August 17

August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years), with 136 days remaining.


 * 1839 – Lincoln writes and signs an agreement between the parties involved in the libel suit of Logan v. Adams.


 * 1848 – Lincoln signs form  letter from Whig Executive Committee to Whig politicians, addresses, and dispatches them under his frank.


 * 1849 – In the Sangamon County Circuit Court case of Wilbourn v. Crenshaw et al., Lincoln files a declaration for his client