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Movie events on the 17th August
Billy the Kid wounds a blacksmith who dies the next day. (Arizona) (Young Guns)
Mae West is born. (Brooklyn, New York) (Marlene)
D.W. Griffith signs with Biograph. (Good Morning, Babylon)
Carlson's Raiders land on Makin Island. (Western Pacific Ocean) (Gallant Hours, The )
Patton and his 7th Army arrive in Messina several hours before British Field Marshal Montgomery and his 8th Army. (Sicily) (Patton)
Oscar "Happy" Felsch dies. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (Eight Men Out)
Col. Jonathan Davis orders repairs stop on Wind Machine Rig # 35. (Cadence)
Jeb Stuart Magruder pleads guilty to helping plan Watergate break-in. (All the President's Men)
Rudolf Hess is found strangled to death in Spandau Prison. (Berlin, Germany) (Wild Geese II )