This Day In History

August 17th

1943  US Lieutenant General George S. Patton arrived in Messina, Sicily, completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
1969  The Woodstock Music festival came to a close after 3 days in Bethel, New York.  It was estimated 400,000 people attended and three deaths and two births occured.
1969  Hurricane Camille crashes into the upper Gulf Coast at 200+MPH killing 256 people in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, and injuring thousands more
1987  The last of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, Rudolf Hess, dieD in Spandau Prison in Berlin by suicide.
1988  Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and US Ambassador to Pakistan were killed when their plane exploded just after takeoff for unknown reasons.
1999  A devastating earthquake registering 7.3 on the Richter Scale rips apart Istanbul, Turkey, killing over 2,000 and injuring over 10,000

1786  Frontiersman & Soldier Davy Crockett
1882  Movie Pioneer Samuel Goldwyn (Goldfish)
1893  Actress Mae West
1943  Actor/Director Robert DeNiro
1958  Singer Belinda Carlisle
1960  Actor Sean Penn

Top Hits Courtesy of...

1962

• Breaking Up is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka

• The Loco-Motion - Little Eva

• You'll Lose a Good Thing - Barbara Lynn

• Ahab, the Arab - Ray Stevens

1970

• (They Long to be) Close to You - Carpenters

• In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry

• War - Edwin Starr

• Don't Keep Me Hangin' On - Sonny James

1978

• Three Times a Lady - Commodores

• Grease - Frankie Valli

• Copacabana (At the Copa) - Barry Manilow

• You Don't Love Me Anymore - Eddie Rabbitt

1986

• Papa Don't Preach - Madonna

• Higher Love - Steve Winwood

• Take My Breath Away - Berlin

• You're the Last Thing I Needed Tonight - John Schneider

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