bransonglobe.com HISTORY July 17 - 18, 2020 • 23 Today in History: Movies, sports and more • 180 6 inhabitants of Carthage, North Africa executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in this part of the world. • 1203 Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboad a Venetian fleet attack the city • 1505 Martin Luther enters into an Augustinian monastery at Erfurt • 1762 Catherine the Great becomes tsarina of Russia following the murder of Peter III • 1867 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established • 1898 Spanish American War: Spaniards surrender to US forces at Santiago de Cuba • 1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor • 1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia • 1936 Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War • 1938 Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan leaves NY flying for LA, winds up in Ireland supposedly by mistake • 1945 Potsdam Conference: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold 1st post-World War II meeting • • • 1954 Construction of Disneyland commences 1955 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California. 1964 ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace • 1975 Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space • 1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for US president • 1995 Forbes Magazine announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world with a net worth of $12.9 billion dollars • 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surfaceto-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board • 2018 Barack Obama gives speech honoring Nelson Mandela and warning of “strongman politics” in Johannesburg, South Africa Movies & TV • 1959 “North by Northwest” directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles • 1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of “Today Show” • 1998 “The Mask of Zorro” directed by Martin Campbell, starring Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Anthony Hopkins is released Music • 1717 George Frideric Handel’s “Water Music” premieres on the river Thames in London • 1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act Sports • 1922 Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year • 1934 Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland • 1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers) • 1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3) • 1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa • 1978 NY Yankee manager Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson fight in dug out after Jackson refuses to bunt, causing Martin to suspend him • 1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo • 1990 NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
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