Land speed record set by Gary Gabelich in a rocket powered automobile called the Blue Flame
Happend on 17. August 1850
Argentine's War of Independence hero, General José de San MartÃn, dies in Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), at the age of 77.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson