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📜 Today in History – August 17 | From ancient papal successions to modern space exploration, disasters, and independence movements, discover the key events that shaped this day across centuries.

✨ On August 17, history witnessed:

682: Saint Leo II becomes Pope

1544: Fall of Saint-Dizier during the Italian Wars

1585: Antwerp captured by Spanish forces

1786: Birth of Davy Crockett in Tennessee

1807: Robert Fulton’s steamboat Clermont begins voyage

1862: Dakota War erupts in Minnesota

1908: Release of Fantasmagorie, the first fully animated film

1943: US bombings of Schweinfurt and Regensburg in WWII

1945: Indonesia declares independence

1962: Peter Fechter killed at Berlin Wall

1969: Hurricane Camille devastates Mississippi

1970: Soviet Venera 7 launched toward Venus

1978: Double Eagle II completes first transatlantic balloon flight

1988: Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq dies in plane crash

1999: 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Turkey

2017: Terror attack on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas 🇪🇸

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