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What happend on 17. August in History
In our data base we found 310 events happened on 17. August:
• 986: A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of the Gate of Trajan by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron. The Byzantine emperor Basil II narrowly escaped. [category: Events]
• 1153: Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne (b. 1130) [category: Deaths]
• 1304: Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243) [category: Deaths]
• 1473: Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (d. 1483) [category: Births]
• 1510: Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462) [category: Deaths]
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• 1556: Alexander Briant, English martyr (d. 1581) [category: Births]
• 1578: Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660) [category: Births]
• 1601: Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665) [category: Births]
• 1629: John III Sobieski, Polish king (d. 1696) [category: Births]
• 1657: Robert Blake, English admiral (b. 1599) [category: Deaths]
• 1673: Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641) [category: Deaths]
• 1676: Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621) [category: Deaths]
• 1686: Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768) [category: Births]
• 1720: Anne Dacier, French scholar (b. 1654) [category: Deaths]
• 1723: Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668) [category: Deaths]
• 1753: Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828) [category: Births]
• 1768: Louis Desaix, French general (d. 1800) [category: Births]
• 1768: Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703) [category: Deaths]
• 1785: Jonathan Trumbull, American politician (b. 1710) [category: Deaths]
• 1786: Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (d. 1836) [category: Births]
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• 1786: Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1861) [category: Births]
• 1786: Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849) [category: Births]
• 1807: Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York, for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. [category: Events]
• 1828: Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897) [category: Births]
• 1834: Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802) [category: Deaths]
• 1838: Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist and poet (b. 1749) [category: Deaths]
• 1840: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and writer (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1844: Menelik II of Ethiopia (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1850: José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778) [category: Deaths]
• 1861: Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician (b. 1806) [category: Deaths]
• 1862: American Civil War: Major General J.E.B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1862: American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. [category: Events]
• 1863: Gene Stratton-Porter, American author (d. 1924) [category: Births]
• 1863: American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter. [category: Events]
• 1864: American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville – Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida. [category: Events]
• 1866: Julia Marlowe, English actress (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1866: Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, Indian 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1870: Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and activist (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1873: John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1875: Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827) [category: Deaths]
• 1877: Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1878: Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1880: Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1880: Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (b. 1810) [category: Deaths]
• 1883: The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. [category: Events]
• 1887: Charles I of Austria (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1887: Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1888: Monty Woolley, American actor (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1890: Harry Hopkins, American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1890: Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1893: Mae West, American actress (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1895: Aris Maliagros, Greek actor (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1896: Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1896: Bridget Driscoll, English automobile fatality (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1897: William Jervois, English colonial administrator, 10th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1901: Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (b. 1825) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1904: Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1907: Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, Washington, opened. [category: Events]
• 1908: Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France. [category: Events]
• 1909: Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1909: Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Martin Sandberger, German military officer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1911: Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1913: Mark Felt, American agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1913: Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine race car driver (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1913: Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1914: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American politician (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1914: World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. [category: Events]
• 1915: A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h). [category: Events]
• 1915: Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States. [category: Events]
• 1916: Moses Majekodunmi, Nigerian politician (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1918: Evelyn Ankers, Chilean-American actress (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1918: Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and statesman (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. [category: Events]
• 1919: Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1920: Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1920: Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1921: Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1922: Roy Tattersall, England cricketer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1924: Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian-Romanian journalist and writer (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: George Melly, English singer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1926: Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1926: Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician [category: Births]
• 1926: Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman and editor [category: Births]
• 1928: T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator [category: Births]
• 1928: Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1929: Francis Gary Powers, American pilot (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1929: Jimmy Donley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1930: Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1930: Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1932: V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English writer, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1933: Gene Kranz, American NASA flight director and manager [category: Births]
• 1933: Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1933: Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1934: João Donato, Brazilian pianist and composer [category: Births]
• 1935: Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor [category: Births]
• 1935: Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American activist and writer (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor, singer, and activist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1937: Ronnie Butler, Bahamian singer [category: Births]
• 1937: Spiros Focás, Greek actor [category: Births]
• 1938: Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian cleric [category: Births]
• 1938: Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1939: Luther Allison, American guitarist (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1940: Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1940: Billy Fiske, American pilot (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian director [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari). [category: Events]
• 1943: Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Koerner, Ray & Glover) (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1943: John Humphrys Welsh broadcaster and journalist [category: Births]
• 1943: Robert De Niro, American actor [category: Births]
• 1943: World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. [category: Events]
• 1943: World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. [category: Events]
• 1943: World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. [category: Events]
• 1943: World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. [category: Events]
• 1944: Larry Ellison, American businessman, co-founded the Oracle Corporation [category: Births]
• 1945: Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. [category: Events]
• 1946: Patrick Manning, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago [category: Births]
• 1947: Jennifer Rhodes, American actress [category: Births]
• 1947: Sylvia Nasar, German-American economist and author [category: Births]
• 1947: The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed. [category: Events]
• 1948: Rod MacDonald, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1949: Julian Fellowes, English actor, director, and writer [category: Births]
• 1949: Norm Coleman, American politician [category: Births]
• 1949: Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist and politician (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Hill 303 massacre: American POWs were massacred by the North Korean Army. [category: Events]
• 1951: Alan Minter, English boxer [category: Births]
• 1951: Elba Ramalho, Brazilian singer [category: Births]
• 1951: Robert Joy, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1952: Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1952: Mario Theissen, German motorsport director [category: Births]
• 1952: Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1953: Kevin Rowland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dexys Midnight Runners) [category: Births]
• 1953: Mick Malthouse, Australian footballer and coach [category: Births]
• 1953: Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California. [category: Events]
• 1954: Andrés Pastrana Arango, Colombian politician, 38th President of Colombia [category: Births]
• 1954: Eric Johnson, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1954: Billy Murray, American singer (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Richard Hilton, American businessman [category: Births]
• 1956: Gail Berman, American film executive, co-founded BermanBraun [category: Births]
• 1956: Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist [category: Births]
• 1957: Ken Kwapis, American director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1957: Laurence Overmire, American poet and actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Robin Cousins, English figure skater [category: Births]
• 1958: Belinda Carlisle, American singer-songwriter, and author (The Go-Go's) [category: Births]
• 1958: Fred Goodwin, English banker [category: Births]
• 1958: Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player [category: Births]
• 1958: Arthur Fox, American fencer (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country. [category: Events]
• 1959: Chika Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1959: David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1959: Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1959: Jonathan Franzen, American author [category: Births]
• 1959: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released. [category: Events]
• 1959: Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. [category: Events]
• 1960: Sean Penn, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1960: Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer-songwriter (Grauzone) [category: Births]
• 1960: Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France. [category: Events]
• 1961: Larry B. Scott, American actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Russell T. McCutcheon, Canadian scholar [category: Births]
• 1962: Buddy Landel, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1962: Gilby Clarke, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Guns N' Roses, Rock Star Supernova, and Candy) [category: Births]
• 1962: John Marshall Jones, American actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director [category: Births]
• 1962: Peter Fechter, German murder victim (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall. [category: Events]
• 1963: Jon Gruden, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1963: Shankar, Indian director and producer [category: Births]
• 1964: Colin James, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer [category: Births]
• 1964: Maria McKee, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1964: Happy Felsch, American baseball player (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1966: Maysa Leak, American singer and producer (Incognito) [category: Births]
• 1966: Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder [category: Births]
• 1967: David Conrad, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Andrew Koenig, American actor, director, and writer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1968: Ed McCaffrey, American football player [category: Births]
• 1968: Helen McCrory, English actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Christian Laettner, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Donnie Wahlberg, American singer, actor, and producer (New Kids on the Block) [category: Births]
• 1969: Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage. [category: Events]
• 1970: Jim Courier, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1970: Rupert Degas, English actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). [category: Events]
• 1971: Ed Motta, Brazilian singer and musician [category: Births]
• 1971: Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer [category: Births]
• 1973: Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (The Temptations) (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Tony Hajjar, Lebanese-American drummer (At the Drive-In and Sparta) [category: Births]
• 1975: Giuliana Rancic, Italian-American journalist and actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist [category: Births]
• 1976: Scott Halberstadt, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: William Redfield, American actor (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist (Lostprophets and Public Disturbance) [category: Births]
• 1977: Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker [category: Births]
• 1977: Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer-songwriter and composer (Nightwish) [category: Births]
• 1977: Thierry Henry, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: William Gallas, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. [category: Events]
• 1978: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Karena Lam, Hong Kong actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania) [category: Births]
• 1978: Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. [category: Events]
• 1979: Antwaan Randle El, American football player [category: Births]
• 1979: Marcus Patric, English actor [category: Births]
• 1979: John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Daniel Güiza, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer [category: Births]
• 1980: Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1980: Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history. [category: Events]
• 1981: Kristin Adams, American television host [category: Births]
• 1982: Cheerleader Melissa, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1982: Mark Salling, American actor, singer-songwriter, and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1982: Phil Jagielka, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany. [category: Events]
• 1983: Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Dee Brown, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Garrett Wolfe, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Brock Kelly, American actor [category: Births]
• 1985: Yū Aoi, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Bryton James, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1986: Rudy Gay, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1987: Kemp Muhl, American model, actress, and singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Matthew Shultz, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cage the Elephant) [category: Births]
• 1987: Gary Chester, Italian drummer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Rudolf Hess, German nazi politician (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Bianca Collins, American actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Brady Corbet, American actor [category: Births]
• 1988: Erika Toda, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani politician, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. [category: Events]
• 1989: Elena Hight, American snowboarder [category: Births]
• 1989: Frederick Lau, German actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Lil B, American rapper (The Pack) [category: Births]
• 1990: Colin Bates, American actor [category: Births]
• 1990: Lauren Diewold, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Austin Butler, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1991: Qory Sandioriva, Indonesian model, Puteri Indonesia 2009 [category: Births]
• 1992: Britani Knight, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1992: Al Parker, American porn actor, director, and producer (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Cinta Laura, German-Indonesian actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1993: Madison McReynolds, American actress [category: Births]
• 1993: Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Taissa Farmiga, American actress [category: Births]
• 1994: Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Howard E. Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Ted Whitten, Australian footballer (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Ella Cruz, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1998: Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Władysław Komar, Polish athlete (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Lewinsky scandal: US President 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 the relationship. [category: Events]
• 1999: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. [category: Events]
• 2003: Mazen Dana, Palestinian journalist (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Gérard Souzay, French singer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country. [category: Events]
• 2005: John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh [category: Events]
• 2005: The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, starts. [category: Events]
• 2006: Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Jos Brink, Dutch actor, producer, and author (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games. [category: Events]
• 2009: An accident at the Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area. [category: Events]
• 2010: Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President of Italy (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Aase Bjerkholt, Norwegian politician (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Lou Martin, Irish pianist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Patrick Ricard, French businessman (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Pál Bogár, Hungarian basketball player (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Shirley W. Palmer-Ball, American politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Willem G. van Maanen, Dutch journalist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• _: August 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Clare of the Cross [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hyacinth of Poland [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the proclamation of Indonesia's independence from Japan in 1945. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mammes of Caesarea (Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Portunalia (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Prekmurje Union Day (Slovenia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: San Martin Day (Argentina) [category: Holidays and observances]