On this day: July 17

July 17: Feast day of the Scillitan Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church); Eid al-Fitr (Islam, 2015); Constitution Day in South Korea (1948)

• 1771 – Dene men, acting as guides to Samuel Hearne on his exploration of the Coppermine River in present-day Nunavut, Canada, massacred a group of about 20 Copper Inuit.
• 1863 – The New Zealand Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.
• 1945 – Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry S. Truman (all three pictured), leaders of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States respectively, met in Potsdam to decide what should be done with post-war Germany.
• 1973 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last King of Afghanistan, was ousted in a coup by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
• 2009 – Two suicide bombers detonate themselves at two separate hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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