TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.

1453 - France defeated England at Castillon, France, which ended the 100 Years’ War.

1785 - France limited the importation of goods from Britain.

1799 - Matthew Flinders first sights and names Red Cliff Point, now Redcliffe, in Queensland.

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the British at Rochefort, France.

1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the US.

1881 - The University of Sydney becomes the first Australian university to accept women as students.

1900 - Sydney completes its Bubonic Plague Cleansing Operations.

1917 - The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.

1918 - Czar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife, children and several servants are executed during the Russian Revolution.

1976 - 25 African countries boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Montreal.

1998 - The International Criminal Court is established. Birthdays

John Astor 1762

Luis Munoz-Rivera 1859 Erle Stanley Gardner 1889 Berenice Abbott 1898 James Cagney 1899 Christina E. Stead 1902 William Gargan 1905

Art Linkletter 1912 Eleanor Steber 1916

Lou Boudreau 1917 Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian Gordon Gould 1920 Niccolo Castiglioni 1932 Mimi Hines 1933

Pat McCormick 1934 Donald Sutherland 1934 Actor

Camilla 1947 - Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Britain’s Prince Charles

Mick Tucker 1949 - Musician (Sweet)

Terence ‘Geezer’ Butler 1949 - Musician (Black Sabbath) Lucie Arnaz 1951 - Actress David Hasselhoff 1952 Actor, singer

Angela Merkel 1954 German Chancellor Nancy Giles 1960 Regina Belle 1963

Alex Winter 1965