WEDNESDAY, July 17, 2024

1549 -Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium

1867-First permanent university dental school in U.S., Harvard

1948-Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of (South) Korea

1954-Construction begins on Disneyland

1959-Tibet abolishes serfdom

1968-Revolt in Iraq

1970-30,000 attend Randall’s Island Rock Festival, NYC

1972-First 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico

1975-Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make first US/USSR linkup in space

1979-Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo

1981-Humbar Estuary Bridge, U.K., world’s longest span (1.4 km), opens

1984-Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7

1988-Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 39 degrees Celsius

1990-Hussein’s Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq