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In the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) August 18 report, experts recalled the "horrific events in Charlottesville of 11–12 August 2017 leading to the death of Ms. Heather Heyer, and the injuries inflicted on many other protesters, as well as the terrible beating of Mr. Deandre Harris ...
Disasters and accidents Alexandria train collision Two trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt, killing at least 41 people and injuring at least 179. (BBC) Migrant crisis At least 56 African migrants drown in the Red Sea while traveling from the Horn of Africa to Yemen. Human traffickers had forced 300 people aboard two boats into the sea. (AFP via Yahoo!) Health and medicine Gorakhpur hospital ...
The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia from August 11 to 12, 2017. [16] [17] Jason Kessler, the organizer of the rally, had been protesting for months against the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park in Charlottesville.
The storm makes landfall between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor as a Category 4 hurricane around 11 p.m. EDT (0300 UTC, August 26) as the strongest storm to hit the United States mainland since 2004. The National Hurricane Center predicts Harvey will linger over Texas for days, dumping 15–25 inches (38–64 cm), and as much as 35 inches (89 ...
The Jack Creek Fire was started by a lightning strike on August 11, 2017, about 15 miles southwest of Leavenworth, Washington in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. [1] The lightning was caused by a cold frontal passage that tracked through the area. [2]
August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) ... 1939 – James Mancham, first President of Seychelles (d. 2017) [21] 1939 – Ronnie Dawson, ...
In October 2017, Kessler was named as a defendant in a case brought by nine Charlottesville residents following the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. [42] Kessler was the first named defendant in the case due to his role as a primary organiser of the Unite the Right rally. [43]
On August 11, five months after his disappearance, Bruno Borges returned to his home. [37] He arrived barefoot at 5:22 p.m. His doorbell ringing went unanswered, and Borges had to wait for over an hour before a neighbor appeared to call Borges's father, who came to the door. [2]