Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 17
This is a list of selected October 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Failed Cypress structure caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake -
Emperor Jacques I of Haiti
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Day for the Eradication of Poverty | stub |
| 1346 – King David II of Scotland, under the terms of the Auld Alliance with France, led an invasion of England during the Hundred Years' War, but was captured in the Battle of Neville's Cross. | needs more footnotes |
| 1448 – Ottoman wars in Europe: The Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi engaged an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. | refimprove |
| 1456 – The University of Greifswald in present-day Greifswald, Germany, was founded with the approval of the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope. | unreferenced sections |
| 1604 – German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally bright star, later named Kepler's Star, which had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus. | too short |
| 1662 – King Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France for £40,000. | Tagged with {{expand}} |
| 1806 – Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated near Port-au-Prince. | needs more footnotes |
| 1860 – The Open Championship, the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf, was first played at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – In Paris, the French police under the Prefect of Police Maurice Papon attacked a peaceful but illegal demonstration of some 30,000 opposed to the Algerian War, killing somewhere between 40 and 200 people. | {{ibid}} |
| 1973 – The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries began an oil embargo against a number of western countries, whom they believed were helping Israel in the Yom Kippur War. | Tagged with {{unreferenced}} |
| 1977 – German Autumn: Four days after it was hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 landed in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos rescued all remaining hostages on board. | Tagged for cleanup |
Eligible
October 17: Dessalines Day in Haiti (1806)
- 1931 – American gangster Al Capone (pictured) was convicted on five counts of income tax evasion.
- 1956 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, England.
- 1964 – Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opened the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
- 1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake struck California's San Francisco Bay Area, killing 63 people, injuring 3,757, and leaving at least 8,000 homeless.
- 2010 – Mary MacKillop was canonised to become the only Australian to date to be recognised by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.