The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie events on the 17th July
Charlotte Corday is executed by guillotine in Paris. (Paris) (Marat/Sade )
John Bell Hood takes command of the Army of Tennessee. (Gettysburg)
"Wild Bill" Hickok shoots two soldiers in self-defense, mortally wounding one of them . (Hays City, Kansas) (Wild Bill)
Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children are shot to death by the Bolsheviks during the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought Communism to Russia. (Russia) (Nicholas and Alexandra)
Ned Devine born. (Ireland) (Waking Ned)
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan takes off on a flight that would finally win him a place in aviation history. (Brooklyn, New York) (Flying Irishman, The )
Billie Holiday dies of cardiac failure. (New York City) (Lady Sings the Blues)
Ty Cobb dies. (Atlanta, Georgia) (Cobb)