Daily Calendar for Friday, July 17, 2026
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Friday, July 17, 2026
Born
- John Jacob Astor (businessman) –
- James Cagney (actor) –
- Art Linkletter (television personality) –
- Phyllis Diller (actress) –
- Nils Bohlin (inventor of seat belts) –
- Diahann Carroll (singer) –
- Lucie Arnaz (actress, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) –
- David Hasselhoff (actor) –
- Mark Burnett (television producer) –
- Bitty Schram (actress) –
- Eric Moulds (football player) –
- Luke Bryan (country singer) –
Died
- Billie Holiday (jazz & blues singer) –
- Ty Cobb (baseball player) –
- John Coltrane (American saxophonist; died in Huntington, New York) –
- Joseph Maher (actor) –
- Hugh Reilly (actor) –
- Walter Cronkite (newscaster) –
- Morgan Paull (actor) –
- John Robert Lewis (American politician; civil rights leader) –
Events
- Florida formally ceded by Spain to the U.S. –
- First photo taken of star other than Sun (Vega), Harvard College Observatory –
- U.S. National Cemetery Act passed –
- In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine established as the first university-based dental school in the U.S. –
- Disneyland Park opened in Anaheim, California –
- Contact with Surveyor 4 lost 2.5 minutes before Moon touchdown –
- 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 –
- Maiden flight of B-2 stealth bomber –
- Two triple plays were made by the Minnesota Twins in a game against the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox won 1-0 –
- Last 400 Woolworth’s department stores closed –
- Tsunami in Indonesia –
Weather
- Atlanta, Georgia, received its 14th consecutive day of rain –