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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_17" title="August 17">August 17</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1676" title="1676">1676</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanian_War" title="Scanian War">Scanian War</a>: Swedish forces defeated Danish troops at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halmstad" title="Battle of Halmstad">Battle of Halmstad</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915" title="1915">1915</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_Galveston_hurricane" title="1915 Galveston hurricane">A category 4 hurricane</a></b> made landfall in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston,_Texas" title="Galveston, Texas">Galveston, Texas</a>, leaving at least 275 people dead and causing <span class="nowrap">$50 million</span> in damage.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> met in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Quebec_Conference" title="First Quebec Conference">a highly secret military conference</a></b> held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm" title="Animal Farm">Animal Farm</a></b></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>'s satirical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegory</a> of Soviet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a>, was first published.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959" title="1959">1959</a> – American musician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a> released <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue" title="Kind of Blue">Kind of Blue</a></b></i>, which became one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> recordings of all time.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Shouzhen" title="Li Shouzhen">Li Shouzhen</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 949); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_von_Zimmern" title="Katharina von Zimmern">Katharina von Zimmern</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1547); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korrie_Layun_Rampan" title="Korrie Layun Rampan">Korrie Layun Rampan</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1953); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraya_Bevis" title="Saraya Bevis">Saraya Bevis</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1992)</p>
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