On This Day
August 17th

1858 1st bank in Hawaii opens. 1908 Bank of Italy opens it's new headquarters at Clay & Montgomery. 1950 Indonesia gains it's independence.          Independence Day, celebrated in Indonesia

Birthdays

1786 Davy Crockett (King of the Wild Frontier, died at the Alamo in 1836) 1892 Mae West. Go up and see her sometime. (If you don't mind being dead!)