July 17: Feast day of the Scillitan Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church); Constitution Day in South Korea (1948)
Recovered TWA Flight 800 wreckage
- 1791 – French Revolution: Members of the National Guard fired into a large crowd that was gathered at the Champ de Mars, Paris to sign a petition demanding the removal of King Louis XVI.
- 1863 – The New Zealand Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.
- 1918 – RMS Carpathia, which had rescued the survivors of the RMS Titanic sinking, was itself sunk by a German U-boat.
- 1936 – Nationalist rebels attempted a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
- 1996 – TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air (wreckage pictured) and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
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