TWO non-musical history items for today that happened on the exact same date: 1918 – I know I talk about it a lot, but I find it very fascinating. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, were shot and bayonetted by the Bolsheviks. Also murdered that night: court physician Eugene Botkin, lady-in-waiting Anna Demidova, footman Alexei Trupp, and head cook Ivan Kharitonov. The bodies were taken to the Koptyaki forest, where they were stripped, mutilated with grenades to prevent identification, and buried.
1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for July 17.
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