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The OpenHistoricalMap portal features a selection of establishments and disestablishments on each day of the year, based on OpenHistoricalMap data. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
July 17
- 1901
- The Doggett Dry Goods Company is renamed the George B. Peck Dry Goods Company in Kansas City, Missouri.
- 1941
- The Main Street Bridge opens in Jacksonville, Florida.
- 1956
- The town hall of Porz, North Rhine-Westphalia, is expanded.
- 1990
- Kalinin is renamed Tver.
- 1997
- A Woolworth's department store closes in San Jose, California, after 72 years in business.
- 2021
- Vietnamese restaurant DD Mau closes in Vancouver after nine years in business.
Other dates
For other dates, see Category:On this day in OpenHistoricalMap.
Contributing
We appreciate your help in curating these events from OpenHistoricalMap data. Items should be based on fully qualified start_date=* and end_date=* tags, plus any other metadata tagged on features in OpenHistoricalMap. To the extent possible, the list should feature a wide range of years and include events from different continents.