I’m happy to start a new blog post series called On This Day, titled after onthisday.com, just one of my many favorite websites on the internet. The site is a huge collection of information to explore if you are into history.

Today in history on August 17th:

1. 1590 Governor of Roanoke Island colony John White returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he left there three years earlier [or August 18, 1591].
2. 1876 Today in Music Richard Wagner’s opera “Götterdämmerung” premieres in Bayreuth.
3. 1903 Joseph Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University and begins the Pulitzer Prizes in the United States.
4. 1933 Today in Sport MLB player Lou Gehrig plays his record 1,308th consecutive game.
5. 1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
6. 1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands.
7. 1947 The Radcliffe Line is revealed, setting the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan.
8. 1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an “improper physical relationship” with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he “misled people” about the relationship.
9. 1979 “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, and John Cleese, and funded by George Harrison’s HandMade Films, premieres in US theaters.
10. SOURCE (for this entire list) – https://www.onthisday.com
11. RELEVANT LINKS…
12. 1876 – https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1876
13. 1950 – https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1590
14. 1903 – https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1903
15. 1933 – https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1933
16. 1945 – https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1945
17. 1947 – https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1947
18. 1979 – https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1979
19. 1998 – https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1998
20. Bill Clinton – https://www.onthisday.com/people/bill-clinton
21. George Harrison – https://www.onthisday.com/people/george-harrison
22. Improper physical relationship – https://www.onthisday.com/articles/i-did-not-have-sexual-relations-with-that-woman
23. John Cleese – https://www.onthisday.com/people/john-cleese
24. Joseph Pulitzer – https://www.onthisday.com/people/joseph-pulitzer
25. Lewinsky scandal – https://www.onthisday.com/people/monica-lewinsky
26. Lou Gehrig – https://www.onthisday.com/people/lou-gehrig
27. Michael Palin – https://www.onthisday.com/people/michael-palin
28. Monica Lewinsky – https://www.onthisday.com/people/monica-lewinsky
29. Richard Wagner – https://www.onthisday.com/people/richard-wagner
30. Sukarno – https://www.onthisday.com/people/sukarno

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