Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 17

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  Hurricane Camille
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  Robert Fulton
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  Soldiers lay flowers at the memorial for the Hill 303 massacre
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  Damage from the 1999 earthquake at İzmit, Turkey
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  Miles Davis
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  Soviet icebreaker NS Arktika
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  Michael Phelps
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  Battle of Verneuil
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  Richard Wagner
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  Sukarno proclaiming Indonesia's independence, with Hatta on the right
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  Roosevelt and Churchill in Quebec, with Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Gabon (1960)	refimprove section
1424 – Hundred Years' War: Allied English and Burgundian forces gained a strategically important victory at the bloody Battle of Verneuil in Normandy, France.	Too much uncited
1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat, the world's first commercially successful paddle steamer, went into service on the Hudson River in New York.	page numbers needed
1884 – The German colony of Kamerun was established, in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon and surrounding areas.	refimprove
1862 – A council of Dakota decided to attack settlements throughout the Minnesota River valley in an effort to drive whites out of the area, sparking the Dakota War.	refimprove section
1866 - The Grand Duchy of Baden announced its withdrawal from the German Confederation and signed a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia.	single source
1915 – American Jew Leo Frank was lynched by a mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl.	"Update needed" orange banner
1916 – World War I: Romania signed a secret treaty with the Entente Powers, agreeing to enter the war in return for promised territory in Austria-Hungary.	Orange "more sources needed" banner
1947 – A commission led by Cyril Radcliffe established the Radcliffe Line, the border between India and Pakistan after the Partition of India.	cleanup required
1959 – A magnitude 7.3 ML earthquake occurred in southwestern Montana, U.S., causing a huge landslide that caused over 28 fatalities and created Quake Lake.	page numbers needed
1962 – East German border guards shot and killed Peter Fechter as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin.	refimprove
1969 – Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi coast of the United States, killing 259 people and causing $1.42 billion in damage.	Too much uncited
1977 – The Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.	refimprove
1980 – Two-month-old Australian Azaria Chamberlain was taken from her family's campsite at Uluru by a dingo, for which her mother was wrongly convicted of murder.	lots of CN tags in one section
1991 – A spree killer went on a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Strathfield, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, killing seven people before being committing suicide.	lots of CN tags in one section
1998 – U.S. president Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.	appears on January 26
1999 – An earthquake registering 7.6 Mw northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 people and leaving more than 250,000 homeless.	needs maintenance
2009 – A hydroelectric turbine at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Russia catastrophically failed, flooding the turbine hall, killing 75 people and causing widespread power outages.	Too much uncited
Nitta Yoshisada |d|1338	date not cited
Davy Crockett |b|1786	in popular culture

Eligible

• 1668 – An earthquake struck the North Anatolia region, killing over 8,000 people.
• 1676 – Scanian War: Swedish forces defeated Danish troops at the Battle of Halmstad.
• 1876 – The premiere of Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner (pictured) closed the first Bayreuth Festival.
• 1914 – World War I: Ignoring orders to retreat, Hermann von François led a successful counterattack defending East Prussia at the Battle of Stallupönen and scored the first German victory in the Eastern Front.
• 1915 – A category 4 hurricane made landfall in Galveston, Texas, leaving at least 275 people dead and causing Template:Nowrap in damage.
• 1943 – Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in a highly secret military conference (pictured) held in Quebec City.
• 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force began a strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany's V-weapon programme by attacking the Peenemünde Army Research Center.
• 1945 – The independence of Indonesia was proclaimed by Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta , igniting a revolution against the Dutch Empire.
• 1945 – Animal Farm, George Orwell's satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism, was first published.
• 1959 – American musician Miles Davis released Kind of Blue, which became one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed jazz recordings of all time.

• Born/died: | Li Shouzhen |d|949| Katharina von Zimmern |d|1547| Matthew Boulton |d|1809| Gene Stratton-Porter|b|1863| Leslie Groves|b|1896| Maureen O'Hara |b|1920| Margaret Hamilton|b|1936| Robert De Niro|b|1943| Korrie Layun Rampan |b|1953| Sean Penn |b|1960| Dawn Mabalon|b|1972| Thierry Henry |b|1977| Tarja Turunen|b|1977| Babacar Diop|b|1982| Gerri Major |d|1984| Austin Butler |b|1991| Terence Stamp |d|2025| Joe Caroff |d|2025|

Notes

• Bloody Gulch massacre appears on August 12, so Hill 303 should not appear in the same year
• Hurricane Charley appears on August 13 and Hurricane Andrew is on August 24, so Hurricane Camille should not appear in the same year
• Atlantic Charter appears on August 14, so Quebec Conference should not appear in the same year
• Eustathios Daphnomeles appears on August 15, so Battle of the Gates of Trajan should not appear in the same year

August 17: Independence Day in Indonesia (1945) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: The Bulgarians defeated Byzantine forces at the battle of the Gates of Trajan near present-day Ihtiman, with Emperor Basil II barely escaping.
• 1560 – The Scottish Reformation Parliament approved a Protestant confession of faith, initiating the Scottish Reformation and disestablishing Catholicism as the national religion.
• 1907 – Pike Place Market (pictured), one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a popular tourist attraction, opened in Seattle, Washington.
• 1950 – Korean War: Forty-two American prisoners of war were massacred by the Korean People's Army on a hill above Waegwan, South Korea.
• 2008 – Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, setting the record for the most gold medals won by an athlete at a single games.