Major events of July 17 in Indian and World History

New Delhi: The major events of July 17 in Indian and world history are as follows:

1893 – England’s Arthur Shrevesbury becomes the first cricketer to score 1000 runs in Test cricket.
1906 – Clement Armand Falières is elected President of France.
1919 – Constitution adopted in Finland.
1929 – Soviet Union ends diplomatic relations with China.
1944 – 322 people died in an explosion in two ammunition-laden ships near California in the US.
1948 – Women in the country are declared eligible for any type of civil services including Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service.
1950 – India’s first plane crashes in Pathankot.
1968 – The Baas Party seizes power in Iraq by rebelling under the leadership of Ahmad Hasan albakra.
1972 – For the first time, two women begin training at Quantico as an American intelligence agency FBI agent.
1974 – 41 people are injured in a bombing in the London Tower.
1976 – The 21st Southern Olympic Games begin in Montreal.
1981 – Israel destroys the Al-Fatah headquarters in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.
1987 – Diplomatic relations between Iran and France break.
1994 – Comet shoemaker Levi-9 collides with Jupiter.
2002 – Svetlana Fyfaprova of Russia sets new European record in pole vault competition.
2003 – 54 people were killed in ethnic violence in the world city of northeast Congo.
2013 – 58 people died in floods in China’s Sichuan province.
2014 – 283 passengers and 15 crew members were killed in the crash of Malaysia Airlines plane-17.