August 17 in history: • 1676 – Scanian War: Swedish forces defeated Danish troops at the Battle of Halmstad. → go there • 1876 – The premiere of Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner (pictured) closed the first Bayreuth Festival. → go there • 1915 – A category 4 hurricane made landfall in Galveston, Texas, leaving at least 275 people dead. → go there • 1943 – Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in a secret conference in Quebec. → go there • 1945 – The independence of Indonesia was proclaimed, igniting a revolution against the Dutch Empire. → go there Died 949: Li Shouzhen Wiki link Born 1936: Margaret Hamilton Wiki link Born 1991: Austin Butler Wiki link Born 2001: Kim Kum Yong Wiki link Pictured: Richard Wagner.