Things that happened on 17 July in years past. Makes you wonder which had the biggest impact on our present time:
- The cession of Florida from Spain to the US (1821)
- The end of the Spanish-American War (1898)
- The opening of the Potsdam Conference (1945)
- The opening of Disneyland (1955)
- The first Apollo-Soyuz link-up (1975)
The most interesting anniversary? The date in 1917 when the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha renamed itself, amidst anti-German war sentiment, to the House of Windsor.