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July 17

Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.

The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German senitment during World War I.

"Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.

President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.

Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.

The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.

The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

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