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Events on the 17th of October in history

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17 Oct 0456 Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats the Roman usurper Avitus near Piacenza (Northern Italy) .
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17 Oct 0532 Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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17 Oct 0539 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.
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17 Oct 0733 Battle at Poitiers: Charles Martel beats Abd al-Rachmans Omajjaden
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17 Oct 1091 London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
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17 Oct 1346 Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by the English near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
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17 Oct 1387 Swells convent Windesheim initiated
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17 Oct 1415 Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office
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17 Oct 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.
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17 Oct 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).
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17 Oct 1483 Tomas de Torquemada appointed Inquisitor-General of Spain
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17 Oct 1492 Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)
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17 Oct 1556 Ex-Emperor Karel departs Netherlands for Spain
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17 Oct 1558 Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
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17 Oct 1604 Kepler's Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
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17 Oct 1610 French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
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17 Oct 1651 Future King Charles II flees from England
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17 Oct 1660 Nine regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
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17 Oct 1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
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17 Oct 1691 New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
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17 Oct 1707 German Composer Johann S Bach marries his niece Maria Bach
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17 Oct 1740 Ivan VI becomes Czar of Russia
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17 Oct 1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, age 15.
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17 Oct 1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, New York
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17 Oct 1777 American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
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17 Oct 1781 American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
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17 Oct 1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
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17 Oct 1787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
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17 Oct 1797 Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France
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17 Oct 1800 Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England
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17 Oct 1800 Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
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17 Oct 1806 Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
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17 Oct 1808 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
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17 Oct 1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
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17 Oct 1815 Napoleon arrives in St. Helena
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17 Oct 1825 1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris
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17 Oct 1829 German 1st assassination on abandoned teenager Kaspar Hauser
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17 Oct 1829 Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opened
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17 Oct 1850 Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
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17 Oct 1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented
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17 Oct 1860 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club
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17 Oct 1860 First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
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17 Oct 1860 1st pro golf tournament held (Scotland) (Willie Park wins)
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17 Oct 1861 Nineteen people are killed in the Cullin-La-Ringo massacre, the deadliest massacre of Europeans by aborigines in Australian history.
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17 Oct 1862 Battle of Leetown and Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
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17 Oct 1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
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17 Oct 1871 Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa
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17 Oct 1871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
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17 Oct 1877 Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa
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17 Oct 1885 Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season
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17 Oct 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
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17 Oct 1894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
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17 Oct 1896 Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka, " premieres in St. Petersburg
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17 Oct 1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
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17 Oct 1904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors
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17 Oct 1905 The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
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17 Oct 1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
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17 Oct 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declares war on Turkey
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17 Oct 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
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17 Oct 1916 Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage
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17 Oct 1917 1st British bombing of Germany
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17 Oct 1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
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17 Oct 1918 De Kooy airport in the Netherlands opens
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17 Oct 1918 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
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17 Oct 1919 RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
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17 Oct 1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
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17 Oct 1920 Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
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17 Oct 1922 Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
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17 Oct 1923 Catholic University of Nijmegen Netherlands opens
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17 Oct 1927 Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL President
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17 Oct 1931 Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
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17 Oct 1931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
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17 Oct 1933 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
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17 Oct 1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
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17 Oct 1934 "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
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17 Oct 1934 "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
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17 Oct 1935 Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics
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17 Oct 1940 German occupiers issue identity cards
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17 Oct 1941 World War II: a German submarine attacks an American ship for the first time in the war.
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17 Oct 1941 German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
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17 Oct 1941 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland
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17 Oct 1943 Liberators sink U-540 and U-631
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17 Oct 1943 The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
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17 Oct 1943 The Holocaust: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
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17 Oct 1945 A massive number of people, headed by CGT, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina to demand Juan Perón's release. It calls "el día de la lealtad peronista" (peronista loyalty day)
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17 Oct 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.
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17 Oct 1945 Juan Per
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17 Oct 1951 Egyptian army fires on British troops
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17 Oct 1954 Philadelphia Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Washington (49-21)
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17 Oct 1955 Lee Merriwether joins the Today Show panel
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17 Oct 1956 Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt
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17 Oct 1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
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17 Oct 1956 Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.
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17 Oct 1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
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17 Oct 1957 "Copper & Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
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17 Oct 1957 Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed
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17 Oct 1957 II Tsjoendrigar becomes Premier of Pakistan
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17 Oct 1957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House
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17 Oct 1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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17 Oct 1959 "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 performances
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17 Oct 1959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
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17 Oct 1960 "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 216 performances
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17 Oct 1960 US and Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases
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17 Oct 1961 22nd Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
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17 Oct 1961 Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians
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17 Oct 1961 Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
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17 Oct 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
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17 Oct 1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
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17 Oct 1962 Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
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17 Oct 1963 "Jennie" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 82 performances
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17 Oct 1964 Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
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17 Oct 1964 Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
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17 Oct 1965 "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in NYC for 280 performances
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17 Oct 1965 WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Oct 1965 The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after a two-year run. More than 51 million people had attended the event.
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17 Oct 1966 A fire at a building in New York City kills 12 firefighters, the fire department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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17 Oct 1966 Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
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17 Oct 1967 "Hair" premieres on Broadway
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17 Oct 1967 Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS
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17 Oct 1967 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
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17 Oct 1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
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17 Oct 1967 The play "Hair" is 1st performed
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17 Oct 1969 New York Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead, New York
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17 Oct 1969 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
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17 Oct 1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
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17 Oct 1970 Anwar Sadat sworn in as President of Egypt
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17 Oct 1970 Montreal: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
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17 Oct 1971 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Quality-First Golf Classic
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17 Oct 1972 1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins
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17 Oct 1973 Arabs decrease oil production
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17 Oct 1973 OPEC imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.
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17 Oct 1973 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins
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17 Oct 1974 NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
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17 Oct 1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3
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17 Oct 1974 Oakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series, makes A's the only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series
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17 Oct 1975 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Mississippi
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17 Oct 1975 Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely
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17 Oct 1975 UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"
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17 Oct 1977 German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.
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17 Oct 1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
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17 Oct 1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of the 4 hijackers
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17 Oct 1978 New York Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
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17 Oct 1978 New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series
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17 Oct 1978 President Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
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17 Oct 1978 Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
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17 Oct 1979 "Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 performances
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17 Oct 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series
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17 Oct 1979 President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
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17 Oct 1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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17 Oct 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.
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17 Oct 1979 D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8
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17 Oct 1980 1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW vs. Queensland (2-52 & 1-39)
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17 Oct 1980 As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
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17 Oct 1982 1st live orchestra on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony)
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17 Oct 1982 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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17 Oct 1982 Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series
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17 Oct 1983 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu
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17 Oct 1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem
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17 Oct 1984 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
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17 Oct 1985 French Author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
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17 Oct 1985 Lou Piniella named New York Yankee manager
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17 Oct 1986 Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government
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17 Oct 1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
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17 Oct 1987 "Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances
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17 Oct 1987 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome)
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17 Oct 1987 1st lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
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17 Oct 1987 1st World Series game in a covered stadium (Minnesota Metrodome) (World Series #84)
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17 Oct 1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
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17 Oct 1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of the NY Yankees
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17 Oct 1988 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
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17 Oct 1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
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17 Oct 1988 Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF women's title
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17 Oct 1988 Traveling Wilbury's 1st release "Handle With Care"
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17 Oct 1989 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
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17 Oct 1989 Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of 86th World Series - kills 67
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17 Oct 1990 "Jackie Mason - Brand New" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 performances
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17 Oct 1991 Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races
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17 Oct 1991 Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates for NL pennant in 7 games
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17 Oct 1991 Pittsburgh Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals & 744 assists)
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17 Oct 1991 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby
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17 Oct 1992 1st World Series with non-US team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves
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17 Oct 1992 Having gone to the wrong house for a Halloween party, Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori is shot and killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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17 Oct 1994 Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
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17 Oct 1995 Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
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17 Oct 1996 "Taking Sides, " opens at Atkinson Theater, New York City
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17 Oct 2000 Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
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17 Oct 2001 Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
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17 Oct 2003 The pinnacle is 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 56 metres (184 ft) and become the world's tallest highrise.
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