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July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948); World Emoji Day

Russian imperial family, 1913

1850 – William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun.
1862 – The garrotting and robbery of James Pilkington, a British member of Parliament, led to a moral panic in London.
1918 – Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II and his family (pictured) were murdered by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg.
1944 – Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing 320 people and injuring more than 400 others.
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.

Edward the Elder (d. 924)
Jadwiga of Poland (d. 1399)
Angela Merkel (b. 1954)
Otto Piene (d. 2014)

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