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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1610 –French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
- 1660 –Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1814 –London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
- 1860 –First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
- 1905 –The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
- 1907 –Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
- 1931 –Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
- 1980 –As part of the Holy See – United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
- 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.
- 2001 –Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
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