July 17

July 17 is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. It is preceded by July 16, and succeeded by July 18. Following July 17, there are 167 days in the year.

Blavatsky's Gem of the Day

"Who fulfills not duty with steadfast mind, duty which opens the portals of bliss, surprised by old age and remorse, he is burned by the fire of grief."

Events

• 1894 – L. W. Rogers was jailed, along with Eugene V. Debs, in the famous Pullman Strike of the American Railway Union
• 1980 – Radha Burnier took office as Seventh International President of the Theosophical Society (Adyar).

Births

• YEAR – NAME, SOMETHING ABOUT PERSON (d. YEAR) - THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE

Deaths

• 1941 – A. Trevor Barker, English Theosophist who edited The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett.
• 1965 – Walter Evans-Wentz, Tibetan language scholar who translated The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Point Loma Theosophist (b. 1878).

Holidays and observances

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External links

• This Date in Wikipedia