Sunday, July 17, 2011

July 17

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. A. C. Newman There are Maybe Ten or Twelve Get Guilty
2 1717 King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered. Hot Water Music The Bitter End Never Ender
3 1867 Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston. It was the first dental school in the U.S. Pretty Girls Make Graves The Teeth Collector The New Romance
4 1938 Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. TV on the Radio The Wrong Way Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
5 1981 A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200. Soul Coughing Collapse Irresistible Bliss
6 1998 A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. The Offspring Genocide Smash

(Historical facts about July 17 are from Wikipedia.)

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