| General Information for July 17th 2018 |
| There are 5 public holidays today. |
| Day 198 of 2018 |
| 167 days left in 2018 |
| Week 29 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1975 - An international space link-up between US astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts took place when they crossed over from their docked spacecraft and shook hands 140 miles above Britain's south coast. |
| 1959 - Billie Holiday, jazz singer - probably the greatest of them all - was arrested on her death bed in hospital for possession of narcotics. She died later that day. |
| 1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, US author and lawyer who created Perry Mason, was born. |
| 1415 - Philipa of Lancaster dies of the plague. |