This Day In History

On July 17
1815
Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the British at Rochefort, France.
1866
Authorization was given to build a tunnel beneath the Chicago River. The three year project cost $512,709
1867
Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. It was the first dental school in the U.S.
1917
The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.
1945
U.S. President 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. During the meeting Stalin made the comment that "Hitler had escaped."
1955
Disneyland opened their gates in Anaheim, CA.
1975
An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
1979
Nicaraguan President, Anastasio Somoza, resigned and fled to Miami in exile.
1985
My niece, Tiffany was born. Happy 21st Birthday!
1996
230 people were killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed off Long Island, NY.
1997
After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.
1998
Nicholas II, the last of Romanov czars, was buried in Russia 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
1998
An entire village was swept away in Papua New Guinea by a 23-foot wave that was triggered by an undersea earthquake. Eight days later the government reported that 1,500 people were dead, 2,000 were missing and thousands were homeless.