–1790)
On This Day in History
All 45 ›2015
At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
2015 Khan Bani Saad bombing
2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
2014
A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
Transport express régional
2014
Eric Garner is killed by police officer Daniel Pantaleo in New York City, after the latter put him in a prohibited chokehold while arresting him.
Killing of Eric Garner
2007
TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
TAM Airlines Flight 3054
2006
The 7.7 Mw Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami
2000
During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, India, killing 60 people.
Jay Prakash Narayan Airport
1998
The 7.0 Mw Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake