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Today is Friday, July 17, the 198th day of 2026. There are 167 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

Read more Stuck in one of Colorado\u2019s abandoned missile silos? This fire department will now charge $5,000 to rescue you.<\/a><\/p>\n

Today in History:<\/h4>\n

On July 17, 1918, Russia\u2019s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1862, during the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all enslaved people taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free.<\/p>\n

In 1902, Willis Carrier produced a set of designs for what would become the world\u2019s first modern air-conditioning system.<\/p>\n

In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.<\/p>\n

In 1944, during World War II, 320 men, two-thirds of them African Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.<\/p>\n

In 1945, following Nazi Germany\u2019s surrender, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.<\/p>\n

In 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, after its $17 million, yearlong construction; the park drew a million visitors in its first 10 weeks.<\/p>\n

Read more Man dies in Denver police custody after attempted carjacking, fight, department says<\/a><\/p>\n

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In 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.<\/p>\n

In 1981, 114 people were killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a tea dance.<\/p>\n

In 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Europe-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, New York, shortly after departing John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board.<\/p>\n

In 2014, all 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine; both Ukraine\u2019s government and pro-Russian separatists denied responsibility.<\/p>\n

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In 2020, civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died at age 80.<\/p>\n

In 2022, a report said nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting that left 21 people dead at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, but \u201cegregiously poor decision-making\u201d resulted in a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman was finally confronted and killed.<\/p>\n

Read more Denver man facing murder charge in pregnant wife\u2019s death told police he was \u2018possibly brainwashed\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n
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  • Former sportscaster Verne Lundquist is 86.<\/li>\n
  • Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom is 79.<\/li>\n
  • Rock musician Terry \u201cGeezer\u201d Butler is 77.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Lucie Arnaz is 75.<\/li>\n
  • Actor David Hasselhoff is 74.<\/li>\n
  • Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is 72.<\/li>\n
  • Film director Wong Kar-wai is 68.<\/li>\n
  • Television producer Mark Burnett is 66.<\/li>\n
  • Singer Regina Belle is 63.<\/li>\n
  • Country music artist Craig Morgan is 62.<\/li>\n
  • Rock musician Lou Barlow is 60.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Bitty Schram (TV: \u201cMonk\u201d) is 58.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Jason Clarke is 57.<\/li>\n
  • Movie director F. Gary Gray is 57.<\/li>\n
  • Country singer Luke Bryan is 50.<\/li>\n
  • Film director\/screenwriter Justine Triet is 48.<\/li>\n
  • R&B singer Jeremih (jehr-uh-MY\u2019) is 39.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Billie Lourd is 34.<\/li>\n
  • NHL center Connor Bedard is 21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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