A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on July 17 throughout history.
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Six residents of Carthage, North Africa, are executed for being Christian, the earliest recorded instance of Christianity in the region
Siege of Constantinople begins during the Fourth Crusade, as Roman Catholic Crusaders, aboard a Venetian fleet, attack the city
Empress Catherine II becomes Tsarina of Russia after the death and rumored assassination of Tsar Peter III
The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists rebels.
Leaders Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold their first post World War II meeting at the Potsdam Conference
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is an American late-night news talk show hosted by Stephen Colbert, which premiered on September 8, 2015.
George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" premieres repeatedly on a barge cruising the River Thames in London
21st modern Olympic games open in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa
Prince David (4), heir to the Scottish throne marries Joan (7), Princess of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed
Isabeau of Bavaria (or Isabelle; also Elisabeth of Bavaria-Ingolstadt; c. 1370 – 24 September 1435) was Queen of France as the wife of King Charles VI from 1385 to 1422.
American movie actress Lana Turner (21) weds 2nd husband, American actor and restaurateur Steve Crane (annulled due to uncompleted divorce from prior marriage)
Sir Richard Starkey, known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles.
John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
St Leo IV dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope; he will be succeeded by Benedict III
Arnulf III the Hapless becomes Earl of Flanders
Pope bans Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
Illuminated Hebrew Bible, the "Rothschild Pentateuch", signed and completed by scribes Elijah ben Meshullam and Elijah ben Jehiel (now in the Getty Museum) [1]
Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
Charles VII, called the Victorious or the Well-Served, was King of France from 1422 to his death in 1461.
Battle of Castillon: French army beats English force under John Talbot, turning point of the Hundred Years' War
Venice recaptures nearby Italian city of Padua
Jews are expelled from Ghent, Belgium
Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
Spanish and Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
At 10:30 am, Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya (Arctic Ocean)
A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defense, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.
Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurred in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, between Camp Hill station (known as Sandy Run, Camp Hill, Sellwick and finally Fellwick station before being closed in...
Recovery of the bell of HMS Lutine from ship's wreck, hung from rostrum in Lloyd's of London's Underwriting Room
At Manassas, Virginia General Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, General Johnston is ordered to Manassas
The Battle of Honey Springs, also known as the Affair at Elk Creek, on July 17, 1863, was an American Civil War engagement and an important victory for Union forces in their efforts to gain control...
John Bell Hood (June 1 or June 29, 1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Hood's education at the United States Military Academy led to a career as a junior...
Italian fleet under Admiral Count Carlo Pellion di Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa
1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott ceding sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government, Southern Africa
1st railroad opens in Hawaii
Arthur Shrewsbury (11 April 1856 – 19 May 1903) was an English cricketer and rugby football administrator. He was widely rated as competing with W. G.
1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia
The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government
Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
International Amateur Athletic Federation forms in Stockholm, Sweden (now known as World Athletics)
The Battles of the Isonzo (also known as the Isonzo Front by historians, or the Soča Front; Slovene: soška fronta) were a series of twelve battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in...
Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
The Kingdom of Finland (Finnish: Suomen kuningaskunta; Swedish: Konungariket Finland; 1918–1919) was a failed attempt to establish a monarchy in Finland in the aftermath of the Finnish Declaration of...
Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
Carl William Mays (November 12, 1891 – April 4, 1971) was an American baseball pitcher who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1929.
St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
International relations (1919–1939) covers the main interactions shaping world history in this era, known as the interwar period, with emphasis on diplomacy and economic relations.
After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Germany under mysterious circumstances
Variety is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville.
Elmer Fudd, originally Egghead, is a Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, first debuting as Egghead in "Egghead Rides Again"
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan leaves New York flying for Los Angeles and winds up in Ireland supposedly by mistake
3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.
Nazareth is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. In 2023 its population was 77,208.
Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered
1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
Arco, Idaho, becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. Located within the geo-political region of the Middle East, it is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Turkey to the north, Iran to...
John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 – July 12, 1996) was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in television news.
Robert White in X-15 sets an altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
WTSP (channel 10) is a television station in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, serving the Tampa Bay area as an affiliate of CBS. The station is owned by Tegna Inc.
James Ronald Ryun is an American former Republican politician and Olympic track and field athlete, who at his peak was widely considered the world's top middle-distance runner.
Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour, after playing 7 of a planned 29 shows
The November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état took place between November 13 and November 18, 1963, when, following internal party divisions, pro-Nasserist Iraqi officers led a military coup within the Ba'ath...
30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
First two women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
Military coup in Afghanistan, led by former prime minister, and cousin to the king, Mohammad Daoud Khan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah remains in Italy were he was receiving medical treatment at the time
Robert Gibson (November 9, 1935 – October 2, 2020), nicknamed "Gibby" and "Hoot", was an American baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career for the St.
Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; attack the first major breach of a February truce
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America.
Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23-year-old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22)
The prime minister of France (French: Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic (Premier ministre de la République française), is the nominal head of government...
10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
Stealth aircraft are designed to avoid detection using a variety of technologies that reduce reflection or avoiding being successfully targeted by radar guided weapons.
Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
Slovak parliament declares independence from Czechoslovakia, beginning the so-called Velvet Divorce
Graeme Obree breaks the world hour cycling record, riding 51.596km on Old Faithful at the Hamar velodrome in Norway [1]
A French 4-year-old boy becomes Buddhist Lama Tulku Kalou Rinpoche
Paris-bound flight TWA 800, explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board the Boeing 747
STS 94 (Columbia 23) lands
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when...
TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with estimated 199 deaths.
Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners
The 2012 Wicksburg nightclub shooting occurred on August 9, 2012, when 22-year-old Ryan Clark Petersen armed himself with a gun and fired multiple shots in a nightclub in Wicksburg, Alabama, United...
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist...
Kermit the Frog is a Muppet character created in 1955 and originally performed by Jim Henson.
Australian basketball center Liz Cambage scores 53 points as the Dallas Wings beat the NY Liberty 104-87 to set new WNBA single game scoring record
Bulgaria announces 5 million people, virtually every adult, has had their personal information exposed after national tax agency hacked
India becomes the third country to record 1 million cases of COVID-19, 56% concentrated in Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu
73rd Cannes Film Festival: Titane wins Palme d'Or, its director Frenchwoman Julie Ducournau only 2nd woman to win
Russia pulls out of a deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain past their naval blockade, threatening to push world food prices higher [1]
Cavan Sullivan of the Philadelphia Union becomes the youngest player in a Major League Soccer match and the youngest to debut in any major North American professional sports league at 14 years and 293 days old in a 5-1 win over the New England Revolution at Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania
British government announces the voting age will be lowered to 16 years old across the UK in time for the next general election [1]
Gordon Gould, American physicist, known for american physicist, was born on 1920-07-17.
Camilla Parker Bowles is born
Angela Merkel is born
Phyllis Diller, American comedian and actress, known for american comedian and actress, was born on 1917-07-17.
David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and television personality, known for american actor, singer, and television personality, was born on 1953-07-17.
Mark Burnett is born
Luke Bryan, American country singer, known for american country singer, was born on 1977-07-17. Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan is an American country music singer, songwriter, and television personality.
Toni Stone, American athlete, known for female negro league baseball player, was born on 1921-07-17.
Matti Nykänen, Finnish athlete, known for finnish ski jumper, was born on 1963-07-17. Matti Ensio Nykänen was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991.
Bryan Trottier, American athlete, known for canadian and american ice hockey player and coach, was born on 1957-07-17.
Six residents of Carthage, North Africa, are executed for being Christian, the earliest recorded instance of Christianity in the region
John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
St Leo IV dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope; he will be succeeded by Benedict III
Arnulf III the Hapless becomes Earl of Flanders
Siege of Constantinople begins during the Fourth Crusade, as Roman Catholic Crusaders, aboard a Venetian fleet, attack the city
Pope bans Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
Illuminated Hebrew Bible, the "Rothschild Pentateuch", signed and completed by scribes Elijah ben Meshullam and Elijah ben Jehiel (now in the Getty Museum) [1]
Prince David (4), heir to the Scottish throne marries Joan (7), Princess of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed
Isabeau of Bavaria (or Isabelle; also Elisabeth of Bavaria-Ingolstadt; c. 1370 – 24 September 1435) was Queen of France as the wife of King Charles VI from 1385 to 1422.
Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
Charles VII, called the Victorious or the Well-Served, was King of France from 1422 to his death in 1461.
Battle of Castillon: French army beats English force under John Talbot, turning point of the Hundred Years' War
Venice recaptures nearby Italian city of Padua
Jews are expelled from Ghent, Belgium
Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
Spanish and Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
At 10:30 am, Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya (Arctic Ocean)
A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defense, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" premieres repeatedly on a barge cruising the River Thames in London
Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
Empress Catherine II becomes Tsarina of Russia after the death and rumored assassination of Tsar Peter III
Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.
Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurred in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, between Camp Hill station (known as Sandy Run, Camp Hill, Sellwick and finally Fellwick station before being closed in...
Recovery of the bell of HMS Lutine from ship's wreck, hung from rostrum in Lloyd's of London's Underwriting Room
At Manassas, Virginia General Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, General Johnston is ordered to Manassas
The Battle of Honey Springs, also known as the Affair at Elk Creek, on July 17, 1863, was an American Civil War engagement and an important victory for Union forces in their efforts to gain control...
John Bell Hood (June 1 or June 29, 1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Hood's education at the United States Military Academy led to a career as a junior...
Italian fleet under Admiral Count Carlo Pellion di Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa
1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott ceding sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government, Southern Africa
1st railroad opens in Hawaii
Arthur Shrewsbury (11 April 1856 – 19 May 1903) was an English cricketer and rugby football administrator. He was widely rated as competing with W. G.
1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia
The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government
Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
International Amateur Athletic Federation forms in Stockholm, Sweden (now known as World Athletics)
The Battles of the Isonzo (also known as the Isonzo Front by historians, or the Soča Front; Slovene: soška fronta) were a series of twelve battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in...
Phyllis Diller, American comedian and actress, known for american comedian and actress, was born on 1917-07-17.
The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia
Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
The Kingdom of Finland (Finnish: Suomen kuningaskunta; Swedish: Konungariket Finland; 1918–1919) was a failed attempt to establish a monarchy in Finland in the aftermath of the Finnish Declaration of...
Gordon Gould, American physicist, known for american physicist, was born on 1920-07-17.
Toni Stone, American athlete, known for female negro league baseball player, was born on 1921-07-17.
Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
Carl William Mays (November 12, 1891 – April 4, 1971) was an American baseball pitcher who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1929.
St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
International relations (1919–1939) covers the main interactions shaping world history in this era, known as the interwar period, with emphasis on diplomacy and economic relations.
After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Germany under mysterious circumstances
Variety is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville.
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists rebels.
Elmer Fudd, originally Egghead, is a Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, first debuting as Egghead in "Egghead Rides Again"
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan leaves New York flying for Los Angeles and winds up in Ireland supposedly by mistake
American movie actress Lana Turner (21) weds 2nd husband, American actor and restaurateur Steve Crane (annulled due to uncompleted divorce from prior marriage)
3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.
Leaders Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold their first post World War II meeting at the Potsdam Conference
Nazareth is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. In 2023 its population was 77,208.
Camilla Parker Bowles is born
Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered
David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and television personality, known for american actor, singer, and television personality, was born on 1953-07-17.
1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
Arco, Idaho, becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
Angela Merkel is born
Bryan Trottier, American athlete, known for canadian and american ice hockey player and coach, was born on 1957-07-17.
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. Located within the geo-political region of the Middle East, it is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Turkey to the north, Iran to...
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.
John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 – July 12, 1996) was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in television news.
Mark Burnett is born
Robert White in X-15 sets an altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
Matti Nykänen, Finnish athlete, known for finnish ski jumper, was born on 1963-07-17. Matti Ensio Nykänen was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991.
WTSP (channel 10) is a television station in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, serving the Tampa Bay area as an affiliate of CBS. The station is owned by Tegna Inc.
James Ronald Ryun is an American former Republican politician and Olympic track and field athlete, who at his peak was widely considered the world's top middle-distance runner.
Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour, after playing 7 of a planned 29 shows
The November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état took place between November 13 and November 18, 1963, when, following internal party divisions, pro-Nasserist Iraqi officers led a military coup within the Ba'ath...
30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
First two women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
Military coup in Afghanistan, led by former prime minister, and cousin to the king, Mohammad Daoud Khan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah remains in Italy were he was receiving medical treatment at the time
Robert Gibson (November 9, 1935 – October 2, 2020), nicknamed "Gibby" and "Hoot", was an American baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career for the St.
Sir Richard Starkey, known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles.
Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; attack the first major breach of a February truce
21st modern Olympic games open in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa
Luke Bryan, American country singer, known for american country singer, was born on 1977-07-17. Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan is an American country music singer, songwriter, and television personality.
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America.
Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23-year-old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22)
The prime minister of France (French: Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic (Premier ministre de la République française), is the nominal head of government...
10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
Stealth aircraft are designed to avoid detection using a variety of technologies that reduce reflection or avoiding being successfully targeted by radar guided weapons.
Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
Slovak parliament declares independence from Czechoslovakia, beginning the so-called Velvet Divorce
Graeme Obree breaks the world hour cycling record, riding 51.596km on Old Faithful at the Hamar velodrome in Norway [1]
A French 4-year-old boy becomes Buddhist Lama Tulku Kalou Rinpoche
Paris-bound flight TWA 800, explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board the Boeing 747
STS 94 (Columbia 23) lands
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when...
TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with estimated 199 deaths.
Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners
The 2012 Wicksburg nightclub shooting occurred on August 9, 2012, when 22-year-old Ryan Clark Petersen armed himself with a gun and fired multiple shots in a nightclub in Wicksburg, Alabama, United...
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist...
Kermit the Frog is a Muppet character created in 1955 and originally performed by Jim Henson.
Australian basketball center Liz Cambage scores 53 points as the Dallas Wings beat the NY Liberty 104-87 to set new WNBA single game scoring record
Bulgaria announces 5 million people, virtually every adult, has had their personal information exposed after national tax agency hacked
India becomes the third country to record 1 million cases of COVID-19, 56% concentrated in Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu
73rd Cannes Film Festival: Titane wins Palme d'Or, its director Frenchwoman Julie Ducournau only 2nd woman to win
Russia pulls out of a deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain past their naval blockade, threatening to push world food prices higher [1]
Cavan Sullivan of the Philadelphia Union becomes the youngest player in a Major League Soccer match and the youngest to debut in any major North American professional sports league at 14 years and 293 days old in a 5-1 win over the New England Revolution at Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is an American late-night news talk show hosted by Stephen Colbert, which premiered on September 8, 2015.
British government announces the voting age will be lowered to 16 years old across the UK in time for the next general election [1]