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• ... that with her 1906 ascent of
  Himalaya, Fanny Bullock Workman
  (pictured) set an altitude record for women that stood until 1934?
• ... that the 1944
  Jewish immigration from Arab and Muslim countries became official policy of the Zionist leadership
  ?
• ... that as a boy, golf course designer
  Edinburgh University
  ?
• ... that the
  feminist
  choir in the United States?
• ... that Su Rong is the highest-ranking Chinese official to come under investigation for corruption during the presidency of Xi Jinping?
• ... that flooding in New Market, caused by a tropical depression over Jamaica in 1979, had not fully subsided after six months?
• ... that Olivia Pope was spoofed by Jennifer Hudson when the Obama administration needed a spokesman for its Affordable Care Act?

• The BRICS summit is held in Brazil.
• A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 22 people and injuring at least 160 others.
• The
  the final
  .
• The
  Slovenian parliamentary election
  .
• The maiden flight of the Russian Angara rocket concludes successfully.
• Israel launches
  an offensive on the Gaza Strip
  .
• The prehistoric
  Pelagornis sandersi
  is identified as the largest flying bird yet discovered.

July 17: Feast day of the Scillitan Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church); Constitution Day in South Korea (1948)

• 1453 – The Battle of Castillon, the last conflict of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all landholdings in France, except Calais.
• New Zealand land wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato
  .
• Nicholas II (pictured) and his family at Yekaterinburg
  .
• 1944 – Two ships laden with ammunition for World War II exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, killing 320 sailors and civilians, and injuring more than 400 others.
• street running light rail
  system in the United Kingdom.

More anniversaries: July 16 – July 17 – July 18