deaths
July 17, 2001
Katharine Graham, American publisher (born 1917)
Katharine Graham
Katharine Meyer Graham was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was one of the first 20th-century female publishers of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press.
July 17
July 17 is the 198th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 167 days remain until the end of the year.