986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan – The Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron defeat the Byzantine forces at the Gates of Trajan, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping.
1186 – Georgenberg Pact: Duke Ottokar IV of Styria and Duke Leopold V of Austria sign a heritage agreement in which Ottokar gives his duchy to Leopold and to his son Frederick under the stipulation that Austria and Styria would henceforth remain undivided.
1386 – Karl Topia, the ruler of Princedom of Albania forges an alliance with the Republic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the Ottomans in return.
1424 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil – An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under the Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas.
1498 – Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate. On the same day, the French King Louis XII names him Duke of Valentinois.
1549 – Battle of Sampford Courtenay – The Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in England.
1560 – The Roman Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in Scotland.
1585 – Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.
1585 – A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Ralegh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
1597 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.
1611 – Gaspar de Borja y Velasco is made a cardinal by Pope Paul V.
1668 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter magnitude scale causes 8,000 deaths in Anatolia, Ottoman Empire.
1717 – Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire.
1723 – Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraş and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraş, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI.
1740 – Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
1771 – Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis in Scotland.
1784 – Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.
1798 – The Vietnamese Roman Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Lady of La Vang.
1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York, for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1862 – American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
1862 – American Civil War: Major General J.E.B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville – Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
1866 – The Grand Duchy of Baden announces her withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia.
1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
1896 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the UK's first pedestrian motoring fatality.
1903 – The Pulitzer Prizes begin in America when Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia.
1907 – Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, Washington, opened.
1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.
1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1941 – World War II: Soviet Army left Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines raid a Japanese seaplane base on the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
1942: During World War II, U.S. 8th Air Force bombers attacked German forces in Rouen, France.
1943 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
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.
1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
1945 – George Orwell's Animal Farm was published.
1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1950 – Hill 303 massacre: American POWs are shot to death by the North Korean Army.
1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
1960 – Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.
1961: The United States and 19 Latin American countries signed the Charter of Punta del Este in Uruguay, creating the Alliance for Progress aimed at promoting economic growth and social justice.
1962 – East German border guards kill Peter Fechter, 18, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
1969: Hurricane Camille slammed into the Mississippi coast as a Category 5 storm that was blamed for 256 U.S. deaths and three in Cuba.
1943 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
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.
1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
1945 – George Orwell's Animal Farm was published.
1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1950 – Hill 303 massacre: American POWs are shot to death by the North Korean Army.
1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
1960 – Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.
1961: The United States and 19 Latin American countries signed the Charter of Punta del Este in Uruguay, creating the Alliance for Progress aimed at promoting economic growth and social justice.
1962 – East German border guards kill Peter Fechter, 18, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
1969: Hurricane Camille slammed into the Mississippi coast as a Category 5 storm that was blamed for 256 U.S. deaths and three in Cuba.
1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, at Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.
1982 – The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
1988 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1988 – Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for President.
1991 – Strathfield Massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
1999 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2004 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh.
2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.
2009 – An accident at the Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
1991 – Strathfield Massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
1999 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2004 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh.
2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.
2009 – An accident at the Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Octave of St. Lawrence. Double.
Commemoration of the Octave of the Assumption.
Commemoration of the Octave of the Assumption.
Contemporary Western
Clare of the Cross
Hyacinth of Poland
Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga
Jeanne Delanoue
Mammes of Caesarea
Hyacinth of Poland
Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga
Jeanne Delanoue
Mammes of Caesarea
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Johann Gerhard (Lutheran)
Samuel Johnson, Timothy Cutler (Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
August 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Afterfeast of the DormitionHieromartyr Myron of Cyzicus, Priest (250)
Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus (Coronatus),
with others, of Caesarea in Bithynia (c. 250)
Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius
and Stratonicus the executioners, at Ptolemais in Syria (273)
Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian, and Cyprian, of Nicomedia (303)
Venerable Monk-martyr Macarius of Mount St. Auxentius (768)
Venerable Elias the Younger of Calabria, (Elias of Enna) (903)
Venerable Aiglon, a hermit who lived ascetically and reposed in peace.
Saint Eusebius, a Greek by birth, reposed in exile in Sicily (310)
Saint Theodulus of Grammont (Theodore, Yoder), an early Bishop of Valais,
who was much revered in Switzerland and Savoy (4th century)
Hieromartyrs Liberatus, Boniface, Servus, Rusticus, Rogatus,
Septimus, and Maximus, under the Arian King Hunneric (483)
Saint Anastasius of Terni, Bishop of Terni in Italy (c. 553)
Saint James the Deacon, companion of St Paulinus of York
in his mission to Northumbria (after 671)
Saint Drithelm, monk at Melrose Abbey in Scotland, Confessor, great ascetic (c. 700)
Saint Carloman, eldest son of Charles Martel, became King of Austrasia (754)
Saint Amor (Amator, Amour), companion of St Pirmin in preaching Christ in Germany,
founder of the monastery of Amorbach in Franconia (8th century)
Martyr Patroclus of Troyes, under Aurelian (270-275)
Hieromartyr Jeroen (Hiero, Iero), hieromonk, at Noordwijk, Netherlands (857)
Saint Benedicta and Cecilia, two daughters of the King of Lorraine, became nuns and successively Abbesses of Susteren Abbey, in the Rhineland, Germany (10th century)
Venerable Alypius the Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1114)
Saint Tbeli Abuserisdze of Khikhuni, Adjara (13th century)
Venerable Leucius, Abbot of Volokolamsk (1492)
Blessed Theodoretus, Enlightener of the Laps in Solovki (1571)
Saint Philip of Mt. Yankov Monastery, left bank of Sukhona River in Vologda, monk (1662)
New Monk-martyr Agapius, at Thermes, near Thessalonica (1752)
Venerable Monk-martyr Demetrius of Samarina (Pindos), at Ioannina (1808)
Saint Pimen, Archimandrite, of Ugreshi Monastery (1880)
New Hieromartyr Alexis Velikoselsky, Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Demetrius Ostroumov, Priest (1937)
Repose of Schemanun Ardaliona of Ust-Medveditsky Convent (1864)
Repose of Schemamonk Onuphrius of Valaam Monastery (1912)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia", Constantinople
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Svensk" (1288)
Icon of Panagia of Goumenissa.
Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus (Coronatus),
with others, of Caesarea in Bithynia (c. 250)
Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius
and Stratonicus the executioners, at Ptolemais in Syria (273)
Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian, and Cyprian, of Nicomedia (303)
Venerable Monk-martyr Macarius of Mount St. Auxentius (768)
Venerable Elias the Younger of Calabria, (Elias of Enna) (903)
Venerable Aiglon, a hermit who lived ascetically and reposed in peace.
Saint Eusebius, a Greek by birth, reposed in exile in Sicily (310)
Saint Theodulus of Grammont (Theodore, Yoder), an early Bishop of Valais,
who was much revered in Switzerland and Savoy (4th century)
Hieromartyrs Liberatus, Boniface, Servus, Rusticus, Rogatus,
Septimus, and Maximus, under the Arian King Hunneric (483)
Saint Anastasius of Terni, Bishop of Terni in Italy (c. 553)
Saint James the Deacon, companion of St Paulinus of York
in his mission to Northumbria (after 671)
Saint Drithelm, monk at Melrose Abbey in Scotland, Confessor, great ascetic (c. 700)
Saint Carloman, eldest son of Charles Martel, became King of Austrasia (754)
Saint Amor (Amator, Amour), companion of St Pirmin in preaching Christ in Germany,
founder of the monastery of Amorbach in Franconia (8th century)
Martyr Patroclus of Troyes, under Aurelian (270-275)
Hieromartyr Jeroen (Hiero, Iero), hieromonk, at Noordwijk, Netherlands (857)
Saint Benedicta and Cecilia, two daughters of the King of Lorraine, became nuns and successively Abbesses of Susteren Abbey, in the Rhineland, Germany (10th century)
Venerable Alypius the Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1114)
Saint Tbeli Abuserisdze of Khikhuni, Adjara (13th century)
Venerable Leucius, Abbot of Volokolamsk (1492)
Blessed Theodoretus, Enlightener of the Laps in Solovki (1571)
Saint Philip of Mt. Yankov Monastery, left bank of Sukhona River in Vologda, monk (1662)
New Monk-martyr Agapius, at Thermes, near Thessalonica (1752)
Venerable Monk-martyr Demetrius of Samarina (Pindos), at Ioannina (1808)
Saint Pimen, Archimandrite, of Ugreshi Monastery (1880)
New Hieromartyr Alexis Velikoselsky, Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Demetrius Ostroumov, Priest (1937)
Repose of Schemanun Ardaliona of Ust-Medveditsky Convent (1864)
Repose of Schemamonk Onuphrius of Valaam Monastery (1912)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia", Constantinople
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Svensk" (1288)
Icon of Panagia of Goumenissa.
Coptic Orthodox
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