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Business and economy Affirmative action in the United States The U.S. Justice Department announces internally that it is to start investigating colleges which have admissions policies that are seen as unfair to Asian Americans. (Newsweek) (The New York Times) Disasters and accidents Floods in the United States Several streets in Miami and Miami Beach are underwater after Tropical Depression ...
21 April – Britain goes a full day without using coal power to generate electricity for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, according to the National Grid. [50] 29 April – The UK's Anthony Joshua becomes WBA World Heavyweight Champion after beating Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium. [51]
August 2 in recent years ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year ... American theorist, author, and academic (d. 2017) 1939 – Wes Craven, American director, ...
2 January The government announces proposals to build seventeen new towns and villages across the English countryside. [2] Yassar Yaqub is killed in a police shooting during an operation on the M62 near Huddersfield. [3] 9 January – Seven year old Katie Rough is fatally asphyxiated and stabbed in the neck near her home in Woodthorpe, York.
January 14: Ratification Day in the United States Poster for the premiere of Tosca 1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty , which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.
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August 2017 sports events in the United Kingdom (2 C, 8 P) Pages in category "August 2017 events in the United Kingdom" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.