WHAT HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY - AUGUST 17

• 1969 Woodstock Music Festival concludes

• American Revolution

• 1785 Connecticut Patriot Jonathan Trumbull dies

• Automotive

• 1915 Charles Kettering receives patent for electric self-starter

• Civil War

• 1862 Dakota uprising begins in Minnesota

• Cold War

• 1962 East Germans kill man trying to cross Berlin Wall

• Crime

• 1984 A serial rapist strikes in England

• Disaster

• 1999 Earthquake exposes weak infrastructure

• General Interest

• 1943 Patton wins race to Messina
• 1978 Balloon crosses the Atlantic
• 1987 Hitler’s last living henchman dies
• 1999 Deadly earthquake strikes Turkey

• Hollywood

• 1943 Robert De Niro born

• Literary

• 1993 Random House gives Colin Powell largest autobiography advance to date

• Music

• 1974 “The Night Chicago Died” by Paper Lace tops the U.S. pop charts

• Old West

• 1877 Billy the Kid kills his first man

• Presidential

• 1998 Clinton testifies before grand jury

• Sports

• 1933 Lou Gehrig goes the distance

• Vietnam War

• 1968 117,000 combat missions flown over North Vietnam in three years
• 1973 U.S. troops to withdraw from Thailand

• World War I

• 1914 Russian troops invade East Prussia

• World War II

• 1942 Carlson’s Raiders land on Makin Island