This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Today in History highlights and anniversaries
August 17 events span 1915 Cobb County lynching of Leo Frank to 2017 Barcelona van attack. Notable items include Fulton’s steamboat 1807, Fort Sumter bombardment 1863, Hoffa 1964 sentence, ABBA CD 1982, Gershwin 1983, Hess 1987, Zia-Raphel 1988, Clinton 1998, Turkey quake 1999, Biden in Beijing 2013, Trump campaign shakeup 2017, Semenya Rio debut, Arthur Hiller death.
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Cobb County
Georgia
Leo Frank
Mary Phagan
Frank
State of
Hudson River
New York
Albany
Fort Sumter
Charleston Harbor
U.S. 8Th Air Force
Rouen
France
U.S
Makin Island
Teamsters Union
Jimmy Hoffa
Chicago
Hoffa
Richard Nixon
Maxie Anderson
Ben Abruzzo
Larry Newman
Paris
Philips
Hanover
West Germany
Ira Gershwin
Beverly Hills
Calif
Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hitler
Spandau Prison
Mohammad Zia Ul- Haq
Arnold Raphel
Bill Clinton
White House
Monica Lewinsky
Lewinsky
Kenneth Starr
Turkey
Barcelona
Joe Biden
Beijing
Xi Jinping
Donald Trump
Steve Bannon
Breitbart News
Kellyanne Conway
Caster Semenya
South Africa
Semenya
Arthur Hiller
Los Angeles