Quote - That date keeps popping up in unexpected places in history doesn't it?

There are millions of significant historical events (the number varies, of course, based on each person's definition of significant) and only 366 possible dates in the Gregorian calendar. In all likelihood, there are thousands of events that happened on the past on August 17, especially if you extrapolate the calendar backwards in time to periods before it was in use.

Personally, I'm looking forward much more eagerly to July 20 of this year, an anniversary that has significant appeal to me... not the least reason for which is that I got out of school 40 years ago for the event.

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