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August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in Leap Year s) in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 136 days remaining.
Events
- 1427 - First band of gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the Citizen Of Paris
- 1807 - Robert Fulton 's first American Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River , inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
- 1850 - Argentine War Of Independence hero, General José De San Martín , dies in Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), at the age of 77.
- (Sioux) uprising begins in Minnesota as desperate Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River . They will be overwhelmed by the U.S. military six weeks later.
- , Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate -held Fort Sumter . Bombardment will not end until December 31 , 1863.
- troops at the Battle Of Gainesville .
- 1877 - Arizona blacksmith F.P. Cahill is fatally wounded by Billy The Kid . Cahill will die the next day, becoming the first person killed by the Kid.
- 1883 - Dominican Republic the first public performance of the Dominican National Anthem, Quisqueyanos Valientes
- army of General Hermann Von Francois defeats the Russia n force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf at the Battle Of Stalluponen .
- 1915 - Jew ish American Leo Frank is Lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia .
- 1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is Assassinated .
- arrive in Messina, Italy , followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery , thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily .
- 1945 - Indonesia proclaims itself independent from the Netherlands .
- in Southern California .
- 1960 - Gabon gains independence from France .
- 1962 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin . He thus became the first victim of the wall.
- 1963 - A ferry linking remote islands off the coast of Okinawa sinks, killing 112.
- 1969 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
- is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another Planet , Venus .
- 1978 - '' Double Eagle II '' becomes first Balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris , 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine .
- 1979 - Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine , killing 156
- 1980 - Azaria Chamberlain Disappears , likely taken by a Dingo , leading to what was then the most Publicised Trial in Australian History .
- 1988 - Pakistan i President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and US Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
- 1991 - Wade Frankum starts his killing spree in Strathfield, Australia, an event that was later dubbed the Strathfield Massacre .
- Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky . On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
- 1999 - A 7.4-magnitude Earthquake strikes Izmit, Turkey , killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
- 2004 - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
- 2004 - The becomes the new anthem and the Coat Of Arms is adopted for the whole country.
- 2005 - The first forced Evacuation of Settlers , as part of the Israel Unilateral Disengagement Plan , starts.
Births
- 1473 - Richard, Duke Of York , one of the Princes In The Tower (d. 1483 ?)
- 1562 - Hans Leo Hassler (baptised), German composer (d. 1612 )
- 1578 - Francesco Albani , Italian painter (d. 1660 )
- 1601 - Pierre De Fermat , French mathematician (d. 1665 )
- 1629 - King John III Of Poland (d. 1696 )
- 1786 - Davy Crockett , American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836 )
- 1828 - Jules Bernard Luys , French neurologist (d. 1897 )
- 1844 - Emperor Menelek II Of Ethiopia (d. 1913 )
- 1866 - Julia Marlowe , nee Sarah Frost, Shakespearean actress (d. 1950 )
- 1882 - Samuel Goldwyn , Hollywood producer (d. 1974 )
- 1887 - Marcus Garvey , Jamaican leader, Rastafari prophet (d. 1940 )
- 1887 - Emperor Charles I Of Austria (d. 1922 )
- 1893 - Mae West , American actress and playwright (d. 1980 )
- 1904 - Leopold Nowak , Austrian musicologist
- 1911 - Mikhail Botvinnik , chess player (d. 1995 )
- 1913 - W. Mark Felt , FBI associate director and Deep Throat Watergate informant
- 1913 - Rudy York , baseball player (d. 1970 )
- 1920 - Maureen O'Hara , actress
- 1926 - Jiang Zemin , former President Of The People's Republic Of China
- 1929 - Francis Gary Powers , U-2 pilot (d. 1977 )
- 1930 - Glenn Corbett , actor (d. 1993 )
- 1930 - Ted Hughes , English poet (d. 1998 )
- 1932 - V. S. Naipaul , West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933 - Gene Kranz , NASA flight director
- 1935 - Oleg Tabakov , Russian actor
- 1939 - Luther Allison , American blues guitarist
- 1943 - Robert De Niro , American actor
- 1948 - Rod MacDonald , American musician
- 1951 - Alan Minter , boxer
- 1952 - Nelson Piquet , Brazilian formula one driver
- 1952 - Guillermo Vilas , Argentinian tennis player
- 1954 - Eric Johnson , guitarist
- 1958 - Belinda Carlisle , singer and guitarist
- 1958 - Kirk Stevens , Canadian snooker player
- 1959 - David Koresh , American cult leader (d. 1993 )
- 1960 - Sean Penn , American actor, director
- 1962 - Gilby Clarke , American musician Guns N' Roses
- 1964 - Colin James , blues musician
- 1966 - Rodney Mullen , American skateboarder
- 1966 - William E. Dudley , American poet
- 1968 - Ed McCaffrey , American football player
- 1969 - Donnie Wahlberg , American actor and singer
- 1970 - Jim Courier , American tennis player
- 1971 - Jorge Posada , Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
- 1977 - Thierry Henry , French footballer
- 1977 - Tarja Turunen , Finnish singer ( Nightwish )
- 1977 - William Gallas , French footballer
- 1980 - Lene Marlin , Norwegian singer
Deaths
- 1153 - Eustace IV Of Boulogne , son of Stephen Of England
- 1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243 )
- 1510 - Edmund Dudley , English statesman
- 1657 - Robert Blake , British admiral (b. 1599 )
- 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph Von Grimmelshausen , German novelist
- 1673 - Regnier De Graaf , Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641 )
- 1720 - Anne Lefèvre , French scholar (b. 1654 )
- 1723 - Joseph Bingham , English scholar (b. 1668 )
- 1768 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky , Russian poet (b. 1703 )
- 1785 - Jonathan Trumbull , Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710 )
- 1786 - King Frederick II Of Prussia (b. 1712 )
- 1834 - Husein Gradaščević , Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802 )
- 1850 - Don José De San Martín , Argentine general (b. 1778 )
- 1875 - Wilhelm Bleek , linguist (b. 1827 )
- 1880 - Ole Bull , Norwegian violinist (b. 1810 )
- 1896 - Bridget Driscoll , world's first automobile fatality
- 1901 - Edmond Audran , French composer (b. 1842 )
- 1920 - Ray Chapman , baseball player (b. 1891 )
- 1925 - Ioan Slavici , Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848 )
- 1954 - Billy Murray , recording artist (b. 1877 )
- 1969 - Otto Stern , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888 )
- 1973 - Jean Barraqué , French composer (b. 1928 )
- 1973 - Paul Williams , American singer ( The Temptations ) (b. 1939 )
- 1973 - Conrad Aiken , American author (b. 1889 )
- 1979 - Vivian Vance , actress (b. 1909 )
- 1983 - Ira Gershwin , American lyricist (b. 1896 )
- 1987 - Rudolf Hess , Nazi deputy (b. 1894 )
- 1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , President Of Pakistan (b. 1924 )
- 1990 - Pearl Bailey , American singer and actress (b. 1918 )
- 1992 - Al Parker , actor (b. 1952 )
- 2004 - Gérard Souzay , French baritone (b. 1918 )
- 2005 - John Bahcall , astrophysicist (b. 1934 )
Holidays and observances
External links
August 16 - August 18 - July 17 - September 17 -- Listing Of All Days
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