About October 17
October 17, 2022 is the 290th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 97 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 17
- 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.
- 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.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1888 –Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
- 1905 –The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
- 1912 –Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
- 1931 –Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
- 1941 –German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
- 1943 –Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
- 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.
- 1956 –The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
- 1966 –A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department’s deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- 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.
- 2000 –Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
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