Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 17

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 * 1453 – The Battle of Castillon, the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all holdings in France except the Pale of Calais.
 * 1771 – Dene men, acting as guides to Samuel Hearne on his exploration of the Coppermine River in present-day Nunavut, Canada, massacred a group of about twenty Copper Inuit.
 * 1863 – The New Zealand Wars resumed as British forces led by General Duncan Cameron began the invasion of the Waikato.
 * 1918 – RMS Carpathia, which had rescued survivors of the 1912 Titanic sinking, was sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of five crew.
 * 1968 – Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif in a bloodless coup.
 * 1981 – A structural failure caused a walkway at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., to collapse (damage pictured), killing 114 people and injuring 216 others.
 * 1992 – The Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom, was officially opened.
 * 1996 – TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
 * 2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overran the runway at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 199 people.


 * Born/died this day: | Edward the Elder|d|924| Empress Dowager Du |d|961| Sverker II of Sweden |d|1210| Jadwiga of Poland|d|1399| Eunice Newton Foote |b|1819| Maurycy Gottlieb |d|1879| James Somerville |b|1882| Rainilaiarivony|d|1896| Eleanor Hadley |b|1916| Tatiana Nikolaevna |d|1918| Mary Osborne |b|1921|  Florence Fuller |d|1946| Queen Camilla|b|1947| Barbara Rae-Venter|b|1948| Angela Merkel|b|1954| Wong Kar-wai |b|1958| António Costa |b|1961| David Kelly|d|2003| Otto Piene|d|2014|