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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48875)8/17/2005 4:23:46 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Respond to of 50167
 
August 17:

1807 - Robert Fulton started the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1896 - Bridget Driscoll became the first person to be killed in a petrol-driven car accident.
1962 - East German border guards shot and killed Peter Fechter as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin.
1969 - Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars).
1988 - President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan was killed in a plane crash.