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August 17th is known as Thrift Shop Day and Black Cat Appreciation Day.
2017– Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a van into pedestrians on La Rambla in Barcelona, Spain, killing 14 people and injuring at least 130 others.
The 22-year-old attacker then killed another person in order to steal the victim’s car to make his escape.
2008- American swimmer Michael Phelps became the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
1978- Three Americans made the first successful Atlantic Ocean crossing by hot air balloon.
Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman, and Max Anderson spent six days traveling in a hot air balloon that left Maine, USA, and arrived in France. Although the record was broken when they reached the Irish coast, the trio wanted to make the achievement more significant by landing in Paris.
1915- A tropical cyclone hurricane hit Galveston in Texas.
The storm killed 405 people and caused $30 million in damages, roughly equivalent to $110 billion in today’s money.
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