Talk:July 17
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July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948), Marine Day in Japan (2006)
- 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon (pictured) surrendered to British forces at Rochefort, France, ending the Hundred Days.
- 1936 - Nationalist rebels in Spain attempted a coup d'etat against the Second Spanish Republic, commencing the Spanish Civil War.
- 1945 - Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry S. Truman met at the Potsdam Conference to decide how to administer post-World War II Germany.
- 1975 - History of East Timor: East Timor was annexed and became the 27th province of Indonesia.
- 1998 - Biologists reported in the scientific journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis.
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Removed the name as non notable. A google search returns only 124 results of multiple entities. If I have made a mistake please leave a message on my talk page. --Bolasanibk 08:30, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
iCal day is a holiday celebrated by the Apple fan community. I think we should add it. iCal --Jbklego 01:12, 31 October 2006 (UTC) Seconded. The icon for the iCal application is set by default to July 17.
