The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake took place in the early evening of Friday, 17 July 1998. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Papua_New_Guinea_earthquake
Little Feller I nuclear test was undertaken by the United States at the Nevada Test Site on July 17, 1962.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t50042970/little-feller-i/RMS Carpathia was sunk in the Atlantic on July 17, 1918 during World War I by a German U-boat.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_CarpathiaThe Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion that occurred on July 17, 1944http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster
On July 17th 1955, 26000 lbs of high explosives detonated under Vimy Ridgehttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49880106/1955-vimy-ridge-explosion/
The Killarney Provincial Park Observatory opened on July 17, 2010http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killarney_Provincial_Park_Observatory
On July 17, 1929, Robert H. Goddard launched the Goddard 3 rockethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard#Launch_HistoryThe Vela 3 and 4 satellites were launched on the 17th July 1964http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/vela.htmThe historic Soyuz and Apollo handshake over the town of Metz in France on the 17th July 1975https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5C8ysmLUU0Soyuz T-12 (also known as Salyut 7 EP-4) was launched on the 17th July 1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-12The British UoSAT-5, also known as UO-22 and OSCAR 22, satellite was launched on the 17th July 1991 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UoSAT-5IRIS solar space observatory achieved first light on July 17, 2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Region_Imaging_Spectrograph
Elizabeth Klarer claimed to have had an alien close encounter in the Drakensberg Mountains on July 17, 1955http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Klarer
Louis William Butterworth (1948. 17 July 17 in Casper, Wyoming - ) is an American engineer and astronaut.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58079597/louis-william-butterworth/Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov (b. July 17, 1929) is professor at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_K._GodunovGordon Gould (July 17, 1920 - September 16, 2005) was an American physicist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_GouldMonsignor Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaître (17 July 1894 - 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomerhttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49722390/georges-lematre-1894-1966/
Barnaba Oriani (July 17, 1752 - November 12, 1832) was an Italian priest, geodesist, astronomer and scientist.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaba_OrianiWendy Laurel Freedman (born July 17, 1957) is a Canadian-American astronomer, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Freedman
RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t50043146/robocop-fiction-action-film/
'Emergency - Ward 10' showed the first interracial kiss on television on 17 July 1964 .http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t60901840/first-kiss/
NGC 6823 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 17th July 1785.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48756934/ngc-6823/NGC 6834 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 17th July 1784.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58080110/ngc-6834/NGC 6847 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 17th July 1784.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58080097/ngc-6847/NGC 6894 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 17th July 1784.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58080094/ngc-6894/NGC 6940 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 17th July 1784.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3074001/ngc-6940/NGC 7013 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 17th July 1784.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58080079/ngc-7013/
A stellar flare on Barnard's Star was observed on July 17, 1998http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s_Star#The_flare_in_1998Trans-Neptunian Object 2007 OR10 was discovered in 2007.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t37107799/tno-225088-2007-or10/
The Perseids are active between July 17 - August 24http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3612730/perseid-meteor-shower/Low Flying Meteor Passes Over Chaplin, 1940http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58079903/chaplin-meteor-1940/The Block Island meteorite was found on Mars by the Opportunity rover on the 17th July 2009.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Island_meteorite
MeteoritesThe Cereseto (H5 chondrite) meteorite fell in Piemonte, Italy, on the 17th July, 1840.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t37075328/cereseto-meteorite/The Mount Browne (H6 chondrite) meteorite fell in New South Wales, Australia, on the 17th July, 1902.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43941961/mount-browne-meteorite/The Nyirábrany (LL5 chondrite) meteorite fell in Hajdu-Bihar, Hungary, on the 17th July, 1914.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43941967/nyirbrany-meteorite/The Majorca (Doubtful Iron) meteorite fell in Isles Baleares, Spain, on the 17th July, 1935.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43941974/majorca-meteorite/The Gorlovka (H3.7 chondrite) meteorite fell in Donetsk, Ukraine, on the 17th July, 1974.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43941980/gorlovka-meteorite/(Horlivka July 17, 1974 Ukraine Donetsk H3)The Thika (L6) meteorite fell in Kenya, on the 17th July, 2011.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43946406/kilimambogo/The Montney (stone) meteorite fell in Canada, on the 17th July, 2005.http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3647943/fort-st-john-meteorite/