| 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 |
| 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. |
| 1946 - The Memphis Belle, one of the B-17 Flying Fortresses, is brought home to Memphis following the war. |
| 1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, US author and lawyer who created Perry Mason, was born. |
| 1203 - The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees into exile. |