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17 October in History

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PAKISTAN · BORN ON THIS DAY1980

Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer, was born.

46 years agoVerify on Wikipedia ↗
  • Died1998 Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (born 1920) Wikipedia ↗

Events

  • 2023 An explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza kills hundreds of Palestinians during the Gaza war. Wikipedia ↗
  • 2019 Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest. Wikipedia ↗
  • 2019 The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon. Wikipedia ↗
  • 2018 The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada. Wikipedia ↗
  • 2018 A mass shooting and bombing at Kerch Polytechnic College in Crimea kills 21 people including the attacker and injures 70 others. Wikipedia ↗
  • 2017 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa. Wikipedia ↗
  • 2004 A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of the East Tower of the Parque Central Urban Complex in Caracas, Venezuela. Wikipedia ↗
  • 2001 Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by Hamdi Quran, a member of the PFLP, thus becoming the highest-ranking Israeli to be killed by a Palestinian. Wikipedia ↗
  • 2000 The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1994 Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. Wikipedia ↗
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  • 1992 Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1989 The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1989 The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1988 Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1980 As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1979 The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1977 The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1975 'Salem's Lot, an American vampire novel by Stephen King, is published. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1973 OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1970 FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1969 The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1966 The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1965 The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1961 Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1961 The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1952 Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1945 A large demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1943 The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1943 Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1941 World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1940 The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1933 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1931 Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1919 Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I Wikipedia ↗
  • 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1907 Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1861 Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1860 First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). Wikipedia ↗
  • 1850 Riots start, which lead to a massacre in Aleppo. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1811 The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1806 Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1800 War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria, ending the War of the First Coalition. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1781 American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1777 American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1713 Great Northern War: Russia defeats Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1660 The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1610 French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1604 Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1558 Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1534 Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1456 The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1448 The second Battle of Kosovo begins between Hungarian forces under John Hunyadi and Ottoman forces under Murad II. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1346 The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1173 English Crown forces under Richard de Lucy defeat rebels under Robert de Beaumont in the battle of Fornham. Wikipedia ↗
  • 1091 London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. Wikipedia ↗
  • 690 Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China. Wikipedia ↗

Born on this day

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Died on this day

  • 1998 Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (born 1920) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2024 Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1931) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2024 Toshiyuki Nishida, Japanese actor (born 1947) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2024 Andrew Schally, Polish-American endocrinologist (born 1926) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2019 Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (born 1951) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2017 Gord Downie, Canadian musician (born 1964) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2015 Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (born 1926) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2015 Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (born 1946) Wikipedia ↗
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  • 2015 Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (born 1949) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2015 Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (born 1947) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2014 Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (born 1937) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2014 Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (born 1943) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2014 Tom Shaw, American bishop (born 1945) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2014 Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (born 1919) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2013 Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (born 1926) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2013 Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (born 1944) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2013 Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (born 1926) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2013 Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (born 1928) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2013 Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (born 1966) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2012 Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (born 1951) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2012 Émile Allais, French skier (born 1912) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2012 Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (born 1930) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2012 Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (born 1922) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2012 Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1936) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2011 Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (born 1919) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2009 Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (born 1931) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2009 Vic Mizzy, American composer (born 1916) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2008 Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (born 1955) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2008 Levi Stubbs, American singer (born 1936) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2008 Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (born 1923) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2007 Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (born 1918) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2007 Teresa Brewer, American singer (born 1931) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2007 Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (born 1939) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2006 Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (born 1924) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2006 Christopher Glenn, American journalist (born 1938) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2004 Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (born 1952) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2002 Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (born 1935) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2001 Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (born 1915) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2001 Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (born 1922) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2001 Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (born 1926) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2000 Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (born 1924) Wikipedia ↗
  • 2000 Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (born 1964) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1999 Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (born 1915) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1998 Joan Hickson, English actress (born 1906) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1997 Larry Jennings, American magician and author (born 1933) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1996 Chris Acland, English musician and drummer of Lush (born 1966) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1993 Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1963) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1992 Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (born 1912) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1992 Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (born 1919) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1987 Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (born 1925) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (born 1905) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1981 Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (born 1927) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1981 Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (born 1895) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1981 Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (born 1887) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1979 S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (born 1904) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1979 John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (born 1898) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1979 Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (born 1909) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1978 George Clark, American race car driver (born 1890) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1978 Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (born 1887) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1973 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (born 1926) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1972 Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1914) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1972 George, Crown Prince of Serbia (born 1887) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1970 Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1921) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1970 Vola Vale, American actress (born 1897) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1970 Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (born 1890) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1967 Puyi, Chinese emperor (born 1906) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1966 Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (born 1883) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1966 Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (born 1917) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1965 Bart King, American cricketer (born 1873) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (born 1865) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1962 Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (born 1882) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1958 Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (born 1896) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1958 Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (born 1876) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1957 Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (born 1884) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1956 Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (born 1920) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1955 Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (born 1873) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1948 Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (born 1869) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1938 Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (born 1854) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1937 J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (born 1862) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1931 Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (born 1884) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1928 Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (born 1853) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1920 Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican) died on Hunger Strike (born 1881) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1918 Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (born 1886) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1910 Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (born 1819) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1910 Kurd Lasswitz, author and physician (born 1848) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1893 Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (born 1808) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1889 Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1828) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1887 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (born 1824) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1868 Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (born 1775) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1849 Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (born 1810) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (born 1778) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1836 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (born 1782) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1806 Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (born 1758) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1786 Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1723) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1781 Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (born 1705) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1780 William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (born 1705) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1776 Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (born 1681) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1757 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (born 1683) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1696 Geoffrey Shakerley (1619–1696), English politician (born 1619) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1690 Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (born 1647) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1673 Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (born 1630) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1660 Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (born 1601) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1616 John Pitts, English priest and scholar (born 1560) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1587 Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1541) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1586 Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (born 1554) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1575 Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (born 1511) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1552 Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (born 1498) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1528 Hernando Alonso, Spanish conquistador, first Jew executed in the New World Wikipedia ↗
  • 1485 John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports Wikipedia ↗
  • 1456 Nicolas Grenon, French composer (born 1375) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1346 John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray Wikipedia ↗
  • 1346 Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn Wikipedia ↗
  • 1277 Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (born c. 1254) Wikipedia ↗
  • 1271 Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet Wikipedia ↗
  • 866 Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (born 836) Wikipedia ↗
  • 532 Pope Boniface II Wikipedia ↗
  • 33 Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (born 14 BC) Wikipedia ↗

Holidays & observances

Christian feast day: AnstrudisChristian feast day: CatervusChristian feast day: Ethelred and EthelberhtChristian feast day: Florentius of OrangeChristian feast day: François-Isidore Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)Christian feast day: HoseaChristian feast day: Ignatius of AntiochChristian feast day: John the Short (John Colobus)Christian feast day: John of EgyptChristian feast day: Marguerite Marie Alacoque (pre-1969 calendar, Visitadines)Christian feast day: NothhelmChristian feast day: Rule of AndrewChristian feast day: Richard GwynChristian feast day: October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)International Day for the Eradication of PovertyLoyalty Day (Argentina)National Police Day (Thailand)National Heroes Day (Somaliland)

Events, births, deaths and observances: Wikipedia, “October 17”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0. Pakistan entries reviewed by Newsora24. Updated 12 Oct 2026.