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Today In History - August 17 |
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On This Date in History |
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682 St. Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1180 Yoritomo Minamoto leads an uprising against Emperor Kiyomori Taira 1498 Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows and office so he could marry a French princess 1563 King Charles IX of France is declared an adult at 13 1577 Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots 1579 Francois van Anjou visits English Queen Elizabeth I 1585 Antwerp surrenders after 8 months of siege by the Duke of Parma 1648 Battle at Preston, Lancashire 1717 France, Russia, and Prussia sign an agreement 1743 Sweden and Russia a sign peace treaty 1787 The Jews are granted permission in Budapest, Hungary to pray in groups 1788 Losantville, OH (Cincinnati) is founded 1807 Robert Fulton's fictitious, misreported steamboat Clermont begins its trip up the Hudson River 1827 Dutch King Willem I and Pope Leo XII sign an concord 1834 Charles Darwin reaches top of Campana Chile 1835 Solymon Merrick patents the wrench 1836 The British parliament accepts registration of birth/marriage/death 1836 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin, leaves South-America for last time 1846 US fleet officer Robert F. Stockton annexes California 1858 The first bank in Hawaii opens 1859 The first air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette, IN 1862 Confederate troops, under Kirby Smith, enter Kentucky 1863 Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC 1863 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek in Tennessee 1866 Bathe and Prussia sign a peace treaty 1870 The first ascent of Mt. Rainier, Washington 1879 Ferdinand de Lesseps forms the French Panama Canal Company 1891 The first public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City 1891 Electric self-starter for automobiles is patented 1896 George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in the Klondike region of the Yukon 1897 W. B. Purvis patents the electric railway switch 1903 Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia University, and thus begins Pulitzer Prizes 1907 A Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union 1908 Bank of Italy opens its new headquarters at Clay and Montgomery 1914 Lithuiana surrenders to Germany 1915 German troops overrun Kovno, Lithuiana 1915 A hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas and kills 275 people 1915 An angry mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after his death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl was commuted to life 1916 Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia 1917 Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey 1918 British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan 1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man O' War for $5,000 1918 Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus 1933 Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") 1938 The first aircraft owned by the Forest Service went into service - in Oakland 1938 Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship 1939 The "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in New York 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William M. King agree to a joint defense commission 1940 Adolf Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain 1941 German raider attacks Dutch steamship Kota Nopan 1942 The first European bombing run is undertaken by U.S. forces 1942 The first US/8th Air Force bombs hit Europe 1942 Task Force 17 departs Pearl Harbor 1942 Transport departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany 1942 U.S. bombers staged the first independent raid on Europe: Rouen, France 1943 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde 1943 General Patton enters Messina 1944 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy 1944 Russian troops arrive at the Austria-Prussia border 1944 The U.S. 12 Army Corp occupies Orleans 1944 The U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun 1945 Korea is divided on the 38th parallel 1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent 1950 Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands 1951 Hurricane winds drive six ships ashore on Kingston, Jamaica 1956 Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany 1957 TWO Richie Ashburn foul hits strike a fan: Alice Roth was hit twice, one breaks her nose, the other hits her while she is on the stretcher 1959 A 7.1 earthquake hits Yellowstone National Park 1959 The U.S.S.R. and Iraq sign contracts for building Iraqi nuclear reactor 1960 The Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow 1960 Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands 1961 Building of the Berlin Wall begins 1961 Kennedy administration establishes the Alliance for Progress 1962 East German border guards shot and killed Peter Fechter, 18, while he was attempting to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector 1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit 1969 Hurricane Camille kills 256 people in Mississippi and Louisiana 1973 Lee Trevino hit his 1st hole-in-one 1976 An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000 people 1977 The Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is the first to reach the North Pole 1977 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear tests 1979 Two Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed 1979 Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres 1982 A South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin 1983 Hurricane Alicia kills 17 people in Texas 1985 Sara Trollinger forms the House of Hope in Orlando, FL 1986 Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am 1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship 1986 Rioting at DMC concert: 40 people are injured 1987 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,700 for first time 1987 Mohammad Ali is elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame 1988 LIRR says that Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991 1988 New York City reports its case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: a 9-year old boy 1988 Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president 1988 U.S. performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment 1994 The New York Central park reservoir is officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis 1995 China performs a nuclear test 1997 First of America Senior Golf Classic |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1586 Johann V. Andreae 1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora 1720 Charles D J Eisen 1775 Philippe Libon 1779 Franz de Paula Roser 1786 Davy Crockett 1811 Johannes H. Scholten 1817 Joseph Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove 1819 James Henry Van Alen 1828 George William Warren 1834 Peter Benoit 1839 Hubert Platt Main 1844 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia 1851 Henry Drummond 1856 Violet Paget 1870 Frederick Russell 1876 Eric Drummond 1880 Leo Ascher 1880 Percy Sherwell 1882 Samuel Goldwyn, [Goldfish], movie producer, MGM 1885 Kurt Hiller 1887 Charles I 1887 Marcus Garvey 1888 Monty Wooley 1890 Harry L. Hopkins 1892 Mae West 1894 Erik A Blomberg 1894 Johan Polet 1896 Henry P de Vries 1898 Gerard Schmook 1900 Quincy Howe 1901 Henri Tomasi 1903 Abram Chasins 1905 John Hay Whitney 1906 Hazel Bishop 1910 J. A. Manusama 1910 R. Peyrefitte 1911 Frederik de Merode 1911 Jan Lode Cantens 1912 Edgar Fernhout 1914 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. 1916 Eleanor Steber 1916 John de Young 1917 Jiang Zemin 1917 P. Roger Peyrefitte 1917 Safa Khulusi 1918 Mort Marshall 1920 Georgia Gibbs 1921 Geoffery Rudolph Elton 1921 Maureen O'Hara 1922 Paul Wiens 1922 Ralph Roberts 1922 Roy Tattersall 1923 Anton Kersjes 1924 Evan S. Connell 1924 Helen Wallis 1924 John A. Emmens 1924 Laurence Richard Deniz 1925 John Hawkes 1925 John Howard Purnell 1926 Haakon Barfod 1926 Jean Poiret 1927 Robert Moore 1928 Jean R. Adams 1928 Thomas Jefferson Anderson 1928 Willem Duys 1929 Francis Gary Powers 1930 James Gulliver 1930 Ted Hughes 1932 Chet Allen 1932 V. S. Naipaul 1932 Vidiadhar S. Naipaul 1934 Maureen Connally 1936 Ivan Parik 1937 Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Illyin 1939 Luther Allison 1940 David E. Price 1940 Thomas Williams 1941 Boog Powell 1941 Ibrahim Babangida 1943 Edward Cowie 1943 Koos Postema 1943 Robert De Niro 1943 Yukio Kasaya 1946 Hans Vandenburg 1947 Gary Talley 1948 Bo Rucker 1949 Norm Coleman 1949 Sib Hashian 1951 Alan Minter 1951 Robert Joy 1952 Guillermo Vilas 1952 Kathryn C. Thornton 1952 Nelson Piquet 1952 Thomas J. Hennen 1953 Kevin Rowlands 1953 Robert Brent Thirsk 1955 Colin Moulding 1955 Janet Quist Austin 1955 Kevin Welch 1958 Belinda Carlisle 1959 David Koresh 1960 Bruce Penhall 1960 Sean Penn 1961 Jamie Macoun 1962 Gilby Clarke 1963 Carmen Berg 1964 Pete McCutcheon 1965 Dottie Mochrie Pepper 1965 Fred Grim 1965 Glen Goldsmith 1965 Robert Manry 1965 Steve Gorman 1966 Cedric Figaro 1966 Zefross Moss 1967 James Jenkins 1967 Kenny Davidson 1967 Nelson Emerson 1968 Ed McCaffrey 1968 Vince Marrow 1969 Christian Laettner 1969 Donald E. Wahlberg, Jr. 1969 Ed Cunningham 1969 Maria Strandlund 1970 Bernard Wilson 1970 Brad Bretz 1970 Jim Courier 1972 Ernie Conwell 1973 A J Wood 1973 Kerry Mock 1973 Paul Wiggins 1973 Tim Forsyth 1977 Jake Patellis 1986 Bryton McClure 1991 Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik |
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