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This is a list of selected July 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Feast day of the Scillitan Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church); date not cited
Yama-boko Junkō in Kyoto, Japan unreferenced section
1048Damasus II began his 23-day-long papacy. Discrepancy in length of reign between article and Pope#Lengths_of_papal_reign
1762Peter III was killed while in custody at Ropsha, a few days after he was deposed as Emperor of Russia and replaced by his wife Catherine the Great. Peter: missing page numbers, neutrality issues; Catherine: refimprove section
1791French Revolution: Members of the National Guard fired into a large crowd that was gathered at the Champ de Mars, Paris, to sign a petition demanding the removal of Louis XVI. page numbers missing
1867 - In Boston, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established as the first university-based dental school in the United States. refimprove section
1899 – The Nippon Electric Company was founded as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. date not cited
1938 – American aviator Douglas Corrigan earned the nickname "Wrong Way" after he flew east from Brooklyn, New York City, to County Dublin, Ireland, when he intended to go west to Long Beach, California. refimprove section
1945Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin (all pictured), leaders of the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union respectively, met in Potsdam to decide what should be done with post-war Germany. copy editing needed
1951 - After a protracted political crisis and the abdication of his predecessor, Baudouin became the fifth King of the Belgians. unreferenced section
1955Disneyland, the only theme park to be designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney, opened in Anaheim, California, during a televised ceremony. needs more footnotes
1973Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last King of Afghanistan, was ousted in a coup by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery. Shah: refimprove section; Khan: unreferenced sections
1998 – A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake devastated several villages in Papua New Guinea, killing more than 2,100 people, and destroying the homes of thousands more. Too much uncited
1998 – Biologists reported in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis. Tagged with {{expand}}, date only in footnote
2009 – Two suicide bombers detonated themselves at two separate hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia. refimprove section
Dorothea Dix |d|1887| lead too short
Berenice Abbott |b|1898| refimprove sections
James Cagney|b|1899| 5x {cn}
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio |b|1918| missing information
Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2022); Article doesn't state 2023 date

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July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948); World Emoji Day

Russian imperial family, 1913
Russian imperial family, 1913
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