Historical Events on October 17, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on October 17th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest. |
| 2019 | The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon. |
| 2018 | The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada. |
| 2018 | Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea. |
| 2017 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.[16] |
| 2003 | Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest high-rise. |
| 2001 | Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack. |
| 2000 | The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack. |
| 1994 | Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. |
| 1992 | Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
| 1991 | 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.[13][14] |
| 1989 | The 6.9 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63. |
| 1989 | The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary. |
| 1988 | Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people. |
| 1980 | As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican. |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1979 | The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education. |
| 1977 | The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued. |
| 1973 | OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War. |
| 1970 | FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte. |
| 1969 | The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. |
| 1966 | The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters. |
| 1965 | The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees. |
| 1961 | Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters. |
| 1961 | The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.[7][8][9] |
| 1956 | The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England. |
| 1952 | Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council. |
| 1945 | A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release. |
| 1943 | The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed. |
| 1943 | Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed. |
| 1941 | World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat. |
| 1940 | The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery. |
| 1933 | Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. |
| 1931 | Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. |
| 1919 | Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I |
| 1912 | Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. |
| 1907 | Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service. |
| 1861 | Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre. |
| 1860 | First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). |
| 1850 | Riots start, which lead to a massacre in Aleppo. |
| 1814 | Eight people die in the London Beer Flood. |
| 1811 | The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence. |
| 1806 | Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule. |
| 1800 | War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao. |
| 1781 | American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown. |
| 1777 | American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York. |
| 1771 | Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15. |
| 1713 | Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne. |
| 1662 | Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds. |
| 1660 | The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered. |
| 1610 | French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral. |
| 1604 | Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus. |
| 1558 | Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded. |
| 1534 | Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass. |
| 1456 | The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe. |
| 1448 | An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo. |
| 1346 | The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years. |
| 1091 | London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. |
| 690 | Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China. |
Famous People Born on October 17
Here is a random list who born on October 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1966 | Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager |
| 1900 | Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1917 | Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991) |
| 1919 | Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014) |
| 1961 | David Means, American short story writer |
| 1955 | Mike Bratz, American basketball player |
| 1913 | Robert Lowery, American actor (d. 1971) |
| 1967 | Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player |
| 1946 | Julio Miranda, Argentine politician (d. 2021) |
| 1900 | C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932) |
Famous People Deaths On October 17
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on October 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 2014 | Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937) |
| 2019 | Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951) |
| 1955 | Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873) |
| 1552 | Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498) |
| 1776 | Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681) |
| 1910 | Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819) |
| 1967 | Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906) |
| 2011 | Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919) |
| 1690 | Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647) |
| 1786 | Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723) |
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