Historical Events for 17th August 2023

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1891 - Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1918 - Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1926 - Greek-Serbian, Croatian and Slavs peace treaty signed
1936 - An unemployed worker, Neils B. Ruud, in Madison, Wisconsin, receives the first unemployment benefit check paid under a State law, for $15
1948 - Phillies commit 8 errors in a baseball game for the 2nd time
1948 - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1985 - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
1986 - Bronze pig statue unveiled at Pike Place Market, Seattle
2008 - Canadian Open Women's Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Australian Katherine Hull wins by 1 from Se Ri Pak
2013 - 15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo

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