About October 17
October 17, 2024 is the 291st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 104 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 17
- 1091 –London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
- 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.
- 1660 –Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 1771 –Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
- 1814 –London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
- 1860 –First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
- 1888 –Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
- 1905 –The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
- 1931 –Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
- 1941 –German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
- 1961 –Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
- 1964 –Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
- 1966 –Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
- 1970 –Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
- 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.
- 1979 –Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 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.
- 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 m and become the World’s tallest highrise.
- 2010 –Mary MacKillop is canonized (in Rome) and becomes the first saint of Australia.
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