17 July

Events which occurred on the 17th of July.

Events

1918: Germany sinks the civilian ocean liner RMS Carpathia during World War I.
1955: The Disneyland amusement park opens in California on the planet Earth.
1959: Jazz songwriter Billie Holliday dies.
1961: Major League Baseball's Ty Cobb dies.
1967: James Wainwright reports to Colonel Stephen Olson that a UFO crash site was examined in the High Sierra Mountains, but the vessel had moved by the time investigators got there, leaving only small scraps of metals behind. (TOS novel: From History's Shadow)
1975: American astronaut Thomas Stafford and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov shake hands in the docking collar of the Apollo-Soyuz joint mission in Earth orbit. (ST reference: Spaceflight Chronology)
2009: Journalist Walter Cronkite dies.
2155: Denak secretly arranges transport for Commander T'Pol at the Romulan border and to meet Ych'a. (ENT novel: Kobayashi Maru)
2158: Administrator T'Pau and T'Pol release Ych'a and Denak after two years of detainment on Vulcan as suspects in the destruction of Surak's katra. (ENT - The Romulan War novel: To Brave the Storm)
2349: USS Voyager Hazard team specialist Kendrick Biessman is born.

1971: TOS comic: "Prison Break" begins with the 1st installment, in TV21 Weekly #95.
1978: TOS comic: "Museum at the End of Time" is released in Portuguese in O Caminho das Estrelas #18.
1980: The 19th installment of TOS comic: "Aberration on Abaris" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
1981: The 83rd installment of TOS comic: "The Savage Within" is published.
1982: The 139th and final installment of TOS comic: "The Wristwatch Plantation" is published.
1989: TNG episode: "Shades of Gray" airs (week of).
2012: TOS hardcover omnibus: Star Trek—Legion of Super-Heroes is released by IDW Publishing.
2018: TNG reference: The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard is published by Titan Books.
2024: ST - Pleroma comic: "Part 4" is released.