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October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in Leap years). There are 75 days remaining.

Births:

1563?: [Jodocus Hondius]?, cartographer
1711: [Jupiter Hammond]?, poet
1782: Niccolò Paganini, violin player and composer
1898: [Simon Vestdijk]?, writer
1918: [Rita Hayworth]?, actress
1968: [Ziggy Marley]?, reggae musician

Deaths:

Events:

1469: [Ferdinand of Aragon]? marries [Isabella of Castile]?. Their marriage leads to a unification of Aragon? and Castile? in a single country, Spain.
1492: Christopher Columbus first sees land in the [New World]?, an unknown Bahaman island he calls San Salvador.
1777: American troops defeat the British in Saratoga?, New York
1800: England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao?.
1815: Napoleon arrives at Saint Helena.
1860: First British golf open.
1912: Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on Turkey, joining Montenegro in the [First Balkan War]?.
1917: First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
1918: Yugoslavia declared a republic.
1931: [Al Capone]? convicted for [income tax]? evasion?.
1933: Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US.
1941: For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
1945: After a coup, [Juan Peron]? becomes dictator of Argentina.
1961: 200 Algerian protesters are massacred by the Paris police.
1967: Premiere of the musical Hair at Broadway.
1970: [Anwar Sadat]? becomes president of Egypt.
1973: The OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria. Beginning of the [oil crisis]?.
1977: West German commandos storm and capture a hijacked plane in Mogadishu?, Somalia.
1979: The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to [Mother Theresa]?.
1989: A major earthquake (7.1 on [the Richter scale]?) hit the San Francisco Bay Area at 5:04pm for 20 seconds. The epicenter? was at [Loma Prieta]?. The aftermath was extensively televised.
1994: Draft peace treaty between Israel and Jordan.
1994: Peace treaty between the government of Angola and UNITA? rebels.

Holidays:

United States: Black Poetry Day (1711)
Alaska: Alaska Day (1867)

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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