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would be
August 17, 1955 (Wednesday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Day numbers: 229
• Week number: 33
• Leap year: 1955 is not a leap year
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for August 17, 1955 (Wednesday)
• Sunrise time: 06:46 am
• Sunset time: 08:28 pm
• Day length: 13h 42m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for August 17, 1955 (Wednesday)
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 1%
• Moon Age: 0.15 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
August 17, 1955 Holidays and National Days
August 17 in History
2012
Moscow’s top court upholds a ban of gay pride events in Russia’s capital city for 100 years.
2005
Israel begins the first forced evacuation of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, as part of a unilateral disengagement plan.
1999
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake near Izmit, Turkey kills over 17,000 and injures nearly 45,000.
1998
President Bill Clinton admits to the American public that he had affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1988
Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq is killed in an airplane crash suspected of being an assassination.
1987
93-year-old Rudolf Hess, former Nazi leader and deputy of Adolf Hitler, is found hanged to death in Spandau Prison.
1978
Three Americans complete the first crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon.
1960
American Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty at his Moscow trial for spying over the Soviet Union in a U-2 plane.
1945
Upon hearing confirmation that Japan has surrendered, Sukarno proclaims Indonesia’s independence.
1944
The mayor of Paris, Pierre Charles Tattinger, meets with the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz to protest the explosives being deployed throughout the city.
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