On This Day:
Sunday August 17, 2014 This is the 229th day of the year, with 136 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: milk Though milk is a liquid, it actually contains about 12-13 percent solids and should be regarded as a food (since tomatoes, carrots, and lettuce actually contain about 6 percent solids).
Holidays Feast day of St. Joan Delanoue, St. Mamas, St. Liberatus of Capua, St. Rock or Roch, St. Clare of Montefalco, St. Hyacinth, and St. Eusebius, pope.
Gabon Republic: National Day (independence from France, 1960).
Indonesia: Independence Day.
Argentina: Anniversary of San Martin's death.
Events 1590 - John White, the leader of 117 colonists sent in 1587 to Roanoke Island (North Carolina) to establish a colony, returned from a trip to England to find the settlement deserted. No trace of the settlers was ever found.
1903 - The first Pulitzer Prize was awarded, as Joseph Pulitzer made a million-dollar donation to Columbia University.
1915 - Charles F. Kettering of Detroit, Michigan patented an electric self-starter for automobiles.
1945 - Indonesian nationalists declared their independence from the Netherlands.
1954 - The Newport Jazz Festival opened at the Newport Casino in Rhode Island.
1978 - The Double Eagle II completed the first transatlantic balloon flight when it landed in a barley field near Paris, 137 hours after lifting off from Presque Isle, Maine.
1999 - An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale struck northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 people.
Births 1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician, lawyer, government official.
1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, soldier.
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn (Goldfish), American movie pioneer.
1893 - Mae West, American playwright, actress.
1921 - Maureen O'Hara (Fitzsimmons), American actress.
Deaths 1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist.
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