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On this day - October 17
690 — Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.
1091 — London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength ...
1346 — The English capture King David II of Scotland at ...
1448 — An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle ...
1456 — The University of Greifswald is established as the second ...
1534 — Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities ...
1558 — Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
1604 — Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of ...
1610 — French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
1660 — The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I ...
1662 — Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for ...
1713 — Great Northern War: Russia defeats Sweden in the Battle of ...
1771 — Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by ...
1777 — American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne ...
1781 — American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl ...
1797 — Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria, ...
1800 — War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the ...
1806 — Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is ...
1811 — The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile ...
1814 — Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
1850 — Riots start, which lead to a massacre in Aleppo.
1860 — First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as ...
1861 — Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the ...
1907 — Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless ...
1912 — Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, ...
1919 — Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the ...
1931 — Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 — Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United ...
1940 — The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found ...
1941 — World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy ...
1943 — Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
1943 — The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
1945 — A large demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan ...
1952 — Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace ...
1956 — The first commercial nuclear power station is officially ...
1961 — The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.
1961 — Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre ...
1965 — The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years ...
1966 — The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
1969 — The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. ...
1970 — FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of ...
1973 — OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to ...
1977 — The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The ...
1979 — The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. ...
1979 — Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1980 — As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British ...
1988 — Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino ...
1989 — The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from ...
1989 — The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay ...
1991 — Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, ...
1992 — Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro ...
1994 — Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while ...
2000 — The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
2001 — Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated ...
2004 — A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of ...
2017 — Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture ...
2018 — A mass shooting and bombing at Kerch Polytechnic College in ...
2018 — The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
2019 — The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.
2019 — Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government ...
2023 — An explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza kills hundreds ...