This Day in History
July 17, 1955: The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits.
What is Disneyland?
Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton
What is James Bond?
At its closest point, this innermost planet is still about 29 million miles away from the Sun
What is Mercury?
On this sitcom Will Smith played a fictionalized version of himself, sent from Philly to live with rich relatives in L.A.
What is the Fresh Prince of Bel Aire?
A stream & a floorboard noise
What is creek/creak?
July 17, 2020: This former Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and a 17-term congressman from Georgia’s Fifth District, dies at the age of 80.
Who is John Lewis?
Fan, form, poison pen
What are letters?
It's known as Earth's twin but it has surface temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit
What is Venus?
Redd Foxx played a cantankerous junk dealer & patriarch on this comedy
What is Sanford and Son?
Flung & ceremonial chair for a king/queen
What is thown/throne?
July 17, 2014: He dies after losing consciousness as a police officer locks him in an illegal chokehold for illegally selling cigarettes. Within hours, a video of the incident begins to spark outrage across the country.
Who is Eric Garner?
Wing, Brazil, Hazel
What are nuts?
In 2021 this 90-year-old boldly went aboard a spacecraft from Blue Origin, becoming the oldest person to fly in space
Who is William Shatner?
A broomstick rider tackles suburbia with her adman husband
What is Bewitched?
Archery accessory & old-time boyfriend
What is bow/beau?
July 17, 1996: Shortly after takeoff from New York’s Kennedy International Airport, this TWA Boeing 747 jetliner bound for Paris explodes over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 230 people aboard.
What is Flight 800?
Pipe, salmon, cigar
What are things you smoke?
There are about 6 trillion miles in one of these units of space distance
What is a light year?
Harry Anderson presided over this sitcom while Markie Post played a public defender
What is Night Court?
A good source of protein & a gathering for track events
What is meat/meet?
July 17, 1967: one of the oddest musical pairings in history comes to an end when Jimi Hendrix dropped out as the opening act for this teenybopper sensation.
Who are The Monkees?
Covalent, bail, treasury
What are bonds?
The last year humans stood on the Moon was during the Apollo 17 mission in this presidential election year
What is 1972?
It's the city where the Cunninghams live out the sunny 1950s on "Happy Days"
What is Milwaukee?
To offer something for purchase, or the basic structural unit of an organism
What is sell/cell?