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10-17-2010, 03:16 AM
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This Date in History - October 17th
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* 539 BC 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.
* 1091 T8/F4 tornado strikes the heart of London.
* 1346 Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
* 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.
* 1660 Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
* 1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
* 1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
* 1777 American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga.
* 1781 General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionists at Yorktown, Virginia.
* 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
* 1800 Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaηao.
* 1806 Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
* 1814 London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
* 1860 First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
* 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
* 1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
* 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
* 1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
* 1931 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
* 1933 Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the U.S..
* 1941 For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
* 1941 German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece and burn the houses down.
* 1943 Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
* 1945 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 Dνa de la lealtad (Loyalty Day). It's considered the founding day of Peronism.
* 1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
* 1961 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.
* 1964 Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
* 1965 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.
* 1966 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.
* 1966 Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
* 1968 Black American athletes make a silent protest against racism at the Olympics
* 1970 Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
* 1973 OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
* 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.
* 1979 Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 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.
* 1980 As part of the Holy See United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
* 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).
* 1998 At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
* 2000 Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
* 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 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.
* 2006 The United States population reaches 300 million.
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This Date in History - October 17th
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* 539 BC 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.
* 1091 T8/F4 tornado strikes the heart of London.
* 1346 Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
* 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.
* 1660 Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
* 1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
* 1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
* 1777 American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga.
* 1781 General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionists at Yorktown, Virginia.
* 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
* 1800 Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaηao.
* 1806 Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
* 1814 London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
* 1860 First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
* 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
* 1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
* 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
* 1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
* 1931 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
* 1933 Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the U.S..
* 1941 For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
* 1941 German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece and burn the houses down.
* 1943 Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
* 1945 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 Dνa de la lealtad (Loyalty Day). It's considered the founding day of Peronism.
* 1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
* 1961 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.
* 1964 Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
* 1965 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.
* 1966 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.
* 1966 Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
* 1968 Black American athletes make a silent protest against racism at the Olympics
* 1970 Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
* 1973 OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
* 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.
* 1979 Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 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.
* 1980 As part of the Holy See United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
* 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).
* 1998 At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
* 2000 Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
* 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 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.
* 2006 The United States population reaches 300 million.
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