Notable Historical Events on August 17th
August 17th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
682 |
St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1180 |
Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against Kiyomori Taira who installed his grandson, Emperor Antoku, to the throne |
1544 |
Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France |
1563 |
King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult |
1577 |
Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots |
1579 |
Francois van Anjou visits English Queen Elizabeth I |
1585 |
Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma |
1590 |
John White returns to Roanoke, NC to find no trace of colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591] |
1648 |
-20] Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish |
1717 |
France, Russia & Prussia sign agreement |
1743 |
Sweden & Russia sign peace treaty |
1787 |
Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups |
1788 |
Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded |
1795 |
Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curacao |
1796 |
British beat Batavian navy in Saldanha Bay South Africa |
1807 |
Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River |
1808 |
Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain |
1819 |
The Church Missionary Society establishes New Zealand's second mission station at Kerikeri |
1827 |
Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord |
1834 |
Charles Darwin reaches top of Campana Chile during his Voyage on the Beagle |
1835 |
Solymon Merrick patents wrench |
1836 |
British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death |
1836 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time |
1846 |
US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California |
1858 |
1st bank in Hawaii opens |
1859 |
1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette, Indiana |
1862 |
Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky |
1863 |
Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC |
1863 |
Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee |
1866 |
Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty |
1869 |
1st international boat race (River Thames, Oxford beats Harvard) |
1870 |
1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington |
1870 |
Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st US woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming) |
1876 |
Wagner's opera "Götterdämmerung" premieres in Bayreuth |
1877 |
Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos |
1879 |
Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company |
1883 |
The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. |
1891 |
1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath) |
1891 |
Electric self-starter for automobile patented |
1892 |
Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Double Alliance |
1894 |
Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4 |
1897 |
W B Purvis patents electric railway switch |
1901 |
The Royal Titles Act adds the words 'and the British Dominions beyond the Seas' to the monarch's style |
1903 |
Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia University & begins Pulitzer Prizes |
1904 |
Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0 |
1904 |
George H Reid succeeds John Watson as Prime Minister of Australia |
1905 |
Dutch government of De Master begins |
1907 |
Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union |
1908 |
B Tarkington & HL Wilson's "Man from Home" premieres in NYC |
1908 |
Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery |
1908 |
Projection in Paris of the very first animated cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl. |
1914 |
French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins |
1914 |
Lithuiana surrenders to Germans |
1915 |
German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana |
1915 |
Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed) |
1915 |
Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life |
1916 |
Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia |
1917 |
Italy declares war on Turkey |
1918 |
British troops attack Baku, Azerbaijan |
1918 |
Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000 |
1918 |
Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus |
1918 |
Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. |
1920 |
In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians |
1924 |
French-German trade agreement signed |
1926 |
Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed |
1933 |
Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game |
1933 |
Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") |
1938 |
1st aircraft owned by US Forest Service in service (Oakland) |
1938 |
Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship |
1939 |
"Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY |
1940 |
FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission |
1940 |
Greece mobilizes |
1940 |
Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain |
1941 |
German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan |
1942 |
Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on USS Hornet |
1942 |
Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942 |
US bombers 8th Air Force stage 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France |
1943 |
498 British bombers attack Peenemunde |
1943 |
Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies |
1943 |
US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt |
1944 |
4th Canadian Armoured division occupiers Trun, Normandy |
1944 |
Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise, Normandy |
1944 |
German field marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy |
1944 |
Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border |
1944 |
US 12 Army Corps occupies Orleans |
1944 |
US 320th regiment infantry occupies Châteaudun |
1944 |
Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game |
1945 |
Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) declares independence from The Netherlands |
1945 |
Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area |
1946 |
Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique" premieres |
1946 |
George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom |
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 |
1948 |
Phillies commit 8 errors in a game |
1948 |
Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season |
1950 |
Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands |
1950 |
Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs |
1951 |
18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180) |
1951 |
Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica |
1952 |
"Fallout" 1st used (NY Times) |
1952 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
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 |
1956 |
Federal Constitutional Court bans the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in West Germany |
1956 |
One of the largest demonstrations in South Africa's history, 20,000 women marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings to present petition against carrying of passes by women to the Prime Minister |
1957 |
Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher |
1958 |
Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open |
1958 |
World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec |
1959 |
7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park |
1959 |
USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor |
1960 |
Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow |
1960 |
Gabon gains independence from France (National Day) |
1960 |
Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands |
1961 |
Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress |
1962 |
E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector |
1963 |
Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle |
1963 |
Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief |
1964 |
Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval |
1966 |
Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit |
1966 |
Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list |
1968 |
Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ |
1969 |
Hurricane Camille strikes US coastline and kills 259 people (mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana) |
1969 |
51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR GC Dayton Ohio |
1969 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open |
1969 |
NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season) |
1970 |
Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched |
1972 |
Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game |
1973 |
Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one |
1973 |
Willie Mays hits 660th & last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati) |
1975 |
Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
1976 |
An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000 |
1976 |
Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match |
1977 |
Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole |
1977 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977 |
Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8) |
1978 |
1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans) |
1979 |
2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed |
1979 |
Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres |
1980 |
"Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances |
1980 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
1980 |
George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401 |
1980 |
Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history |
1982 |
LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18) |
1982 |
South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin |
1982 |
The first Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany. |
1983 |
-19] Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas |
1984 |
Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) |
1985 |
1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant |
1985 |
Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India |
1985 |
Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando |
1986 |
Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market |
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 injured |
1986 |
Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson |
1987 |
Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games |
1987 |
Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57) |
1987 |
Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame |
1988 |
Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29) |
1988 |
LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991 |
1988 |
NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) |
1988 |
US Republicans nominate George W H Bush for President |
1988 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1988 |
Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. |
1989 |
32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½ |
1989 |
Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game) |
1990 |
"Exorcist 3" premieres |
1990 |
Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR |
1990 |
Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment |
1991 |
Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983 |
1992 |
Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0 |
1994 |
Lesotho King Letsie II dismisses premier Ntsu Mokhehle |
1994 |
NY Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis |
1995 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1996 |
Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit |
1997 |
79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC |
1997 |
First of America Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Macy's Tap-o-mania |
1997 |
Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open |
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. |
2003 |
85th PGA Championship: Shaun Micheel shoots a 276 at Oak Hill Country Club |
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. |
2012 |
Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years |
2012 |
Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow |
2013 |
15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo |
2013 |
18 people are killed in conflict between Boko Harem and Nigerian military |
2016 |
Ford Promises Fleets of Driverless Cars Within Five Years |
2016 |
Airstrike in Yemen Kills 17 Civilians, Witnesses Say |
2016 |
Turkey dismisses more than 2000 police officers over coup bid |
2016 |
Gymnastics: China misses gold for first time in more than 30 years |
2016 |
Biles wins floor exercise for record-tying 4th Olympic gold |
2016 |
Gawker Media sold to Univision in bankruptcy auction |
2016 |
Son of drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman kidnapped in Mexico |
2016 |
Ford's self-driving car 'coming in 2021' |
2016 |
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard settle divorce |
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