Today in History: July 17, Disneyland’s opening day
In the current era is Thursday July the th day of There are days left in the year At present in history On July Disneyland opened in Anaheim California after its million yearlong construction the park drew a million visitors in its first weeks Also on this date In during the Civil War Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free Related Articles Puppies rescued from flood-stricken Texas arrive at Chicago shelter Grand Canyon blaze shows how managing a fire can go suddenly sideways Government take custody of kids in California while surrogate moms claim couple misled them An Alaska tsunami warning had residents scrambling for high ground after magnitude earthquake First the shoes went back on Now at US airport shield more liquid in carry-ons may be at hand In Willis Carrier produced a set of designs for what would become the world s first modern air-conditioning system In Russia s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks In the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic In during World War II men two-thirds of them African-Americans were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California In following Nazi Germany s surrender President Harry S Truman Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II In an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind In people were killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a tea dance In TWA Flight a Europe-bound Boeing exploded and crashed off Long Island New York shortly after departing John F Kennedy International Airport killing all people on board In all passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight were killed when the Boeing was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine both Ukraine s executive and pro-Russian separatists denied responsibility In civil rights icon John Lewis whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress died at age In a document stated nearly law enforcement leaders rushed to a mass shooting that left people dead at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde Texas but egregiously poor decision-making resulted in a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman was ultimately confronted and killed In the present day s Birthdays Former sportscaster Verne Lundquist is Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom is Rock musician Terry Geezer Butler is Actor Lucie Arnaz is Actor David Hasselhoff is Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is Film director Wong Kar-wai is Television producer Mark Burnett is Singer Regina Belle is Country music artist Craig Morgan is Rock musician Lou Barlow is Actor Bitty Schram TV Monk is Actor Jason Clarke is Movie director F Gary Gray is Country singer Luke Bryan is Film director screenwriter Justine Triet is R B singer Jeremih jehr-uh-MY is Actor Billie Lourd is NHL center Connor Bedard is
