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.)