Hisdates•ComPage 8: Historical Events In August - 17
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
1990 On August - 17 "The Exorcist 3" premiers 
1990 Pearl Bailey broadway actress/singer, dies at 72 from a heart attack on this day in history.
1990 On this day in history phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1990 On this day in history pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72
1991 Wade Frankum runs amok with automatic rifle and knife at Strathfield in Sydney, killing seven people and himself on this day in history.
1991 On this day in history don Dubbins, actor (Enchanted Island, DI), dies at 63
1992 On August - 17 andre de Villiers, South African, murdered
1993 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1998 U.S. President Bill Clinton admits in a televised address to having had inappropriate relations with ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky on this day in history.
1999 Izmit earthquake in Turkey killing 17,127 people on August - 17.
2005 On August - 17 bangladesh is hit by bomb explosions. [2]
2005 On this day in history sellapan Ramanathan gains victory in the Singapore Presidential elections, 205.
2005 The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts on August - 17.
2007 On August - 17 vladimir Putin issues a statement, revealing that Russia is to resume the flight exercises of its Strategic bombers in remote areas. The flights were suspended in 1991 after the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
2012 On August - 17 three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years
2013 On this day in history 15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo
2017 On this day in history terror attack on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain as van rams into crowds killing 16, injuring 120
2017 Three Hong Kong activists, Jason Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow jailed for unlawful assembly on August - 17.
2017 Anti-immigrant One Nation party leader Pauline Hansen is widely criticized for wearing a burqa into the Australian parliament on August - 17.
2017 Collision of two neutron stars witnessed for the first time first picked up by US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo) on this day in history.
2017 On this day in history the first observation of a collision of two neutron stars (GW170817) is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected. Data from the event provided confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold.
2024 Indonesia's 79th Independence Day celebration is held in Nusantara. The celebration is supposed to inaugurate Nusantara as the new capital of Indonesia, but this does not occur due to delays on this day in history.
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