What happened on August 17?
**August 17 is National Thrift Shop Day**
***You are a Leo***
Events:
1790- The capital of the US is moved from New York City to Philadelphia.
1896-Gold
is discovered in Alaska, setting off the Klondike
gold rush.
1943-The US 7th Army under George
S. Patton arrives in Messina,
Italy
1945- Indonesia claimed it's independence against from the Netherlands.
1970-Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet, Venus.
1979-Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine killing 156
1978-Maxie
Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry
Newman land near Paris, completing the world's first crossing of the
Atlantic by hot air balloon.
1999- The earthquake and Tsunami of August 17, 1999 in Turkey occurs. The earthquake was of a 7.4 magnitude, killing more than 17,000 people.
Births:
Davy Crockett-1786, frontiersman, soldier, took part in the Battle of the Alamo.
Robert
De Niro(Picture Below)-1943, actor, work on Hide
and Seek, Meet the
Fockers, Shark Tale,
Meet the Parents, The
Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Sleepers,
Heat, The
Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980, Pollock,
and more.
Belinda Carlisle(Picture below)-1958, singer, guitarist, did work in Fahrenheit 9/11, 13 Going On 30, Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Sean Penn(Picture below)-1960, actor, director, did work on Mystic River, Being John Malkovich, 21 Grams,
Thierry Henry (Picture below)-1977, French Foot Ball Star, played in France's 1998 World Cup
Deaths:
1850- Jose de San Martin, liberator of Chile, dies
1896-Bridget Driscoll, World's First automobile fatality
1973-Jean Barraqué, composer
1973 - Conrad Aiken, American Pulitzer Prize winning author
1988-Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq was killed in a plane crash.
1991-Singer-actress Pearl Bailey dies in Philadelphia at age 72.
Holidays:
Rastafarianism- celebration of the birth of Marcus Garvey
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