First modern air conditioning system
Time: Thursday Jul 17, 1902
Place: Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Details: In Buffalo, New York, on July 17, 1902, in response to an air quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company of Brooklyn, Willis Carrier submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system.
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W. E. B. Du Bois-Du Bois and several other African-American civil rights activists met in Canada
1905 - Niagara Falls, Canada
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Abraham Lincoln-Confiscation Act of 1862
Thursday Jul 17, 1862 - U.S.
Irish War of Independence-British Colonel Gerald Smyth was assassinated by the IRA in the County Club in Cork city
Saturday Jul 17, 1920 - Cork, Ireland
Francisco Franco-Spanish Civil War
Friday Jul 17, 1936 - Spain
Spanish Civil War-Control over Spanish Morocco was all but certain
Friday Jul 17, 1936 - Morocco
Benito Mussolini-Massacre in Florence
Monday Jul 17, 1944 - Italy
First Indochina War-the Potsdam Conference
Tuesday Jul 17, 1945 - Potsdam, Germany
Ronald Reagan-Disapproved recommendation
Tuesday Jul 17, 1945 - U.S.
Winston Churchill-Churchill was Great Britain's representative at the post-war Potsdam Conference
Tuesday Jul 17, 1945 - Potsdam, Germany
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Saturday Jul 17, 1954 - Hamburg, West Germany
Walt Disney-The Opening of Disneyland
Sunday Jul 17, 1955 - Disneyland Resort, 1313 Disneyland Dr, Anaheim, California, U.S.
Audrey Hepburn-Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Sunday Jul 17, 1960 - U.S.
Iran–Iraq War-Saddam's Speech
Tuesday Jul 17, 1979 - Baghdad, Iraq
Nicaraguan Revolution-President Somoza Resigned
Tuesday Jul 17, 1979 - Managua, Nicaragu
Qasem Soleimani-Soleimani opposed the IRGC leadership's plan
Wednesday Jul 17, 1985 - Iran
Kosovo War-The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
Tuesday Jul 17, 1990 - Serbia
Plane Accidents-TWA Flight 800
Wednesday Jul 17, 1996 - the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York
Kosovo War-Villages were captured
Friday Jul 17, 1998 - Kosovo
2008 Sichuan earthquake-Parents of children lost in collapsed schools complained they had yet to receive any reports
Thursday Jul 17, 2008 - China
Plane Accidents-Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Thursday Jul 17, 2014 - Eastern Ukraine
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development-Nairobi Conference (2016)
Sunday Jul 17, 2016 - Nairobi, Kenya
Francesco Totti-Announced that he had accepted an offer from his former team Roma to become a club director
Monday Jul 17, 2017 - Rome, Italy
Francesco Totti-Announced his resignations from his managerial role at AS Roma
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019 - Rome, Italy
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Peter III's death
Saturday Jul 17, 1762 - Russia
John Astor Birth
Sunday Jul 17, 1763 - Walldorf
Catherine II Empress regnant of Russia (1762)
Saturday Jul 17, 1762 - Russia
Hendricus van der Palm Birth
Sunday Jul 17, 1763 - Rotterdam
July 1902
FIFA World Cup-The First official international match outside the British Isles
Jul, 1902 - Montevideo, Uruguay
1902
The Wright brothers-The 1902 Try
1902 - Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S.
Marie Curie-Separating One-Tenth of a Gram of Radium Chloride
1902 - Paris, France
Marie Curie-She visited Poland
1902 - Paris, France
Marie Curie-The Curials Published 32 Scientific Papers
1902 - Paris, France
Igor Stravinsky-Staying With Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and His Family
1902 - Heidelberg, Germany
1905 Russian Revolution-In the provinces of Kharkov and Poltava
1902 - Kharkov and Poltava, Russian Empire (Now Ukraine)
Second Boer War-Boer leader Manie Maritz was implicated in the Leliefontein massacre
1902 - Leliefontein, South Africa
Armenian Genocide-A Congress of the Young Turks
1902 - Paris, France
Denmark expedition-The start of an expeditionary
1902 - Greenland
1905 Russian Revolution-Worker strikes in Caucasus broke out
Mar, 1902 - Russian Empire
Second Boer War-Large British reinforcements were sent to the Western Transvaal
Mar, 1902 - South Africa
Second Boer War-Boers attacked the rear guard of Methuen's moving column at Tweebosch
Friday Mar 7, 1902 - South Africa
Plague-Plague infection is first reported in Mexico
1902 - Mexico
Second Boer War-The opportunity the British were waiting for arose
Friday Apr 11, 1902 - Rooiwal, South Africa
Second Boer War-End of hostilities
May, 1902 - South Africa
Second Boer War-Zulu faction had their cattle stolen and their people mistreated by the Boers as a punishment for helping the British
Tuesday May 6, 1902 - South Africa
Disasters with highest death tolls-Mount Pelée
Wednesday May 7, 1902 - Martinique
Second Boer War-Treaty of Vereeniging
Saturday May 31, 1902 - Pretoria, South African Republic
Second Boer War-Treaty of Vereeniging
Saturday May 31, 1902 - Pretoria, South Africa
Nikola Tesla-Tesla moved his lab operations from Houston Street to Wardenclyffe
Jun, 1902 - New York City, New York, U.S.
FIFA World Cup-The First official international match outside the British Isles
Jul, 1902 - Montevideo, Uruguay
Ford-Cadillac Motor Company
Friday Aug 22, 1902 - U.S.
Disasters with highest death tolls-Yacolt Burn
Sep, 1902 - Washington and Oregon, U.S.
Gustav Stresemann-Stresemann and Saxon
1902 - Kingdom of Saxony (Present day Saxony state, Germany)
Willem Einthoven-Willem became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
1902 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Wright brothers-Tries
Friday Sep 19, 1902 - Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S.
Ruhollah Khomeini-Birth
Tuesday Sep 23, 1902 - Khomeyn, Markazi Province, Iran
The Wright brothers-A Major Milestone
Wednesday Oct 8, 1902 - Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S.
Disasters with highest death tolls-Santa Maria
Friday Oct 24, 1902 - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini-Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland
1902 - Switzerland