Notable Historical Events on October 17th
October 17th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
539 |
King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration. |
BC AD | |
415 |
Jewish autonomy in Palestine ended by the Romans and Raban Gamliel forced from office |
532 |
Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
733 |
Battle at Tours (Poitiers): Charles Martel's Frankish and Burgundian forces beat those of al-Andalus under Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi halting influence of Islam |
1346 |
Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. |
1387 |
Swells convent Windesheim initiated |
1404 |
Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII |
1448 |
Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. |
1456 |
The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern continental Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia) |
1483 |
Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain |
1556 |
Ex-emperor Karel departs Netherland for Spain |
1651 |
Future King Charles II flees from England |
1660 |
Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged. |
1662 |
Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds) |
1691 |
New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth |
1720 |
Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris |
1740 |
Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia |
1777 |
British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY |
1781 |
Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown |
1787 |
Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities |
1797 |
Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France |
1800 |
Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England |
1806 |
Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule. |
1808 |
Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw |
1814 |
London Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine. |
1825 |
1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris |
1829 |
Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens |
1829 |
1st supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser |
1831 |
Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres |
1850 |
Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized |
1855 |
Bessemer steelmaking process patented |
1860 |
1st British Golf Open: Willie Park Snr shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club, Scotland |
1862 |
Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA |
1868 |
Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect |
1871 |
Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa |
1871 |
President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus during US Civil War |
1876 |
Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River |
1877 |
Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa |
1878 |
After serving as the opposition for five years, John A. Macdonald is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada |
1885 |
Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season |
1888 |
Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). |
1894 |
Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man |
1896 |
Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka," premieres in St Petersburg |
1899 |
Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000 |
1904 |
Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors |
1907 |
Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. |
1912 |
Bulgaria, Greece & Serbia declares war on Turkey |
1916 |
Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage |
1917 |
1st British bombing of Germany |
1918 |
De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens |
1918 |
Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic |
1919 |
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created |
1920 |
Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0 |
1921 |
Belgium's public library law goes into force |
1922 |
Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London |
1923 |
Catholic University of Nijmegen Neth opens |
1927 |
Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president |
1931 |
Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison |
1933 |
Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany |
1934 |
"The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio |
1935 |
Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics |
1939 |
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", starring Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur, is released |
1940 |
German occupiers issue identity cards |
1941 |
1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland |
1943 |
Liberators sink U-540 & U-631 |
1945 |
Loyalty Day in Argentina, mass demonstrations held to release Juan Perón |
1951 |
Egyptian army fires on British troops |
1954 |
Phila Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21) |
1955 |
Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel |
1956 |
England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens |
1956 |
Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt |
1957 |
"Copper & Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances |
1957 |
Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit the White House |
1957 |
Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed |
1957 |
French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature |
1957 |
II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan |
1959 |
"Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 perfs |
1959 |
Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse |
1959 |
Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated |
1960 |
"Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances |
1960 |
US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases |
1961 |
22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow |
1961 |
Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians |
1961 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m |
1961 |
NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd |
1962 |
Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship |
1963 |
"Jennie" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 82 performances |
1964 |
Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra |
1965 |
"On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in NYC for 280 perfs |
1965 |
WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
"Hair" premieres on Broadway |
1967 |
Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS |
1967 |
Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue |
1967 |
Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969 |
NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY |
1969 |
Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK |
1969 |
Soyuz 7 returns to Earth |
1970 |
Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt |
1971 |
Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens |
1971 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Quality-First Golf Classic |
1971 |
Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series |
1971 |
It is estimated today that approximately 16,000 households were withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland |
1972 |
1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins |
1972 |
Bob Randall's "6 Rooms Riv Vu," premieres in NYC |
1972 |
Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1 |
1972 |
The Ulster Defence Association open fire on the British Army in several areas of Belfast |
1973 |
OPEC oil ministers agree to use oil weapon in Arab-Israeli War, mandate cut in exports, and recommend embargo against unfriendly states |
1974 |
"Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per |
1974 |
NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak |
1974 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3 |
1974 |
Oakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series |
1975 |
1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss |
1975 |
UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism" |
1976 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1976 |
Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997) |
1977 |
Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament |
1977 |
West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers |
1978 |
NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8) |
1978 |
NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series |
1978 |
Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship |
1978 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1978 |
Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year |
1979 |
"Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 perfs |
1979 |
D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8 |
1979 |
Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1979 |
Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series |
1979 |
Pres Carter signs legislation creating Dept of Education |
1980 |
1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW v Qld (2-52 & 1-39) |
1982 |
1st live orch on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony) |
1982 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1982 |
Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series |
1982 |
Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in NYC |
1982 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1983 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu |
1983 |
STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem |
1984 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield |
1985 |
French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature |
1985 |
Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager |
1986 |
US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982 |
1986 |
Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government |
1987 |
"Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances |
1987 |
1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome) |
1987 |
1st Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy |
1988 |
31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome |
1988 |
Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees |
1988 |
Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment |
1988 |
Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft |
1988 |
Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title |
1988 |
Traveling Wilbury's 1st release "Handle With Care" |
1989 |
Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67 |
1990 |
"Jackie Mason - Brand New" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 perfs |
1990 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, NY & His Majesty's Theatre, Perth |
1990 |
Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong drops out of school to pursue a career in music |
1991 |
Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races |
1991 |
Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates for NL pennant in 7 games |
1991 |
News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby |
1991 |
Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals & 744 assists) |
1992 |
1st World Series with non-US team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves |
1993 |
Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf |
1994 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf |
1994 |
Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena |
1994 |
Kapil Dev's final one-day international (v West Indies) |
1995 |
Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000 |
1996 |
"Taking Sides," opens at Atkinson Theater NYC |
1998 |
At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. |
2000 |
Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack. |
2003 |
The pinnacle was 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 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise. |
2003 |
Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics. |
2005 |
The Colbert Report first airs. |
2006 |
The United States population reaches 300 million. |
2007 |
The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal. |
2012 |
The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri |
2012 |
Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal |
2012 |
Tens of thousands protest austerity measures in Greece |
2013 |
59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq |
2016 |
Iraq launches Mosul offensive to drive out Islamic State |
2016 |
China launches longest manned space mission |
2016 |
North Carolina estimates $1.5 billion in hurricane damage to buildings |
2016 |
US sprinter Tyson Gay's daughter, 15, shot dead in Kentucky |
2017 |
North Korea says 'a nuclear war may break out any moment' |
2017 |
Egypt says Ramses II temple unearthed southwest of Cairo |
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