07-17-2006, 05:33 AM
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July 17th
1790 ~ Death of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1899 ~ Birthday of James Cagney, Actor.
1935 ~ Birthday of Donald Sutherland, Actor.
1947 ~ Birthday of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Parker Bowles), former British royal mistress and now wife of Prince Charles.
1955 ~ Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
1961 ~ Death of Baseball hall-of-famer Ty Cobb.
1962 ~ The Small Boy nuclear test shot Little Feller I became the last atmospheric detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
1975 ~ An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1979 ~ Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled into exile in Miami.
2003 ~ Death of Dr. David Kelly, U.N. Weapons Inspector.
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