Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on August 17. Check what happened ...

Migos rapper Offset releasing his third solo album “Kiari” and Samara Weaving playing a reformed getaway driver in the heist ...

Key moments from Aug. 17-23 include the debut of Fulton’s steamboat, women’s suffrage ratification, Woodstock’s finale, the ...

1918: British troops attack Baku, Azerbaijan. On the same day, Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. (With a calendar change in 1923 this became Aug 30 but at the time it was ...