August 17 1544 English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France.
August 17 1585 Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by Duke of Parma.
August 17 1648 Battle at Preston, Lancashire.
August 17 1743 Treaty of Åbo signed in Turku by Sweden and Russian Empire.
August 17 1796 British beat Batavian navy in Saldanha Bay.
August 17 1862 Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky.
August 17 1863 Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter.
August 17 1892 Russian and French generals, Obruchev and Boisdeffre sign Double Alliance.
August 17 1914 French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins.
August 17 1915 German troops over run Kovno, Lithuania.
August 17 1916 Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia.
August 17 1917 Italy declares war on Turkey.
August 17 1918 British troops attack Baku, Azerbaijan.
August 17 1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000.
August 17 1918 Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus.
August 17 1933 Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket.
August 17 1940 Adolf Hitler orders a total blockade of Great Britain.
August 17 1941 German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan.
August 17 1942 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on USS Hornet.
August 17 1942 US 8th Air Force bombers stage first independent raid on Europe, attack Rouen, France.
August 17 1943 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde
August 17 1943 Gen Patton enters Messina.
August 17 1943 US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during attack on Schweinfurt and Regensburg.
August 17 1944 4th Canadian Armoured division occupiers Trun, Normandy.
August 17 1944 Canadian 2nd division conquers Falaise, Normandy.
August 17 1944 German field marshal Walter Model replaces Günther von Kluge in Normandy.
August 17 1944 Soviet troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border.
August 17 1944 US 12 Army Corps occupies Orleans.
August 17 1944 US 320th regiment infantry occupies Châteaudun.
August 17 1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
August 17 1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR.
August 17 1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
August 17 1995 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor.
August 17 2013 15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo.
August 17 2013 18 people are killed in conflict between Boko Harem and Nigerian military.
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