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| August 17th |
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| About August 17th is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 136 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. Births 1913 - W. Mark Felt, FBI Agent, Watergate whistleblower ("Deep Throat") 1919 - Georgia Gibbs, singer (Your Hit Parade) 1929 - Francis Gary Powers, pilot, shot down in Russia on CIA mission 1949 - Norm Coleman, former U.S. Senator (Minnesota) 1959 - David Koresh, Branch Davidian cult leader 1968 - Andrew Koenig, actor, activist (Growing Pains) 1972 - Ben Affleck, actor, director, screenwriter (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) Deaths 1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect 2007 - Carolyn Goodman, civil rights activist Events 1943 - The Allied Powers conquer Sicily during World War II. |
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