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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

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Year	Name
1957	Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist
1985	Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer
1900	Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
1950	Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
1971	Derrick Plourde, American drummer (d. 2005)
1963	Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
1901	Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator (d. 1973)
1919	Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
1936	Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (d. 1993)
1908	Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player (d. 1980)

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
1987	Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2019	Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951)
1972	Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
1970	Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
1983	Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
2013	Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
1938	Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
2015	Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (b. 1926)
1957	Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (b. 1884)
1999	Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)