About October 17
October 17, 2025 is the 290th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.
Are you looking for a day of the week calculator? Try it on any date like anniversaries, birthday of someone you know, or any other date that is special to you. You can even try it on historical dates. For example: October 17
(Sponsored by DayOfTheWeek.org)
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 123 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 17
- 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.
- 1456 –The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
- 1604 –Kepler’s Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
- 1610 –French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
- 1662 –Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
- 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.
- 1933 –Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
- 1941 –For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
- 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 –Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
- 1973 –OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
- 1979 –Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1998 –At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
- 2001 –Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
- 2010 –Mary MacKillop is canonized (in Rome) and becomes the first saint of Australia.
What no one tells you about your first name’s personality. Are there magical powers in your given name? Check out Bennie’s personality today! (Sponsored links)
Share or Link to This Page: