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What happend on 17. October in History
In our data base we found 313 events happened on 17. October:
• 33: Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus ⟨b. 14 BC⟩ [category: Deaths]
• 456: Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats the Roman usurper Avitus near Piacenza (Northern Italy) . [category: Events]
• 532: Pope Boniface II [category: Deaths]
• 1091: London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. [category: Events]
• 1174: Petronilla of Aragon (b. 1135) [category: Deaths]
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• 1253: Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303) [category: Births]
• 1346: Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. [category: Events]
• 1448: Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. [category: Events]
• 1456: The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia). [category: Events]
• 1558: Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded. [category: Events]
• 1575: Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511) [category: Deaths]
• 1577: Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621) [category: Births]
• 1577: Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642) [category: Births]
• 1582: Johann Gerhard, German theologian (d. 1637) [category: Births]
• 1586: Philip Sidney, English courtier and soldier (b. 1554) [category: Deaths]
• 1587: Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541) [category: Deaths]
• 1604: Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus. [category: Events]
• 1610: French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims. [category: Events]
• 1616: John Pitts, English scholar (b. 1560) [category: Deaths]
• 1623: Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687) [category: Births]
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• 1660: Adrian Scrope, English military officer (b. 1601) [category: Deaths]
• 1660: Nine regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered. [category: Events]
• 1662: Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds. [category: Events]
• 1673: Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician (b. 1630) [category: Deaths]
• 1688: Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726) [category: Births]
• 1711: Jupiter Hammon, American poet (d. 1806) [category: Births]
• 1719: Jacques Cazotte, French author (d. 1792) [category: Births]
• 1720: Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian composer (d. 1795) [category: Births]
• 1729: Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer (d. 1817) [category: Births]
• 1757: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) [category: Deaths]
• 1760: Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825) [category: Births]
• 1771: Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15. [category: Events]
• 1776: Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681) [category: Deaths]
• 1777: American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York. [category: Events]
• 1780: William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705) [category: Deaths]
• 1781: American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown. [category: Events]
• 1786: Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1800: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao. [category: Events]
• 1806: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian military leader and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758) [category: Deaths]
• 1806: Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule. [category: Events]
• 1811: Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor (d. 1876) [category: Births]
• 1813: Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837) [category: Births]
• 1814: Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888) [category: Births]
• 1814: London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine. [category: Events]
• 1817: Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian educator and politician (d. 1898) [category: Births]
• 1836: Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) [category: Deaths]
• 1837: Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778) [category: Deaths]
• 1849: Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810) [category: Deaths]
• 1853: Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1860: First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). [category: Events]
• 1864: Elinor Glyn, English author and scriptwriter (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1865: James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1868: Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775) [category: Deaths]
• 1883: Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1886: Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1887: Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824) [category: Deaths]
• 1888: Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). [category: Events]
• 1889: Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828) [category: Deaths]
• 1890: Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1892: Herbert Howells, English composer (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1892: Theodor Eicke, German SS general (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1893: Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, President of France (b. 1808) [category: Deaths]
• 1898: Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1898: Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1900: Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1902: Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1903: Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1905: The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia [category: Events]
• 1906: Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1907: Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1908: Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1909: Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1910: Julia Ward Howe, American poet and abolitionist (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1912: Pope John Paul I (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1912: Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founder of the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1912: Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. [category: Events]
• 1914: Jerry Siegel, American writer and illustrator (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1915: Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1917: Marsha Hunt, American actress [category: Births]
• 1917: Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1917: First British bombing of Germany in World War I. [category: Events]
• 1918: Ralph Wilson, American businessman [category: Births]
• 1918: Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1919: Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist [category: Births]
• 1919: RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America. [category: Events]
• 1920: Miguel Delibes, Spanish author (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1920: Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1921: George Mackay Brown, Scottish Poet (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1921: Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1921: Priscilla Buckley, American author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1921: Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1922: Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1922: Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1923: Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1923: Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1924: Anton Geiser, Yugoslav SS officer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1924: Don Coryell, American football coach (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1925: Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1926: Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1926: Julie Adams, American actress [category: Births]
• 1928: Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1930: Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1931: Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1931: Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion. [category: Events]
• 1933: Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1933: William Anders, American general and astronaut [category: Births]
• 1933: Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. [category: Events]
• 1934: Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1934: Rico Rodriguez, American trombonist [category: Births]
• 1934: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Sydney Chapman, English politician and architect [category: Births]
• 1936: Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist [category: Births]
• 1936: Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1937: Paxton Whitehead, English actor [category: Births]
• 1937: J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman, survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Evel Knievel, American motorcycle stuntman (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1938: Les Murray, Australian poet [category: Births]
• 1938: Karl Kautsky, Czech-German theoretician (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Jim Smith, English footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1940: Peter Stringfellow, English nightclub owner [category: Births]
• 1940: Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor [category: Births]
• 1941: Earl Thomas Conley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1941: For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. [category: Events]
• 1941: German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece. [category: Events]
• 1942: Gary Puckett, American singer-songwriter (Gary Puckett & The Union Gap) [category: Births]
• 1942: Steve Jones, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1943: Stefan Starzyński, Polish economist and politician (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed. [category: Events]
• 1943: The Holocaust: Sobibor extermination camp is closed. [category: Events]
• 1945: A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. It calls "el día de la lealtad peronista" (peronista loyalty day) [category: Events]
• 1945: Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King Georgios II to Greece. [category: Events]
• 1946: Adam Michnik, Polish historian [category: Births]
• 1946: Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter [category: Births]
• 1946: Cameron Mackintosh, English theater producer [category: Births]
• 1946: Drusilla Modjeska, English author [category: Births]
• 1946: Michael Hossack, American drummer (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1946: Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1947: Gene Green, American politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Michael McKean, American actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Simi Garewal, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1948: George Wendt, American actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Margot Kidder, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1948: Robert Jordan, American author (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1950: Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1950: Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal [category: Births]
• 1951: Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater [category: Births]
• 1951: Roger Pontare, Swedish singer [category: Births]
• 1951: Shari Ulrich, Canadian singer-songwriter (Hometown Band, The Pied Pumkin, and UHF) [category: Births]
• 1953: Joseph Bowie, American trombonist (Defunkt) [category: Births]
• 1954: Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1955: George Alogoskoufis, Greek economist and politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Mae Jemison, American physician and astronaut [category: Births]
• 1956: Pat McCrory, American politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize. [category: Events]
• 1956: The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England. [category: Events]
• 1957: Lawrence Bender, American film producer [category: Births]
• 1957: Steve McMichael, American football player [category: Births]
• 1957: Vincent Van Patten, American actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1958: Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic [category: Births]
• 1959: Richard Roeper, American columnist and critic [category: Births]
• 1959: Ron Drummond, American author and scholar [category: Births]
• 1959: Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Guy Henry, English actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Rob Marshall, American director [category: Births]
• 1961: Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police. [category: Events]
• 1962: Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1963: Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1963: Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer [category: Births]
• 1964: Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra. [category: Events]
• 1965: Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer [category: Births]
• 1965: Bart King, Filipino cricketer (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event. [category: Events]
• 1966: Danny Ferry, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1966: Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter, and author [category: Births]
• 1966: Tommy Kendall, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1966: Sidney Hatch, American runner (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Wieland Wagner, German director (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: A fire at a building in New York City kills 12 firefighters, the fire department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks. [category: Events]
• 1966: Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations. [category: Events]
• 1967: René Dif, Danish singer and actor (Aqua) [category: Births]
• 1967: Seung-Jun Kim, South Korean voice actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Puyi, Chinese emperor of China (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor (Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers) [category: Births]
• 1969: Ernie Els, South African golfer [category: Births]
• 1969: Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian [category: Births]
• 1969: Wood Harris, American actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Wyclef Jean, Haitian rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor (Fugees) [category: Births]
• 1970: Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1970: Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, composer, and producer (Poison) [category: Births]
• 1970: John Mabry, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1970: Shauna O'Brien, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Pierre Laporte, Canadian lawyer, journalist, and politician (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Quincy Wright, American political scientist (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group. [category: Events]
• 1971: Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer, dancer, and voice actor ('N Sync) [category: Births]
• 1971: Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player (Seigmen and Zeromancer) [category: Births]
• 1972: Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor (D12, Outsidaz, and Bad Meets Evil) [category: Births]
• 1972: Joe McEwing, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1972: Sharon Leal, American actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Tarkan, German-Turkish singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1972: Billy Williams, American singer (The Charioteers) (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria. [category: Events]
• 1974: Ariel Levy, American author [category: Births]
• 1974: Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player (HIM) [category: Births]
• 1974: John Rocker, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Matthew Macfadyen, English actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Francis Bouillon, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1975: Janne Aikala, Finnish murder victim (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1976: Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Alimi Ballard, American actor [category: Births]
• 1977: André Villas-Boas, Portuguese football manager [category: Births]
• 1977: Bryan Bertino, American director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1977: Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board. [category: Events]
• 1978: Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player [category: Births]
• 1978: Giovanni Gronchi, Italian politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist [category: Births]
• 1979: Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver [category: Births]
• 1979: Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist (Stream of Passion and Elfonía) [category: Births]
• 1979: John Stuart, Scottish actor (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: S. J. Perelman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [category: Events]
• 1979: The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services. [category: Events]
• 1980: Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1980: Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer [category: Births]
• 1980: Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player [category: Births]
• 1980: As part of the Holy See – United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican [category: Events]
• 1981: Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Daniel Booko, American actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Felicity Jones, British actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Mitch Talbot, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Raymond Aron, French philosopher (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Chris Lowell, American actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player [category: Births]
• 1984: Randall Munroe, American cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1985: Baran Kosari, Iranian actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Collins John, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Christina Crawford, American wrestler and dancer [category: Births]
• 1988: Yuko Oshima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48 and Not Yet) [category: Births]
• 1989: 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly). [category: Events]
• 1990: Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Sam Concepcion, Filipino singer, dancer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (Savatage) (b. 1963) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. [category: Events]
• 1996: Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Larry Jennings, American magician (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. [category: Events]
• 1999: Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack. [category: Events]
• 2001: Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and pianist (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli general and politician (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack. [category: Events]
• 2002: Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Derek Bell, Irish pianist and songwriter (The Chieftains) (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 56 metres (184 ft) and become the world's tallest highrise. [category: Events]
• 2004: Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Ba Jin, Chinese author (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Joey Bishop, American actor (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Suzy Covey, American scholar (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Levi Stubbs, American singer and actor (Four Tops) (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bandya Kakade, Indian footballer (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Frank Moore Cross, American scholar and academic (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 539_bc: Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile. Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Yehud Medinata and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. [category: Events]
• _: Catervus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Dessalines Day (Haiti) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Ignatius of Antioch [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Loyalty Day (Argentina) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Marguerite Marie Alacoque (formerly) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Richard Gwyn [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Rule of Andrew [category: Holidays and observances]