Page 7: Historical Events In October - 17

1981  David Guion, composer, dies at 88.   

1982  The outlawing of the 'Solidarity' labour movement leads to widespread strikes and demonstrations in Poland   

1982  Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist, dies at 47.   

1983  Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78   

1984  Alberta Hunter, US blues singer/composer, dies at 89.   

1986  US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens and offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982   

1987  inaugural World Series game in a covered stadium in Minnesota Metrodome   

1988  31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome.   

1988  Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft.   

1988  Scottish scientist James Black awarded the Nobel prize for his work on treating angina and blood pressure.   

1989  Earthquake in SF (6.9) results in the deaths of 67.   

1990  Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64   

1991  J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84.   

1992  Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies.   

1993  Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77.   

1994  Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83.   

1995  Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment is declared the oldest living person, with a proven age of 120 years and 238 days   

1995  Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66.   

1996  Berthold Goldschmidt, composer/conductor, dies at 93   

1997  Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54   

1998  A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. At least 700 die   

1999  Former US nurse Orville Lynn Majors is convicted of murdering six patients at a western Indiana hospital; the jury deadlocked on a seventh count. (Majors is serving a 360-year prison sentence.)   

2000  Pope John Paul and Britain's Queen Elizabeth meet and speak of their hopes for Christian unity. It is her inaugural visit to the Vatican in 20 years.   

2005  Jens Stoltenberg is recorded as becoming the Prime Minister of Norway for the second time   

2006  The United States population reaches 300 million based on a United States Census Bureau projection   

2007  Whitehaven, England is recorded as becoming the inaugural place in the United Kingdom to have one of its analogue terrestrial television signals switched off as part of digital switchover   

2012  The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri.   

2013  59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq.   

2017  Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting.   

2017  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares city of Marawi "liberated" from militants.   

2017  In this year, American short-story writer George Saunders claims the Man Booker Prize for his inaugural novel "Lincoln in the Bardo"   

2017  Syrian Civil War: Raqqa is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant   

2018  India's junior foreign minister MJ Akbar is highest official to resign in #MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women   

2018  Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney leaves "Sesame Street" after 50 years.   

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1253  Ivo of Kermartin, ]]) was born on October - 17.   

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

1577  On this day in history birth of cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)   

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

1623  On October - 17 birth of francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)   

1626  Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt) was born on this day in history.   

1688  Domenico Zipoli, composer was born on October - 17.   

1696  August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen was born on this day in history.   

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

1174  Death of Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135) on this day in history.   

1312  On October - 17 jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies   

1552  On this day in history andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53   

1586  Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 on October - 17.   

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

1638  Death of Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63 on October - 17.   

1660  On this day in history death of adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)