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1981 On this day in history david Guion, composer, dies at 88 
1982 The outlawing of the 'Solidarity' labour movement causes widespread strikes and demonstrations in Poland on this day in history.
1982 Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist, dies at 47 on this day in history.
1983 On October - 17 raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78
1984 Alberta Hunter, US blues singer/composer, dies at 89 on this day in history.
1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982 on October - 17.
1987 First World Series game in a covered stadium in Minnesota Metrodome on October - 17.
1988 On October - 17 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft on this day in history.
1988 Scottish scientist James Black awarded the Nobel prize for his work on treating angina and blood pressure on this day in history.
1989 On this day in history earthquake in SF (6.9) kills 67
1990 On this day in history ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64
1991 J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84 on October - 17.
1992 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies on October - 17.
1993 On this day in history frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77
1994 On this day in history 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 on October - 17.
1995 On this day in history peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66
1996 Berthold Goldschmidt, composer/conductor, dies at 93 on this day in history.
1997 Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54 on this day in history.
1998 A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. At least 700 die on October - 17.
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.) on this day in history.
2000 On October - 17 pope John Paul and Britain's Queen Elizabeth meet and speak of their hopes for Christian unity. It is her first visit to the Vatican in 20 years
2005 On October - 17 jens Stoltenberg becomes 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 on this day in history.
2007 Whitehaven, England becomes the first place in the United Kingdom to have one of its analogue terrestrial television signals switched off as part of digital switchover on October - 17.
2012 On October - 17 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 on October - 17.
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 on this day in history.
2017 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares city of Marawi "liberated" from militants on October - 17.
2017 On October - 17 american short-story writer George Saunders wins the Man Booker Prize for his first novel "Lincoln in the Bardo"
2017 On this day in history syrian Civil War: Raqqa is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
2018 On this day in history 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 on this day in history.
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