WillDekkard
08-13-2010, 04:09 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - August 17th
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* 986 A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron. The Byzantine emperor Basil II narrowly escaped.
* 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.
* 1862 Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
* 1862 American Civil War: Major General JEB Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
* 1863 American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
* 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
* 1883 The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
* 1907 Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle.
* 1908 Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, realized by Ιmile Cohl, is shown in Paris.
* 1914 World War I: Battle of Stalluponen The German army of General Hermann von Franηois defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
* 1915 Jewish 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.
* 1942 U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
* 1942 World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force begins regular combat operations in Europe with an attack on the marshalling yards at Rouen-Sotteville.
* 1943 The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
* 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 L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
* 1943 World War II: First Quιbec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
* 1945 Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
* 1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
* 1953 Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
* 1959 Quake Lake: Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
* 1959 Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
* 1960 Decolonization: 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 becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
* 1969 Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
* 1970 Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become 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, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
* 1982 The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
* 1988 Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
* 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 İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
* 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.
* 2005 Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh
* 2008 By winning the Men's 4x100m medley relay, Michael Phelps becomes the first Olympian to win eight gold medals in the same Olympics.
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This Date in History - August 17th
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* 986 A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron. The Byzantine emperor Basil II narrowly escaped.
* 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.
* 1862 Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
* 1862 American Civil War: Major General JEB Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
* 1863 American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
* 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
* 1883 The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
* 1907 Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle.
* 1908 Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, realized by Ιmile Cohl, is shown in Paris.
* 1914 World War I: Battle of Stalluponen The German army of General Hermann von Franηois defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
* 1915 Jewish 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.
* 1942 U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
* 1942 World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force begins regular combat operations in Europe with an attack on the marshalling yards at Rouen-Sotteville.
* 1943 The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
* 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 L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
* 1943 World War II: First Quιbec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
* 1945 Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
* 1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
* 1953 Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
* 1959 Quake Lake: Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
* 1959 Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
* 1960 Decolonization: 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 becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
* 1969 Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
* 1970 Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become 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, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
* 1982 The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
* 1988 Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
* 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 İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
* 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.
* 2005 Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh
* 2008 By winning the Men's 4x100m medley relay, Michael Phelps becomes the first Olympian to win eight gold medals in the same Olympics.
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