August 17
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[edit] Events
- 1915 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia.
- 1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
- 1960 - Gabon gains independence from France.
- 1969 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
[edit] Births
- 1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
- 1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black activist (d. 1940)
- 1896 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
- 1913 - W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant
- 1929 - Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
- 1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
[edit] Deaths
- 1987 - Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy leader (b. 1894)
