17 July
Dates in History
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1916Birthday of the Russian Sea Aviation. On the 17th of July in 1916 Russian pilots won their first victory against the German ones in the air battle. ![]()
1846Nikolay Miklukho-Maklay, ethnographer and traveller, is born. | In 1870-1980 Nikolay Miklukho-Maklay studied native population of South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania, giving much attention to the Papuans of the northeast coast of the New Guinea, which is now named after him. |