17 July
The major events of July 17 in Indian and World History are as follows:
1429 - Dopin was crowned as King of France.
1453 - French forces defeated England in the First Battle of Castilian.
1489 - Nizam Khan was declared the sultan of Delhi under the name of Sikandar Shah Lodi II.
1549 - Jews were expelled from the Gentile territory of the European country of Belgium.
1712- England, Portugal and France signed a ceasefire proposal.
1850 - Howard Observatory took the first photograph of the star.
1893 - Arthur Shrewsbury of England becomes the first cricketer to score 1,000 runs in Test cricket.
1898 - The Spanish army self-propelled to the US in the Santiago region of Cuba
1906 - Clement Armand Faliers is elected President of France.
1919 - The Constitution was adopted in Finland
1929 - Soviet Union broke diplomatic relations with China
1943 - Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) attacked the Pinnamonde rocket base of Germany.
1944 - Two US ships fired by ammunition near California in the US killed 322 people.
1948 - Women in India are considered eligible for recruitment in all public services including IAS and IPS.
1950 - India's first passenger plane crash happened near the city of Pathankot in Punjab.
1980 - Jenko Suzuki becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
1981 - Israel destroys al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon's capital.
1987 - Diplomatic relations between Iran and France broken.
1995 - Forbes Magazine has announced Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world's richest person.
2013 - 58 people killed in floods in Sichuan province of China
2014- 298 people, including crew member members, died after a Malaysian Airlines plane crashed.
