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July 17:
- 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon surrendered at Rochefort, France, to British forces.
- 1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, United States.
- 1996 - Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 exploded, killing all 230 on board.
- 1998 - A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake devastated 10 villages in Papua New Guinea, killing an estimated 1,500 people, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for, and destroying the homes of thousands more.
- 1998 - Biologists reported in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.
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