17th July anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • "Humphry Ellis born 1907 (died 2000). Creator, at first in Punch, of AJ Wentworth, the self-important and incompetent prep-school master."
• event
  • 1841
  • Great Britain
  • First issue of Punch the humorous magazine that gave birth to the modern cartoon. more
  • 1858
  • Netherlands
  • "The Lutine Bell was recovered from the seabed in the Vlie Seaway, Netherlands – subsequently hung in Lloyd’s of London."
  • 1933
  • United States
  • The American research plane ‘Lituanica’ crashed in mysterious circumstances near Lithuania after successfully crossing the Atlantic.
  • 1979
  • Nicaragua
  • "Nicaraguan President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigned and fled to exile in Miami, allowing the left-wing Sandinistas to seize power"
  • 1989
  • United States
  • The US Air Forces B-2 Stealth Bomber made its first flight
• Death
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "Death of Eugene Meyer, American businessman and financier, first president of the World bank, publisher of the Washington Post newspaper"
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "Death of Billie Holiday, American jazz singer"