The Unite the Right rally, also known as the Charlottesville rally or Charlottesville riots,[4] was a white supremacist[5][6][7][8] rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017.[9][10] Protesters were members of the far-right and included self-identified members of the alt-right,[11] neo-Confederates,[12] white nationalists[13] Klansmen,[14] neo-Nazis,[15] and various militias.[16] The marchers chanted racist and antisemiticslogans, carried semi-automatic rifles, swastikas, Nazi symbols (such as the Odal rune, Black Sun, and Iron Cross), the Valknut, Confederate battle flags, Deus Vult crosses, flags and other symbols of various past and present anti-Muslim and antisemitic groups.[8][9][17][18][19][20] Within the Charlottesville area, the rally is often known as A12[21] or 8/12.[22] The organizers’ stated goals included unifying the American white nationalist movement[11] and to oppose removing a statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park[19][23].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed “The Great American Eclipse” by the media,[1] was a total solar eclipse visible within a band that spanned the entire contiguous United States, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. As a partial solar eclipse, it was visible on land from Nunavut in northern Canada to as far south as northern South America. In northwestern Europe and Africa, it was partially visible in the late evening. In Asia, it was visible only at the eastern extremity, the Chukchi Peninsula.
Prior to this event, no solar eclipse had been visible across the entire contiguous United States since June 8, 1918; not since the February 1979 eclipse had a total eclipse been visible from anywhere in the mainland United States.[2] The Path of Totality touched 14 states, and the rest of the U.S. had a partial eclipse.[2] The area of the path of totality was about 16 percent of the area of the United States,[3] [4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel)