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August 17:

 * 1834 - Charles Darwin, during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, spent the day at the summit of Cerro La Campana in Chile.
 * 1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed Bahia, Brazil to finally head home.
 * 1909 - Earl Douglass of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History discovered a series of eight articulated Apatosaurus tail vertebrae in Utah, USA.
 * 1978 - John Marwick died in Hastings, New Zealand.