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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-08-20
Births
1562-08-17 - Hans Leo Hassler (baptised), German composer (d. 1612)
1578-08-17 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1601-08-17 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1629-08-17 - King John III of Poland (d. 1696)
1768-08-17 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1786-08-17 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1828-08-17 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1844-08-17 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1863-08-17 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
1866-08-17 - Julia Marlowe, Shakespearean actress (d. 1950)
1873-08-17 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
1882-08-17 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1887-08-17 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican leader, Rastafari prophet (d. 1940)
1887-08-17 - Emperor Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
1890-08-17 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946)
1890-08-17 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1893-08-17 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
1896-08-17 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
1904-08-17 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1911-08-17 - Mikhail Botvinnik, chess player (d. 1995)
1913-08-17 - W. Mark Felt, FBI associate director and Watergate informant
1913-08-17 - Rudy York, baseball player (d. 1970)
1914-08-17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1988)
1920-08-17 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
1926-08-17 - Jiang Zemin, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China
1929-08-17 - Francis Gary Powers, U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
1930-08-17 - Glenn Corbett, actor (d. 1993)
1930-08-17 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
1932-08-17 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate
1933-08-17 - Gene Kranz, NASA flight director
1935-08-17 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
1938-08-17 - Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric
1939-08-17 - Luther Allison, American blues guitarist
1943-08-17 - Robert De Niro, American actor
1943-08-17 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues guitarist (d. 2002)
1948-08-17 - Rod MacDonald, American musician
1951-08-17 - Alan Minter, boxer
1952-08-17 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian Formula One driver
1952-08-17 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1953-08-17 - Judith Regan, American book publisher
1954-08-17 - Eric Johnson, guitarist
1955-08-17 - Richard Hilton, American heir
1956-08-17 - Gail Berman, president of Paramount Pictures
1957-08-17 - Robin Cousins, British figure skater
1958-08-17 - Belinda Carlisle, American singer
1958-08-17 - Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
1959-08-17 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1959-08-17 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
1960-08-17 - Sean Penn, American actor, director
1962-08-17 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses
1964-08-17 - Colin James, blues musician
1966-08-17 - Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1966-08-17 - William E. Dudley, American poet
1968-08-17 - Ed McCaffrey, American football player
1969-08-17 - Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer
1970-08-17 - Jim Courier, American tennis player
1970-08-17 - Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
1970-08-17 - Oyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
1971-08-17 - Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1971-08-17 - Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1977-08-17 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977-08-17 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer (Nightwish)
1977-08-17 - William Gallas, French footballer
1979-08-17 - Antwaan Randle El, American football player
1980-08-17 - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
1980-08-17 - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982-08-17 - Akisha Samia, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1982-08-17 - Melissa Anderson, independent professional wrestler
1985-08-17 - Reda Wahid, Lebanese footballer
1986-08-17 - Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1986-08-17 - Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
1990-08-17 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
1473-08-17 - Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?)
Bizarre
2006-08-17 - National Thriftshop Day
2007-08-17 - National Thriftshop Day
Deaths
1153-08-17 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304-08-17 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1510-08-17 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
1657-08-17 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
1673-08-17 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676-08-17 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
1720-08-17 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
1723-08-17 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
1785-08-17 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786-08-17 - King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
1834-08-17 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
1850-08-17 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
1850-08-17 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (b. 1799)
1875-08-17 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (b. 1827)
1880-08-17 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
1896-08-17 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
1901-08-17 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
1918-08-17 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
1920-08-17 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
1925-08-17 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
1940-08-17 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
1954-08-17 - Billy Murray, recording artist (b. 1877)
1962-08-17 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
1969-08-17 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)
1971-08-17 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973-08-17 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1973-08-17 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1973-08-17 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
1979-08-17 - Vivian Vance, actress (b. 1909)
1983-08-17 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1987-08-17 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
1988-08-17 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988-08-17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1914)
1990-08-17 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
1992-08-17 - Al Parker, actor (b. 1952)
1995-08-17 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
2004-08-17 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
2005-08-17 - John Bahcall, astrophysicist (b. 1934)
Declared
2007-08-17 - Independence Day – observance in Indonesia.
2007-08-17 - Día del Libertador - observed in Argentina, on the day when José de San Martín died.
Events
1427-08-17 - First band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.
1807-08-17 - 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.
1862-08-17 - Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) uprising begins in Minnesota as desperate Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
1863-08-17 - American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
1864-08-17 - American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville - Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
1877-08-17 - After he is fatally wounded, Arizona blacksmith F.P. Cahill becomes the first person killed by Billy the Kid.
1883-08-17 - The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Quisqueyanos valientes.
1914-08-17 - World War I: Battle of Stalluponen - The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
1915-08-17 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia.
1918-08-17 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1933-08-17 - New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig played his 1,308th consecutive game, breaking Everett Scott's record. He would continue the streak until 1939.
1942-08-17 - U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
1943-08-17 - World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
1943-08-17 - World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive 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.
1943-08-17 - World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1945-08-17 - Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
1953-08-17 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1960-08-17 - Gabon gains independence from France.
1962-08-17 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. He thus became the first victim of the wall.
1963-08-17 - A ferry linking remote islands off the coast of Okinawa sinks, killing 112.
1969-08-17 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
1970-08-17 - Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1978-08-17 - 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.
1979-08-17 - Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 156
1980-08-17 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
1988-08-17 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1991-08-17 - Wade Frankum starts his killing spree in Strathfield, Australia, an event that was later dubbed the Strathfield Massacre.
1998-08-17 - 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 relationshi
1999-08-17 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2004-08-17 - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
2004-08-17 - 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.
2005-08-17 - The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
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2008-08-20
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