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Disasters and accidents Residents evacuated from Greenhorn Gulch area in Idaho from the Beaver Creek fire. (CNN) 31 people dead and at least 170 are missing as a ferry sinks after colliding with a cargo ship in Philippines. (BBC) A wildfire erupts near Yosemite National Park, growing to 25 square miles (~65 square kilometers) overnight. (KTVU) Law and crime While they are not yet ready to say ...
The Rim Fire was a massive wildfire that started in a remote canyon in the Stanislaus National Forest in California's Tuolumne County.The fire ignited on August 17, 2013, amid the 2013 California wildfire season, and burned 257,314 acres (402 sq mi; 104,131 ha; 1,041 km 2) in largely remote areas of the Sierra Nevada, including a large portion of Yosemite National Park.
International relations American National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is granted a one-year temporary political asylum in Russia and leaves Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. (RT) (CNN) In talks in Manila, the Philippines and Vietnam agree to work together on a framework for resolving maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea. (Voice of America) Law and crime Russian ...
August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 2013 – Jack Harshman, American baseball player (b. 1927) [130]
UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Sonnen (also known as UFC Fight Night 26) was a mixed martial arts event held on August 17, 2013, at the TD Garden in Boston. [2] Background
Islan Nettles was beaten to death in Harlem just after midnight on August 17, 2013. [1] The killer, James Dixon, was not indicted until March 2015, despite turning himself in three days after the attack and confessing that he had flown into "a blind fury" when he realized that Nettles was a transgender woman. [2]
The game was played on August 17, 2013 at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, home of the Orlando Predators. [1] The two teams met one year earlier in ArenaBowl XXV, in which the Rattlers took home the league championship by a score of 72–54. This was the first time that two teams met in consecutive ArenaBowls.
On August 17, 2013, SNICK returned to The '90s Are All That, for its "SNICK-iversary", celebrating its 21st anniversary, reaching drinking age if it were a person. The original lineup was aired ( Clarissa Explains It All , The Ren & Stimpy Show and Are You Afraid of the Dark?