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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_17" title="July 17">July 17</a></b>:  <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Day" title="Marine Day">Marine Day</a></b> in Japan (2023); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Day_(South_Korea)" title="Constitution Day (South Korea)">Constitution Day</a></b> in South Korea (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Emoji_Day" title="World Emoji Day">World Emoji Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1771" title="1771">1771</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dene" title="Dene">Dene</a> men, acting as guides to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hearne" title="Samuel Hearne">Samuel Hearne</a> on his exploration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppermine_River" title="Coppermine River">Coppermine River</a> in present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a>, Canada, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Falls_massacre" title="Bloody Falls massacre">massacred a group</a></b> of about twenty <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Inuit" title="Copper Inuit">Copper Inuit</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1863" title="1863">1863</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Wars" title="New Zealand Wars">New Zealand Wars</a> resumed as British forces led by General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Cameron_(British_Army_officer)" title="Duncan Cameron (British Army officer)">Duncan Cameron</a> began the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Waikato" title="Invasion of the Waikato">invasion of the Waikato</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a>: Tsar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia" title="Nicholas II of Russia">Nicholas II</a> and his family <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_the_Romanov_family" title="Murder of the Romanov family">were murdered</a></b> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks" title="Bolsheviks">Bolsheviks</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterinburg" title="Yekaterinburg">Yekaterinburg</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – Led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Hassan_al-Bakr" title="Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr">Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%27ath_Party" title="Ba'ath Party">Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party</a> overthrew Iraqi president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Arif" title="Abdul Rahman Arif">Abdul Rahman Arif</a> in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17_July_Revolution" title="17 July Revolution">a bloodless coup</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAM_Airlines_Flight_3054" title="TAM Airlines Flight 3054">TAM Airlines Flight 3054</a></b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runway_excursion" title="Runway excursion">overran the runway</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo%E2%80%93Congonhas_Airport" title="São Paulo–Congonhas Airport">Congonhas Airport</a> in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 199 people.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadwiga_of_Poland" title="Jadwiga of Poland">Jadwiga of Poland</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1399); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainilaiarivony" title="Rainilaiarivony">Rainilaiarivony</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1896); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rae-Venter" title="Barbara Rae-Venter">Barbara Rae-Venter</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1948); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)" title="David Kelly (weapons expert)">David Kelly</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2003)</p>