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- 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.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on July 17, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on July 17 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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