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- 1227 Death of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.
- 1717 George Boone, the grandfather of pioneer and American folk hero Daniel Boone sails to America from Bradninch, England
- 1787 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
- 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.
- 1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
- 1812 Frigate President captures British schooner L'Adeline in North Atlantic
- 1836 Visitor posting - 17 8 1836 Birth Marriage & Death register introduced in Britain - United Kingdom
- 1846 US takes Los Angeles
- 1850 Jose de San Martin, liberator of Chile, dies.
- 1859 Circus acrobat Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 1862 Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as vicious Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
- 1863 Federal batteries & ships bombard Fort Sumter, Charleston
- 1869 The first international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard)
- 1870 Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
- 1870 The first ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
- 1870 Western Australia is granted representative government
- 1883 The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Quisqueyanos valientes.
- 1896 Gold is discovered on Klondike River
- 1907 Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle.
- 1908 Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
- 1914 The Belgian government moves its offices from Brussels to Antwerp.
- 1915 Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia.
- 1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
- 1915 SS Glenby, this Ropner ship was sunk by gunfire from a U boat St. George's Channel. The Germans then machine gunned the survivors in the life boats, killing two and seriously wounding two others
- 1918 Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
- 1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
- 1926 Visitor posting - Don Ensch born
- 1938 Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
- 1940 FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
- 1940 Visitor posting - John Joseph James Higgins born to Edith and Jim in NYC - USA
- 1942 Submarines USS Nautilus and USS Argonaut land 222 Marines on Makin Island, first amphibious attack made from submarines
- 1942 U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
- 1942 US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
- 1943 World War II: First Qubec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
- 1943 World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
- 1945 Indonesia declares independence from Netherlands (National Day)
- 1945 Indonesia proclaims its independence from Holland.
- 1945 Indonesian Declaration of Independence. Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published by Fredric Warburg
- 1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
- 1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
- 1950 Indonesia gains independence from the Netherlands
- 1951 Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
- 1953 Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
- 1955 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage
- 1957 Visitor posting - Phyllis Olson and John Ghinder were married
- 1958 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
- 1959 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
- 1959 ADM Arleigh Burke reappointed CNO for 3rd 2 year term, serving longest term as CNO
- 1959 Quake Lake: Quake Lake was formed by a 7.5 rated earthquake in Montana.
- 1960 Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.
- 1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
- 1960 Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
- 1960 The west African country of Gabon gains its independence from France.
- 1961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
- 1962 Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
- 1962 E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
- 1962 East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming the first victim of the wall.
- 1962 Navy's first hydrofoil patrol craft, USS High Point (PCH-1) launched at Seattle, WA
- 1963 A ferry linking remote islands off the coast of Okinawa sinks, killing 112.
- 1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
- 1969 Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
- 1969 Hurricane Camille claims more than 250
- 1970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
- 1970 Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
- 1972 In New Britain a 7.1 earthquake caused a two-foot tsunami at Pomino on southeast New Britain
- 1972 Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
- 1973 Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
- 1973 US archaeologists in Greece uncover evidence that people went to sea as early as 7500 BC
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again
- 1974 Visitor posting - Aug 17,1974 David S was born in Daytona Beach
- 1974 Visitor posting - Denise D. Thanh was Born!, Da Nang VN 12AM
- 1974 Visitor posting - K.D. was born in Trinidad
- 1977 Visitor posting - Eric D. Frazier was born at 5:56am, Hickory, NC - USA
- 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.
- 1978 The first manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
- 1979 Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 156
- 1979 Visitor posting - Julieann Heuga was born 1:30am - USA
- 1979 Vivian Vance actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 72
- 1980 Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
- 1980 Midway relieved Constellation to begin another Indian Ocean deployment and complement Eisenhower task group still on contingency duty in the Arabian Sea
- 1982 Barney Phillips actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68
- 1982 South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
- 1982 The first Compact Discs (CD's) were released to the public in Germany.
- 1983 Ira Gershwin lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills, Cal, at 86
- 1984 Visitor posting - Jessica Cyr was born - USA
- 1985 Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR
- 1985 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
- 1986 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
- 1987 Rudolph Hess Nazi, dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison
- 1988 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
- 1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
- 1988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq pres of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63 in plane crash
- 1988 NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
- 1988 Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
- 1990 "The Exorcist 3" premiers
- 1990 Pearl Bailey broadway actress/singer, dies at 72 from a heart attack
- 1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
- 1991 Wade Frankum runs amok with automatic rifle and knife at Strathfield in Sydney, killing seven people and himself.
- 1992 Visitor posting - August 17, 1992 Lorena V. was born in Brasilia, Brazil
- 1992 Visitor posting - Stephen K Stegman was born in Morristown, Tn.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Eric Keith Strickland is born in Texas - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Maddie Masscre Was Born In Calgary Alberta :) - Canada
- 1995 Visitor posting - Shannon Costley was born Virginia - USA
- 1998 Monica 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 his relationship.
- 1999 A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes zmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
- 2000 Visitor posting - Daisy Byles is born - USA
- 2000 Visitor posting - Jabien Cawthon was born! - USA
- 2004 MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
- 2004 The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde 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.
- 2007 Disney Channel's High School Musical 2 debuted in the United States and on Family Channel in Canada, making it the most watched US basic cable show in recorded history, a record that would stand until ESPN's telecast of the Monday Night Football game between the New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens on December 3rd of that year.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Ernie and Zigjetta crossed paths - USA
- 2009 A bomb explodes on a truck at a fuel station in Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan (20 km from Peshawar), killing seven people.
- 2009 A suicide bomber explodes a truck at a police station in Nazran in Russia's North Caucasus, killing at least 20 people and wounding about 60 others.
- 2009 An accident at the Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Russia kills seven and causes power shortages in Siberia.
- 2009 Japan officially exits the recession.
- 2009 The Canadian Forces begin exercises to protect Canada's sovereignty in the far north.
- 2009 The MV Arctic Sea, a cargo ship missing after an apparent hijacking in July off the Swedish coast, is discovered by the Russian Navy off Cape Verde.
- 2009 The actor Miguel Magno, of the series Toma Lá, Dá Cá dies at the age 58.
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