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August 17 is the 229
th day of the year (230
th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 136 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1951 - President Harry Truman discusses disability employment at the annual meeting of the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week.
- 2007 - The Japanese government removes support and subsidies for Naked Sign Language News produced by Paradise Television after the government changed funding guidelines for programming aimed at the disabled to exclude pornography.[1]
References
- ↑ "Naked TV news stripped of subsidy, carries on." Reuters. Accessed on March 10, 2008.
