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HomePage 13: Historical Events In 2017
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Aug 14 Parliamentary citizenship scandal deepens in Australia after Barnaby Joyce, Deputy PM revealed to be a New Zealand citizen. 
Aug 14 US President Donald Trump condemns racist violence at the White House after criticism of his earlier response to Charlottesville violence
Aug 15 Barack Obama 's tweet "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." in response to Charlottesville violence is recorded as becoming most-liked tweet ever
Aug 15 Daniel Craig confirms he will play James Bond one more time
Aug 15 Falling tree results in the deaths of 13, injures 49 at a religious festival in Funchal, on Portuguese island of Madeira.
Aug 15 Scientists genetic study of the apple reveal its origin was in Kazakhstan, published in "Nature Communications".
Aug 16 Baltimore city council removes confederate statues under cover of darkness in response to Charlottesville violence
Aug 16 Emma Stone is the year's highest-paid actress with $26 million, according to Forbes.
Aug 16 Last batch of Farc rebel weapons removed by the UN in Colombia.
Aug 16 Lebanon parliament abolishes article 522, which exempted rapists from prosecution if they married their victim
Aug 16 Over 100 Maasai houses destroyed in Tanzania by game park authorities as part of a border dispute near Serengeti National Park
Aug 16 Philippine police kill 32 in raids near Manilia, most deadly night in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
Aug 16 Three suicide bombers kill 27 people outside a refugee camp near Maiduguri in Borno state, Nigeria, Boko Haram suspected
Aug 17 Anti-immigrant One Nation party leader Pauline Hansen is widely criticized for wearing a burqa into the Australian parliament.
Aug 17 Collision of two neutron stars witnessed for the inaugural time inaugural picked up by US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo)
Aug 17 Terror attack on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain as van rams into crowds killing 16, injuring 120.
Aug 17 The inaugural 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
Aug 17 Three Hong Kong activists, Jason Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow jailed for unlawful assembly.
Aug 18 White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US President Donald Trump.
Aug 21 A total solar eclipse (nicknamed "The Great American Eclipse") is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.
Aug 21 Chile's constitutional court approves bill to ease country's total abortion ban.
Aug 21 Destroyer USS John S McCain collides with an oil tanker near Singapore leaving 10 missing and 5 injured.
Aug 21 Johnson and Johnson ordered to pay $417m to woman who developed ovarian cancer after using their talc-based products
Aug 21 London's parliament clock Big Ben chimes for the last time before a four-year restoration process for its tower starts.
Aug 21 Next total solar eclipse visible from North America.
Aug 21 The next total solar eclipse visible from Canada will happen on this day.
Aug 21 Total solar eclipse visible from North America.
Aug 22 India's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq)
Aug 22 Missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence.
Aug 23 Air strike on hotel in Yemen capital Sanaa by Saudi-led coalition leaves at least 30 dead.
Aug 23 India toll from swine flu rises above 1000 for the year, 22186 cases reported.
Aug 23 Nearly 60 million people in the Indus Valley, Pakistan at risk from arsenic in research published in "Science Advances"
Aug 23 US Navy fires Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin as commander of the Seventh Fleet following series of collisions in Asian waters.
Aug 23 World's driest place, the Atacama desert in Chile blooms after unexpected rainfall
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