Page 6: Historical Events In October - 17

1957  John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70   

1958  C L Townsend, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1899), dies   

1959  Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse.   

1959  "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 perfs   

1960  "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances   

1961  NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33100 m   

1961  NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, It wasn't corrected until December 3rd.   

1961  22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow   

1962  Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship   

1963  "Jennie" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 82 performances   

1963  Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97   

1964  Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra.   

1965  "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in NYC for 280 perfs   

1965  Barton King, cricketer (America's greatest cricket all-rounder), dies.   

1966  Soledad Jiminez, Spanish actor (Phantom ofthe Range), dies at 91   

1967  Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km   

1967  The Broadway play "Hair" is inaugural performed   

1967  "Hair" premieres on Broadway   

1967  Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China, dies at 61.   

1969  Soyuz 7 returns to Earth   

1969  NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY   

1973  5 month oil embargo by Arab states against US and Netherlands begins   

1973  Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47   

1974  René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57.   

1975  Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto), dies at 90   

1977  Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament   

1977  West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of the 4 hijackers.   

1977  Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, US baseball player/umpire, dies at 77   

1979  1800 Marines landed in Guantanamo Bay as a demonstration of naval power in the wake of the Soviet refusal to withdraw the Russian combat brigade in Cuba.   

1979  D Bautista of Mexico completes 20000 m walk in record 1 20 06.8.   

1979  Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.   

1979  John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81   

1979  D Bautista of Mexico completes 20000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8   

1980  Mount St Helens, in Washington State USA, erupts for the third time in 24 hours.   

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1253  On October - 17 birth of ivo of Kermartin, ]])   

1563  Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer was born on October - 17.   

1577  On October - 17 birth of cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)   

1582  On this day in history birth of johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)   

1623  On this day in history birth of francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)   

1626  On October - 17 birth of simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)   

1688  On this day in history birth of domenico Zipoli, composer   

1696  On October - 17 birth of august III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen   

0532  Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies on October - 17.   

1174  On this day in history death of queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)   

1312  On this day in history jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies   

1552  On October - 17 andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53   

1586  On this day in history philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32   

1616  On this day in history death of john Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)   

1638  On this day in history death of gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63   

1660  Death of Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601) on October - 17.