Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 17

July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948), Marine Day in Japan (2006)

Napoléon I

• 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon (pictured) surrendered to British forces at Rochefort, France, ending the Hundred Days.
• 1936 - Nationalist rebels in Spain attempted a coup d'etat against the Second Spanish Republic, commencing the Spanish Civil War.
• 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.
• 1998 - Biologists reported in the scientific journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis.

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