Daily Calendar for July 17th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1760s

• Born 1763: John Jacob Astor (businessman)

1820s

• 1821: Florida formally ceded by Spain to the U.S.200 Years Ago

1850s

• 1850: First photo taken of star other than Sun (Vega), Harvard College Observatory

1860s

• 1862: U.S. National Cemetery Act passed

• 1867: In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine established as the first university-based dental school in the U.S.

1890s

• Born 1899: James Cagney (actor)

1910s

• Born 1912: Art Linkletter (television personality)

• Born 1917: Phyllis Diller (actress)

1920s

• Born 1920: Nils Bohlin (inventor of seat belts)

1930s

• Born 1935: Diahann Carroll (singer)

1950s

• Born 1951: Lucie Arnaz (actress, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz)

• Born 1952: David Hasselhoff (actor)

• 1955: Disneyland Park opened in Anaheim, California

• Died 1959: Billie Holiday (jazz & blues singer)

1960s

• Born 1960: Mark Burnett (television producer)

• Died 1961: Ty Cobb (baseball player)

• 1967: Contact with Surveyor 4 lost 2.5 minutes before Moon touchdown

• Born 1968: Bitty Schram (actress)

1970s

• Born 1973: Eric Moulds (football player)

• 1975: 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

1980s

• 1989: Maiden flight of B-2 stealth bomber

1990s

• 1990: Two triple plays were made by the Minnesota Twins in a game against the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox won 1-0

• 1997: Last 400 Woolworth's department stores closed

• Died 1998: Joseph Maher (actor)

• Died 1998: Hugh Reilly (actor)

2000s

• 2006: Tsunami in Indonesia

• Died 2009: Walter Cronkite (newscaster)

2010s

• Died 2012: Morgan Paull (actor)

2020s

• Died 2020: John Robert Lewis (American politician; civil rights leader)