Browsing: July 17

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on July 17th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On July 17, 1791, hero of the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier (you can see why he is usually just called “Lafayette”) led the French National Guard against a riotous mob of around 10,000 angry French revolutionaries, gunning down about 50 of the rebels in the action. On July 17, 1917, King George V…

A Brief History On July 17, 1998, a conference of international delegates under the auspices of the United Nations adopted The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, a treaty to provide a permanent international venue to prosecute war crimes and related crimes. Digging Deeper Some countries refused to endorse the treaty, and others that initially agreed, withdrew their support or failed to ratify the treaty.  Countries that signed the treaty but later withdrew their signatures include the United States and Russia, while China and India did not sign in the first place. Without the largest and most powerful countries…

A Brief History On July 17, 1918, in the latter stage of World War I, the RMS Carpathia, a ship made famous for rescuing 705 of the passengers of the infamous RMS Titanic when she sank in 1912, was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland by German submarine SM U-55 and sunk, losing only 5 lives in the process, a far different circumstance than the Titanic. Digging Deeper Carpathia, completed in 1903, was built for the Cunard Line of shippers, an intermediate sized ship not designed to compete with the very largest and fastest ocean liners, but to operate economically…

A Brief History Found footage horror film fans of John Carroll University, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Unfriended: Dark Web on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 7:30 PM at Atlas Eastgate in Mayfield Heights, Ohio!  Please visit this link for the chance to be placed on the guest list at the Cleveland advance screening.   Winners will receive an email by 6 PM on Friday, July 13, 2018 notifying them that their name will be placed on a guest list at the door.  This invitation is good for the winner and 1 guest.  Seating is…

A Brief History On July 17, 2017, the entire world celebrates World Day for International Justice, as it does every July 17th since 2010.  In honor of those creeps that received justice and those that avoided justice for their alleged sexual misdeeds and general creepiness, we list 10 Celebrities That are (Alleged) Sexual Creeps.  Some have been convicted or their actions are well known, others suffer the pain of rumor and innuendo.  You decide which ones deserve to be considered sexual creeps and which are wrongfully accused. Digging Deeper 1. Michael Jackson, Singer. The King of Pop, Jackson was perhaps the…