History of 17th july

1.  France defeats England at Castillon, France, ending the Hundred Years’ War.on July 17 1453

2.  Peter III of Russia is murdered and his wife, Catherine II, takes the throne.on July 17 1762

3.  France limits the importation of goods from Britain.on July 17 1785

4.  National Guard troops open fire on a crowd of demonstrators in Paris.on July 17 1791

5.  Ottoman forces, supported by the British, capture Aboukir, Egypt from the French.on July 17 1799

6.  The U.S. fleet arrives in Tripoli.on July 17 1801

7.  Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British at Rochefort, France.on July 17 1815

8.  Andrew Jackson becomes the governor of Florida.on July 17 1821

9.  Confederate President Jefferson Davis replaces General Joseph E. Johnston with General John Bell Hood in hopes of defeating Union General William T. Sherman outside Atlanta.on July 17 1864

10. U.S. troops under General William R. Shafter take Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.on July 17 1898

11. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel is wounded when an Allied fighter strafes his staff car in France.on July 17 1944

12. Chinese communists attack the Nationalist army on the Yangtze River.on July 17 1946

13. American pilot Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court.on July 17 1960

14. Ho Chi Minh orders a partial mobilization of North Vietnam to defend against American airstrikes.on July 17 1966

15. Lt. Col. Oliver North and Rear Adm. John Poindexter begin testifying to Congress regarding the Iran-Contra scandal.on July 17 1987