Daily Calendar _ July 17

The 198th day of the year, 167 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Andreas, Archbishop of Crete, creator of the "Great Canon", of Jerusalem (712-726); Saint Martha, mother of Simeon the Wonderworker, who settled on the Miraculous Mountain (551); Martyrs Theodotes and Theodotias (105-108); Hieromartyr Theodore, Bishop of Cyrene (310); Saint Andrew Rublev, icon painter (XV).

Born:

1487 _ Ismail I, founder of the Safavid state. Died in 1524.

1846 — Nikolai Miklukho-Maclay, Russian traveler and ethnographer. Died 1888.

1888 — Samuel Joseph Agnon, Jewish writer, Nobel Prize laureate. Died 1970.

1889 — Earl Stanley Gardner, American writer. Died 1970.

1894 — Georges Lemaître, Belgian astronomer. Died 1966.

1928 — Kakhi Khutsishvili, painter, Rustaveli Prize laureate.

Died:

1790 — Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher.

1912 — Henri Poincaré, French mathematician.

1918 — Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, his wife Alexandra and third daughter Anastasia.

1947 — Raoul Gustav Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat.

1975 _ Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, writer.

Events:

1556 — Battle of Garis. Near the village of Garis, Luarsab I and his son Simon brutally defeated the Persian army. Luarsab died in this battle.

709 BC — The Chinese Chu Bu first described a solar eclipse.

1917 — During World War I, King George V of Great Britain issued a law removing all German titles from the names of members of the royal family. The royal dynasty is then called the Windsors.

1918 — Nicholas II and his family were shot in Yekaterinburg.

Memorable days:

Lesotho – King's Day.

Puerto Rico – Riviera Day.

Slovakia _ Independence Day.

Finland _ Democracy Day.

South Korea _ Constitution Day.