📰 TODAY IN HISTORY

📆 July 17

📜 Events:
⚔️ 1429 — Charles VII is crowned King of France at Reims Cathedral, consolidating the campaign led by Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years' War.
🏰 1453 — The Battle of Castillon ends with the French victory over the English, marking the end of the Hundred Years' War.
👑 1918 — Tsar Nicholas II, his family, and four servants are executed by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, ending the Romanov dynasty.
🤝 1945 — The Potsdam Conference begins, bringing together Stalin, Truman, and Churchill to define the future of Germany after World War II.
🏰🎢 1955 — Disneyland is inaugurated in Anaheim (California), the first Disney theme park.
⚖️ 1998 — The Rome Statute is adopted, the treaty that establishes the International Criminal Court (ICC).
✈️🇧🇷 2007 — TAM Flight 3054 crashes at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, becoming the largest aviation disaster in Brazil’s history.
⭐ Births:
👨‍🔬 1894 — Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and physicist, a precursor to the Big Bang theory. (†1966)
🎨 1932 — Quino, Argentine cartoonist and creator of the unforgettable Mafalda. (†2020)
🎬 1935 — Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor. (†2024)
⚽ 1944 — Carlos Alberto Torres, captain of the Brazilian team that won the 1970 World Cup. (†2016)
👑 1947 — Camila, Queen consort of the United Kingdom.
🏛️ 1954 — Angela Merkel, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany.
🎤 1982 — Natasha Hamilton, British singer, songwriter, and actress.
🕊️ Deaths:
⚔️ 1453 — John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander killed in the Battle of Castillon. (born 1387)
✝️ 1566 — Bartolomeu de las Casas, Dominican friar and advocate for the rights of Indigenous peoples. (born 1474)
📚 1790 — Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher, considered the father of modern economics. (born 1723)
🧮 1912 — Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. (born 1854)
👑 1918 — Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. (born 1868)
🎷 1959 — Billie Holiday, one of the greatest voices in jazz history. (born 1915)
🎹🇧🇷 2023 — João Donato, pianist, composer, and one of the great names in Brazilian music. (born 1934)
📍 Holidays and Commemorative Dates:
🌳 Forest Protection Day
⚓ Submariner Day
😊 World Emoji Day
🇧🇷 City anniversaries:
🎉 Volta Redonda (RJ)
🎉 Cuité (PB)
🎉 Bagé (RS)
🎉 Sabará (MG)
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