Friday, August 17, 2012

August 17th in History


1862 - American Civil War: Major General J.E.B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.

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 Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

1943 - World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

1959 - Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.

1960 - Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.

1982 - The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.

Famous Birthdays:

1556 - Alexander Briant, English Jesuit and martyr

1786 - Princess Marie Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Princess of Leiningen, Duchess of Kent, Mother of Queen Victoria

1844 - Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia

1887 - Emperor Charles I of Austria

1928 - T. J. Anderson, composer

1943 - Robert De Niro, actor

1951 - Robert Joy, actor

1968 - Helen McCrory, actress

1980 - Lene Marlin, singer





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