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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48723)7/17/2005 4:25:20 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
July 17:

1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon surrendered to British forces at Rochefort, France, ending the Hundred Days.
1945 - Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry S. Truman met at the Potsdam Conference to decide how to administer post-World War II Germany.
1975 - History of East Timor: East Timor was annexed and became the 27th province of Indonesia.
1996 - Paris-bound TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.
1998 - Biologists reported in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.