About October 17
October 17, 2020 is the 291st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 118 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.
- 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.
- 1660 –Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 1662 –Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
- 1806 –Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
- 1860 –First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1980 –As part of the Holy See – United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
- 2010 –Mary MacKillop is canonized (in Rome) and becomes the first saint of Australia.
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