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Associated Press<\/p>\n

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Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland’s layout, December 1954.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today in History: Friday, July 17, 2015<\/p>\n

On July 17, 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in North Africa.
\n1821 Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
\n1898 Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to U.S. forces during the Spanish-American War.
\n1917 With the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name from the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor.
\n1918 Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks.
\n1945 President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.
\n1948 Southern Democrats opposed to the party’s position on civil rights met in Birmingham, Ala., to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond for president.
\n1955 Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
\n1961 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74.
\n1967 Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane died at age 40.
\n1981 A pair of walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a dance, killing 114 people.
\n1996 TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Paris, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport. All 230 people aboard were killed.
\n2000 Bashar Assad succeeded his late father, Hafez Assad, becoming Syria’s 16th head of state.
\n2009 Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died at age 92.<\/p>\n

Today’s Birthdays:
\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel turns 61 years old today.
\nDiahann Carroll, Actress, singer, 80
\nDonald Sutherland, Actor, 80
\nSpencer Davis, Rock singer, musician, 73
\nConnie Hawkins, Basketball Hall of Famer, 73
\nTerry “Geezer” Butler, Rock musician (Black Sabbath), 66
\nLucie Arnaz, Actress, 64
\nDavid Hasselhoff, Actor (“Baywatch,” “Knight Rider”), 63
\nBryan Trottier, Hockey Hall of Famer, 59
\nMark Burnett, TV producer (“Survivor,” “The Apprentice”), 55
\nCamilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, turns 68 years old today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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