What Happened in August 2017

Events 1 - 100 of 102

• Aug 1 Bomb blast at Jawadia Shia mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills about 30
• Aug 1 Christopher A. Wray confirmed at F.B.I. Director by US Senate
• Aug 1 Two Venezuelan opposition leaders, Leopoldo López and Antonio Ledezma re-arrested, revoking their house arrest

• Aug 2 First footage of white giraffes posted by Hirola Conservation Program in north eastern Kenya
• Aug 2 First successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature"

• Aug 2 More than a billion people around the world need glasses and 36 million are blind, according to new study published in "The Lancet"
• Aug 2 New crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash is created via a hard-fork of Bitcoin's blockchain technology and brand

• Aug 3 Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 2 1/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide
• Aug 3 Rapper Kidd Creole arrested and charged for stabbing to death a homeless man in New York City
• Aug 4 Aldi supermarket withdraws all eggs from sale after chemical fipronil found in eggs from The Netherlands

• Aug 5 Super Rugby Final, Ellis Park: Canterbury Crusaders (NZ) travel to Johannesburg and beat Lions, 25-17 for their 8th SR title
• Aug 5 UN Security Council votes to impose sanctions on North Korea for its continued missile program
• Aug 6 British Open Women's Golf, Kingbarns GC: South Korean In-Kyung Kim wins by 2 strokes from Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England
• Aug 6 UEFA Women's Euro Final: Dutch forward Vivianne Miedema scores 2 as the Netherlands beat Denmark 4-2 in Enschede, the Netherlands
• Aug 7 England breaks 19-year drought in home Test cricket series against South Africa; beat Proteas by 177 in 4th Test at Old Trafford; Moeen Ali 75no and 5/69

• Aug 8 The Walt Disney Company announces plans to create its own streaming service, cancelling ties with Netflix

• Aug 9 Nepal's parliament bans menstruation huts (comes into effect August 2018)
• Aug 9 North Korea says it plans to fire rockets on US territory Guam in continuing escalation of tension between it and the US
• Aug 10 100 year-old fruit cake by Huntley & Palmers deemed "almost eatable" after being discovered in hut used by Captain Scott's expedition in Antarctica
• Aug 10 Scientists study identifying nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) deficiency major cause of miscarriages and multiple birth defects published in "New England Journal of Medicine"

• Aug 10 US President Donald Trump declares opioid addiction a national emergency
• Aug 11 Chinese crime writer Liu Yongbiao after announcing novel called "Beautiful Writer who Killed", arrested for murders of four people nearly 22 years ago
• Aug 11 Fipronil contaminated eggs now affecting fifteen EU countries, Hong Kong and Switzerland according to European Commission
• Aug 12 "Unite the Right" march in Charlottesville, Virginia turns violent when car rams protesters killing 1, injuring 19
• Aug 12 US President Donald Trump at a press conference at Trump Tower says “there is blame on both sides” in reference to violence in Charlottesville, provoking widespread condemnation
• Aug 12 Usain Bolt injures himself in his very last race, the men's 4x100m relay, Jamaica misses gold at world championships

• Aug 13 Gunmen kill at least 18 at a cafe in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Islamic extremists blamed
• Aug 13 More than 60 children reported to have died at Gorakhpur Hospital, India, prompting an investigation

• Aug 14 Cholera has now infected more than 500,000 people in Yemen and killed over 2,000 according to the World Health Organization
• Aug 14 Mudslide and flooding in Freetown, Sierra Leone kills over 500 with 600 missing
• Aug 14 Parliamentary citizenship scandal deepens in Australia after Barnaby Joyce, Deputy PM revealed to be a New Zealand citizen
• Aug 14 US President Donald Trump condemns racist violence at the White House after criticism of his earlier response to Charlottesville violence

• Aug 15 Falling tree kills 13, injures 49 at a religious festival in Funchal, on Portuguese island of Madeira
• Aug 15 Scientists genetic study of the apple reveal its origin was in Kazakhstan, published in "Nature Communications"
• Aug 16 Baltimore city council removes confederate statues under cover of darkness in response to Charlottesville violence

• Aug 16 Last batch of Farc rebel weapons removed by the UN in Colombia
• Aug 16 Lebanon parliament abolishes article 522, which exempted rapists from prosecution if they married their victim
• Aug 16 Over 100 Maasai houses destroyed in Tanzania by game park authorities as part of a border dispute near Serengeti National Park

• Aug 16 Three suicide bombers kill 27 people outside a refugee camp near Maiduguri in Borno state, Nigeria, Boko Haram suspected
• Aug 17 Anti-immigrant One Nation party leader Pauline Hansen is widely criticized for wearing a burqa into the Australian parliament
• Aug 17 Collision of two neutron stars witnessed for the first time first picked up by US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo)
• Aug 17 On This Day helps launch Borneo Dictionary, an online not for profit dictionary of indigenous Borneo languages with translations in English and Bahasa Malaysia
• Aug 17 Terror attack on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain as van rams into crowds killing 16, injuring 120
• Aug 17 Three Hong Kong activists, Jason Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow jailed for unlawful assembly

• Aug 18 White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US President Donald Trump
• Aug 20 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Des Moines G & CC: US retains Cup 16½- 11½; down by 5, Europe can only halve the singles 6-6
• Aug 21 Chile's constitutional court approves bill to ease country's total abortion ban
• Aug 21 Destroyer USS John S McCain collides with an oil tanker near Singapore leaving 10 missing and 5 injured
• Aug 21 Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417m to woman who developed ovarian cancer after using their talc-based products
• Aug 21 London's parliament clock Big Ben chimes for the last time before a four-year restoration process for its tower starts
• Aug 21 Total solar eclipse visible from North America
• Aug 22 India's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq)
• Aug 22 Missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence
• Aug 23 Air strike on hotel in Yemen capital Sanaa by Saudi-led coalition leaves at least 30 dead
• Aug 23 India toll from swine flu rises above 1000 for the year, 22,186 cases reported
• Aug 23 Nearly 60 million people in the Indus Valley, Pakistan at risk from arsenic in research published in "Science Advances"
• Aug 23 US Navy fires Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin as commander of the Seventh Fleet following series of collisions in Asian waters
• Aug 23 World's driest place, the Atacama desert in Chile blooms after unexpected rainfall
• Aug 24 Largest-ever lottery jackpot win in the US - $758.7m won by Mavis Wanczyk of Massachusetts in US Powerball Jackpot
• Aug 25 Category 4 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas northeast of Corpus Christi with 130 m.p.h. winds
• Aug 25 Indian spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is convicted of raping two of his followers in Panchkula
• Aug 25 President Donald Trump grants presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling
• Aug 25 Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong jailed for 5 years for corruption in South Korea
• Aug 26 Half a million people take part in a peace march in Barcelona, following terrorist attacks
• Aug 26 Hurricane Harvey downgraded to a tropical storm, National Hurricane Center warns of “multiday rainfall disaster”

• Aug 26 Violent clashes after conviction of spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh kill 31 in Panchkula, 120 admitted to hospital
• Aug 26 Women's Rugby World Cup: New Zealand Black Ferns defeat England 41-32 in the final in Belfast
• Aug 27 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins by 2 from Mirim Lee

• Aug 28 English actor Ed Skrein pulls out of role in movie “Hellboy” after whitewashing criticism
• Aug 28 Investigation into German nurse Niels Högel, a serving life sentence for killing two patients, concludes he probably killed 86 more
• Aug 28 Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail
• Aug 28 Matt Vogel makes his debut as the voice of Kermit the Frog in "Muppet Thought of the Week" video
• Aug 28 North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, the country's J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover
• Aug 29 Hurricane Harvey sets rainfall record (51.88 inches in Cedar Bayou) from a tropical cyclone in continental US, according to US National Weather Service
• Aug 29 Monsoon rains in Mumbai cause chaos closing schools and airports
• Aug 29 US President Donald Trump visits flood affected Texas
• Aug 30 Authorities say floods across Bangladesh, Nepal and India have killed more 1200 people and damaged 697,000 houses

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• Aug 1 Goldy McJohn, [John Goadsby] Canadian rock organist (Steppenwolf - "Born To Be Wild"; "Magic Carpet Ride"), dies at 72
• Aug 2 Ara Parseghian, American College Football HOF coach (Northwestern; NCAA C'ship 1966, 73 Notre Dame), dies at 94
• Aug 3 Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer (World C'ships: 50cc 1969, 70, 72, 75, 76, 77; 125cc 1971, 72, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84; 90 Grand Prix victories), dies in a road accident at 70
• Aug 3 Robert Hardy, British actor (Harry Potter, All Creatures Great and Small), dies at 91
• Aug 3 Theodore "Ted" Stanley, American anesthesiologist and medical entrepreneur (created the fentanyl lollipop), dies at 77
• Aug 3 Ty Hardin [Orison Hungerford Jr.], American actor (Riptide, Bronco), dies at 87
• Aug 5 Doug Insole, English cricketer (England batsman of the 50's, nine Tests), dies at 91
• Aug 5 Mark White, American politician, lawyer, and 43rd Governor of Texas (1983-7), dies at 77

• Aug 6 Darren Daulton, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1992, 93, 95; World Series 1997; Silver Slugger Award 1992; Philadelphia Phillies), dies of brain cancer at 55
• Aug 7 David Maslanka, American composer (Angel Of Mercy; Sea Dreams), and educator, dies of colon cancer at 73
• Aug 7 Janet Seidel, Australian jazz pianist, vocalist, arranger, and educator, dies of ovarian cancer at 62
• Aug 8 Barbara Cook, American stage singer and actress (The Music Man), dies at 89

• Aug 9 Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter, dies at 86
• Aug 9 Al McCandless, American Republican politician (Rep-R-CA 1983-95), dies at 90
• Aug 9 Marián Varga, Slovak musician (Prúdy), dies at 70
• Aug 10 Kim Wall, Swedish journalist killed investigating Danish inventor Peter Madsen, dies at 30 [or 11th Aug]
• Aug 10 Xavier Benguerel, Catalan composer (Llibre Vermell; Jo, Dalí), dies at 86
• Aug 11 Kent Lee, American vice-admiral (WW II-Marianas, Korea and Vietnam), dies at 94
• Aug 14 Frank Broyles, American collegiate athlete, and administrator (University of Arkansas Athletic Director, 1974-2007), dies at 92
• Aug 15 Vernon "Vern" Ehlers, American politician (Michigan House of Representatives), dies of complications from Alzheimers disease at 83
• Aug 16 David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British aristocrat, art dealer, and peer, dies at 89
• Aug 18 Brian Aldiss, British sci-fi author (Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, Helliconia trilogy), dies at 92
• Aug 18 Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer and television presenter (The Generation Game), dies at 89
• Aug 18 Zoe Laskari, Greek actress, dies at 72
• Aug 19 Bea Wain, American pop singer ("Deep Purple" (the song, not the group); "Heart and Soul"), and radio host, dies at 100
• Aug 19 Charles R. Bentley, American pioneer or polar science, dies from complications of Parkinson’s disease at 87
• Aug 19 Dick Gregory, American comedian, civil rights activist and dietician (Bahamian Diet), dies of heart failure at 84

• Aug 20 Fredell Lack, American concert violinist, and teacher (University of Houston, 1959-2009), dies at 95

• Aug 20 Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer, dies at 89
• Aug 21 Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director (Ki Je Kori, Chandranath), dies at 75
• Aug 21 Thomas Meehan, American writer (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray), dies at 88
• Aug 22 John Abercrombie, American jazz guitarist, dies of heart failure at 72
• Aug 22 Rafael "Felo" Ramírez, Cuban-American Spanish language sports announcer (Miami Marlins), dies at 94
• Aug 23 Susan Vreeland, American author (The Passion of Artemisia), dies at 71
• Aug 23 [Jacob] "Jack" Rosenthal, American journalist and government official, dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
• Aug 24 Charlie Robertson, American politician (mayor of York, Pennsylvania 1994-2002), dies of cancer at 83
• Aug 24 Jay Thomas [Jon Thomas Terrell], American actor and comedian (Cheers, Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 69
• Aug 25 Enzo Dara, Italian operatic basso buffo (The Barber of Seville - "Don Bartolo"), and author, dies at 78
• Aug 28 Bobby Boyd, American NFL cornerback (5 × All-Pro 1964–1968; NFL interceptions leader 1965; Baltimore Colts), dies of bladder cancer at 79
• Aug 28 Willie Duggan, Irish rugby union no. 8 (41 Tests Ireland, 4 British & Irish Lions; Blackrock College RFC, Sunday's Well RFC), dies from an aneurysm at 67
• Aug 29 Dmitri Kogan, Russian concert violinist (Five Great Violins), dies of cancer at 38
• Aug 29 Janine Charrat, French ballerina and choreographer, dies at 93
• Aug 29 Larry Elgart, American big band jazz alto saxophonist, and bandleader ("Bandstand Boogie"; "Hooked On Swing"), dies at 95
• Aug 31 Ann Jellicoe, British theater director and playwright (Knack), dies at 90
• Aug 31 Edward du Cann, British politician and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1965-67), dies at 93
• Aug 31 Richard Anderson, American actor (Oscar Goldman- The 6 Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman television series), dies at 91