On this Day - July 17th
- 1978 - Leeds Castle was the site of a meeting between the Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan in preparation for the Camp David Accords
- 2005 - Edward Heath, KG, MBE, died. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975 and born in Broadstairs