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October 17th, 2007 (October 17 2007) | Event | The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal. | |
October 17th, 2007 (October 17 2007) | Death | Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (born in 1918) | |
October 17th, 2007 (October 17 2007) | Death | Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (born in 1931) | |
October 17th, 2006 (October 17 2006) | Event | The United States population reaches 300 million. | |
October 17th, 2006 (October 17 2006) | Death | Daniel Emilfork, French actor (born in 1924) | |
October 17th, 2006 (October 17 2006) | Death | Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (born in 1938) | |
October 17th, 2005 (October 17 2005) | Event | The Colbert Report first airs. | |
October 17th, 2005 (October 17 2005) | Death | Ba Jin, Chinese writer (born in 1904) | Ba Jin Quotes |
October 17th, 2005 (October 17 2005) | Death | Franky Gee, European techno artist (born in 1962) | |
October 17th, 2004 (October 17 2004) | Death | Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (born in 1952) | |
October 17th, 2003 (October 17 2003) | Event | The pinnacle was 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 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World s tallest highrise. | |
October 17th, 2003 (October 17 2003) | Event | Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics. | |
October 17th, 2002 (October 17 2002) | Death | Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (born in 1935) | |
October 17th, 2002 (October 17 2002) | Death | Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (born in 1906) | |
October 17th, 2001 (October 17 2001) | Death | Jay Livingston, American songwriter (born in 1915) | |
October 17th, 2001 (October 17 2001) | Death | Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (born in 1926) | |
October 17th, 2000 (October 17 2000) | Event | Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack. | |
October 17th, 2000 (October 17 2000) | Death | Leo Nomellini, wrestler (born in 1924) | |
October 17th, 1999 (October 17 1999) | Death | Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (born in 1915) | |
October 17th, 1998 (October 17 1998) | Event | At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. | |
October 17th, 1998 (October 17 1998) | Death | Joan Hickson, British actress (born in 1906) | |
October 17th, 1998 (October 17 1998) | Death | Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist | |
October 17th, 1996 (October 17 1996) | Death | Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (born in 1966) | |
October 17th, 1993 (October 17 1993) | Death | Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (born in 1963) | |
October 17th, 1992 (October 17 1992) | Birth | Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor | |
October 17th, 1992 (October 17 1992) | Death | Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (born in 1912) | |
October 17th, 1992 (October 17 1992) | Death | Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor (born in 1908) | |
October 17th, 1991 (October 17 1991) | Death | Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (born in 1919) | |
October 17th, 1989 (October 17 1989) | Event | Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly). | |
October 17th, 1989 (October 17 1989) | Birth | Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress | |
October 17th, 1987 (October 17 1987) | Birth | Bea Alonzo, Filipina actress | |
October 17th, 1987 (October 17 1987) | Birth | Jaroslaw Fojut, Polish footballer | |
October 17th, 1984 (October 17 1984) | Birth | Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player | |
October 17th, 1984 (October 17 1984) | Birth | Chris Lowell, American actor | |
October 17th, 1984 (October 17 1984) | Birth | Randall Munroe, American webcomic author | |
October 17th, 1983 (October 17 1983) | Birth | Daniel Booko, American actor | |
October 17th, 1983 (October 17 1983) | Birth | Ivan Saenko, Russian football player | |
October 17th, 1983 (October 17 1983) | Death | Raymond Aron, French philosopher (born in 1905) | Philo Quotes |
October 17th, 1982 (October 17 1982) | Birth | Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer | |
October 17th, 1981 (October 17 1981) | Death | Albert Cohen, Swiss author (born in 1895) | |
October 17th, 1980 (October 17 1980) | Birth | Ekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player | |
October 17th, 1980 (October 17 1980) | Birth | Alessandro Piccolo, Italian racing driver | |
October 17th, 1979 (October 17 1979) | Event | Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | |
October 17th, 1979 (October 17 1979) | Event | The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services. Both replace the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. | |
October 17th, 1979 (October 17 1979) | Birth | Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist (Stream of Passion) | |
October 17th, 1979 (October 17 1979) | Birth | Kimi Raikkonen, Finnish race car driver | |
October 17th, 1979 (October 17 1979) | Birth | Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player | |
October 17th, 1979 (October 17 1979) | Death | S. J. Perelman, American writer (born in 1904) | S. J. Perelman Quotes |
October 17th, 1979 (October 17 1979) | Death | John Stuart, Scottish actor (born in 1898) | John Scott Quotes |
October 17th, 1977 (October 17 1977) | Event | German Autumn: Four days after it was hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board. | |
October 17th, 1977 (October 17 1977) | Birth | Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer | |
October 17th, 1977 (October 17 1977) | Birth | Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter | |
October 17th, 1976 (October 17 1976) | Birth | Sebastian Abreu, Uruguayan footballer | |
October 17th, 1975 (October 17 1975) | Birth | Francis Bouillon, American hockey player | |
October 17th, 1974 (October 17 1974) | Birth | Matthew Macfadyen, British actor | |
October 17th, 1974 (October 17 1974) | Birth | Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboarder (HIM) | |
October 17th, 1974 (October 17 1974) | Birth | John Rocker, American baseball player | |
October 17th, 1973 (October 17 1973) | Event | OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria. | |
October 17th, 1973 (October 17 1973) | Death | Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (born in 1926) | |
October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Birth | Eminem, American rapper | Eminem Quotes |
October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Birth | Tarkan, Turkish singer | Tarkan Quotes |
October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Birth | Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer | |
October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Birth | Joe McEwing, American baseball player | |
October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Death | Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1914) | |
October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Death | Prince George of Yugoslavia (born in 1887) | |
October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Death | Billy Williams, American singer (born in 1910) | |
October 17th, 1971 (October 17 1971) | Birth | Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ( N Sync) | |
October 17th, 1970 (October 17 1970) | Event | Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group. | |
October 17th, 1970 (October 17 1970) | Birth | Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer | |
October 17th, 1970 (October 17 1970) | Birth | John Mabry, American baseball player | |
October 17th, 1970 (October 17 1970) | Death | Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (born in 1921) | |
October 17th, 1970 (October 17 1970) | Death | Vola Vale, American actress (born in 1897) | |
October 17th, 1969 (October 17 1969) | Birth | Wood Harris, American actor | |
October 17th, 1969 (October 17 1969) | Birth | Ernie Els, South African golfer | |
October 17th, 1969 (October 17 1969) | Birth | Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian | |
October 17th, 1968 (October 17 1968) | Birth | Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician | |
October 17th, 1967 (October 17 1967) | Birth | Rene Dif, Danish musician (Aqua) | |
October 17th, 1967 (October 17 1967) | Death | Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (born in 1906) | |
October 17th, 1966 (October 17 1966) | Event | 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. | |
October 17th, 1966 (October 17 1966) | Birth | Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer | |
October 17th, 1966 (October 17 1966) | Birth | Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and television personality | |
October 17th, 1966 (October 17 1966) | Death | Wieland Wagner, German stage director (born in 1917) | |
October 17th, 1965 (October 17 1965) | Event | 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. | |
October 17th, 1965 (October 17 1965) | Birth | Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer | |
October 17th, 1965 (October 17 1965) | Death | John Barton King, Philadelphian cricketer (born in 1873) | |
October 17th, 1963 (October 17 1963) | Birth | Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer | |
October 17th, 1963 (October 17 1963) | Birth | Norm MacDonald, Canadian comedian | |
October 17th, 1963 (October 17 1963) | Death | Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (born in 1865) | |
October 17th, 1962 (October 17 1962) | Birth | Mike Judge, Ecuadoran-born cartoonist | |
October 17th, 1962 (October 17 1962) | Death | Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (born in 1882) | |
October 17th, 1961 (October 17 1961) | Event | 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. | |
October 17th, 1960 (October 17 1960) | Birth | Rob Marshall, American director | |
October 17th, 1960 (October 17 1960) | Birth | Guy Henry, English actor | |
October 17th, 1959 (October 17 1959) | Birth | Ron Drummond, American writer | |
October 17th, 1959 (October 17 1959) | Birth | Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic | |
October 17th, 1959 (October 17 1959) | Birth | Richard Roeper, American film critic | |
October 17th, 1959 (October 17 1959) | Birth | Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian | |
October 17th, 1958 (October 17 1958) | Birth | Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter | |
October 17th, 1958 (October 17 1958) | Death | Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (born in 1876) | |
October 17th, 1958 (October 17 1958) | Death | Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (born in 1896) | |
October 17th, 1957 (October 17 1957) | Birth | Lawrence Bender, American film producer | |
October 17th, 1957 (October 17 1957) | Birth | Steve McMichael, American football player | |
October 17th, 1956 (October 17 1956) | Birth | Mae Jemison, American astronaut | |
October 17th, 1956 (October 17 1956) | Birth | Patrick McCrory, American politician | |
October 17th, 1956 (October 17 1956) | Death | Anne Crawford, British film actor (born in 1920) | |
October 17th, 1955 (October 17 1955) | Birth | Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek politician | |
October 17th, 1950 (October 17 1950) | Birth | Howard Rollins, American actor (died in 1996) | |
October 17th, 1948 (October 17 1948) | Birth | Margot Kidder, Canadian actress | |
October 17th, 1948 (October 17 1948) | Birth | George Wendt, American actor | |
October 17th, 1948 (October 17 1948) | Birth | Robert Jordan, American novelist (died in 2007) | |
October 17th, 1947 (October 17 1947) | Birth | Gene Green, American politician | |
October 17th, 1947 (October 17 1947) | Birth | Michael McKean, American actor | |
October 17th, 1946 (October 17 1946) | Birth | Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British stage producer | |
October 17th, 1946 (October 17 1946) | Birth | Adam Michnik, Polish activist | |
October 17th, 1946 (October 17 1946) | Birth | Bob Seagren, American athlete | |
October 17th, 1946 (October 17 1946) | Birth | Michael Hossack, American musician (The Doobie Brothers) | |
October 17th, 1945 (October 17 1945) | Event | A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron s release. This is known to the Peronists as the Dia de la lealtad (day of loyalty). It s considered the birthday of Peronism. | |
October 17th, 1943 (October 17 1943) | Death | Stefan Starzynski, Polish politician (born in 1893) | |
October 17th, 1942 (October 17 1942) | Birth | Gary Puckett, American musician | |
October 17th, 1941 (October 17 1941) | Event | For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. | |
October 17th, 1941 (October 17 1941) | Birth | Earl Thomas Conley, American singer | |
October 17th, 1941 (October 17 1941) | Birth | Jim Seals American singer (Seals and Crofts) | |
October 17th, 1940 (October 17 1940) | Birth | Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner | |
October 17th, 1940 (October 17 1940) | Birth | Jim Smith, English footballer and manager | |
October 17th, 1938 (October 17 1938) | Birth | Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (died in 2007) | |
October 17th, 1938 (October 17 1938) | Death | Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (born in 1854) | Karl Marx Quotes |
October 17th, 1937 (October 17 1937) | Birth | Paxton Whitehead, English actor | |
October 17th, 1936 (October 17 1936) | Birth | Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist | |
October 17th, 1934 (October 17 1934) | Birth | Johnny Haynes, English footballer (died in 2005) | |
October 17th, 1934 (October 17 1934) | Death | Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1852) | |
October 17th, 1933 (October 17 1933) | Event | Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US. | Albert Einstein Quotes |
October 17th, 1933 (October 17 1933) | Birth | Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (died in 1985) | |
October 17th, 1931 (October 17 1931) | Event | Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion. | Al Capone Quotes |
October 17th, 1931 (October 17 1931) | Birth | Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer | |
October 17th, 1931 (October 17 1931) | Death | Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (born in 1884) | |
October 17th, 1930 (October 17 1930) | Birth | Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (died in 2003) | |
October 17th, 1930 (October 17 1930) | Birth | Jimmy Breslin, American newspaper columnist and author | |
October 17th, 1926 (October 17 1926) | Birth | Julie Adams, American film actress | |
October 17th, 1925 (October 17 1925) | Birth | Harry Carpenter, English sports commentator | |
October 17th, 1923 (October 17 1923) | Birth | Charles McClendon, American football coach (died in 2001) | |
October 17th, 1923 (October 17 1923) | Birth | Barney Kessel, American musician (died in 2004) | |
October 17th, 1922 (October 17 1922) | Birth | Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive | |
October 17th, 1922 (October 17 1922) | Birth | Luiz Bonfa, Brazilian composer (died in 2001) | |
October 17th, 1921 (October 17 1921) | Birth | Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (died in 2007) | |
October 17th, 1921 (October 17 1921) | Birth | Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (died in 2001) | |
October 17th, 1920 (October 17 1920) | Birth | Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer | |
October 17th, 1920 (October 17 1920) | Birth | Montgomery Clift, American actor (died in 1966) | |
October 17th, 1919 (October 17 1919) | Birth | Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist | |
October 17th, 1918 (October 17 1918) | Birth | Rita Hayworth, American actress (died in 1987) | |
October 17th, 1917 (October 17 1917) | Event | First British bombing of Germany in World War I. | |
October 17th, 1917 (October 17 1917) | Birth | Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (died in 1991) | |
October 17th, 1915 (October 17 1915) | Birth | Arthur Miller, American playwright (died in 2005) | Arthur Miller Quotes |
October 17th, 1914 (October 17 1914) | Birth | Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (died in 1996) | Jerry Siegel Quotes |
October 17th, 1912 (October 17 1912) | Event | Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. | |
October 17th, 1912 (October 17 1912) | Birth | Pope John Paul I (died in 1978) | |
October 17th, 1912 (October 17 1912) | Birth | Jack Owens, The Cruising Crooner, American singer/songwriter (died in 1982) | |
October 17th, 1910 (October 17 1910) | Death | Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (born in 1819) | Julia Ward Howe Quotes |
October 17th, 1908 (October 17 1908) | Birth | Red Rolfe, American baseball player (died in 1969) | |
October 17th, 1907 (October 17 1907) | Event | Guglielmo Marconi s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. | Guglielmo Marconi Quotes |
October 17th, 1906 (October 17 1906) | Birth | Paul Derringer, American baseball player (died in 1987) | |
October 17th, 1903 (October 17 1903) | Birth | Nathanael West, American writer (died in 1940) | |
October 17th, 1902 (October 17 1902) | Birth | Irene Ryan, American actress (died in 1973) | |
October 17th, 1900 (October 17 1900) | Birth | Jean Arthur, American actress (died in 1991) | |
October 17th, 1898 (October 17 1898) | Birth | Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (died in 1998) | |
October 17th, 1898 (October 17 1898) | Birth | Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (died in 1971) | |
October 17th, 1892 (October 17 1892) | Birth | Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (died in 1943) | |
October 17th, 1892 (October 17 1892) | Birth | Herbert Howells, English Composer (died in 1983) | |
October 17th, 1890 (October 17 1890) | Birth | Roy Kilner, English cricketer (died in 1928) | |
October 17th, 1889 (October 17 1889) | Death | Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (born in 1828) | Philo Quotes |
October 17th, 1888 (October 17 1888) | Event | Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). | |
October 17th, 1887 (October 17 1887) | Death | Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (born in 1824) | |
October 17th, 1886 (October 17 1886) | Birth | Spring Byington, American actress (died in 1971) | |
October 17th, 1868 (October 17 1868) | Death | Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (born in 1775) | |
October 17th, 1865 (October 17 1865) | Birth | James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (died in 1950) | |
October 17th, 1864 (October 17 1864) | Birth | Elinor Glyn, British writer (died in 1943) | Elinor Glyn Quotes |
October 17th, 1860 (October 17 1860) | Event | First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). | |
October 17th, 1853 (October 17 1853) | Birth | Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (died in 1920) | |
October 17th, 1849 (October 17 1849) | Death | Frederic Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (born in 1810) | |
October 17th, 1837 (October 17 1837) | Death | Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer (born in 1778) | |
October 17th, 1836 (October 17 1836) | Death | Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (born in 1782) | |
October 17th, 1817 (October 17 1817) | Birth | Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (died in 1898) | |
October 17th, 1813 (October 17 1813) | Birth | Georg Buchner, German playwright (died in 1837) | |
October 17th, 1811 (October 17 1811) | Birth | Albertus van Raalte, Dutch/American religious leader (died in 1876) | |
October 17th, 1806 (October 17 1806) | Event | Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule. | |
October 17th, 1806 (October 17 1806) | Death | Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (born in 1758) | |
October 17th, 1800 (October 17 1800) | Event | England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curacao. | Cao Cao Quotes |
October 17th, 1797 (October 17 1797) | Event | Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria. | |
October 17th, 1786 (October 17 1786) | Death | Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (born in 1723) | |
October 17th, 1781 (October 17 1781) | Event | General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionists at Yorktown, Virginia. | |
October 17th, 1780 (October 17 1780) | Death | William Cookworthy, English chemist (born in 1705) | |
October 17th, 1777 (October 17 1777) | Event | American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga. | |
October 17th, 1776 (October 17 1776) | Death | Pierre Francois le Courayer, French theologian (born in 1681) | |
October 17th, 1757 (October 17 1757) | Death | Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, French scientist (born in 1683) | |
October 17th, 1719 (October 17 1719) | Birth | Jacques Cazotte, French writer (died in 1792) | |
October 17th, 1711 (October 17 1711) | Birth | Jupiter Hammon, American writer | |
October 17th, 1688 (October 17 1688) | Birth | Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (died in 1726) | |
October 17th, 1673 (October 17 1673) | Death | Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (born in 1630) | |
October 17th, 1662 (October 17 1662) | Event | Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds. | |
October 17th, 1660 (October 17 1660) | Event | Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged. | |
October 17th, 1660 (October 17 1660) | Death | Adrian Scrope, English regicide (born in 1601) | |
October 17th, 1623 (October 17 1623) | Birth | Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (died in 1687) | |
October 17th, 1616 (October 17 1616) | Death | John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (born in 1560) | |
October 17th, 1610 (October 17 1610) | Event | French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims. | |
October 17th, 1604 (October 17 1604) | Event | Kepler s Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation. Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. | |
October 17th, 1586 (October 17 1586) | Death | Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (born in 1554) | Philip Sidney Quotes |
October 17th, 1582 (October 17 1582) | Birth | Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (died in 1637) | |
October 17th, 1577 (October 17 1577) | Birth | Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (died in 1621) | |
October 17th, 1563 (October 17 1563) | Birth | Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (died in 1611) | |
October 17th, 1456 (October 17 1456) | Event | 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) | |
October 17th, 1448 (October 17 1448) | Event | Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. | |
October 17th, 1346 (October 17 1346) | Event | Battle of Neville s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. | |
October 17th, 1253 (October 17 1253) | Birth | Ivo of Kermartin, French saint (died in 1303) | |
October 17th, 1244 (October 17 1244) | Event | Battle of La Forbie: Crusaders are defeated by Khwarezmians and Egyptians. | |
October 17th, 1174 (October 17 1174) | Death | Queen Petronila of Aragon (born in 1135) | |
October 17th, 1091 (October 17 1091) | Event | T8/F4 tornado strikes the heart of London. | |
October 17th, 0539 (October 17 0539) | Event | King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration. | |
October 17th, 0532 (October 17 0532) | Death | Pope Boniface II | |