Today in History
17 October
379 births · 117 deaths · 61 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1984
Giovanni Marchese (footballer)
Italian footballer
Notable Births
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Matthew Knies
b. 2002
American ice hockey player (born 2002)
Thomas Strudwick
b. 2001
British motorcycle racer
Robert Williams III
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Jake DeBrusk
b. 1996
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Jamal Adams
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Randall Munroe
b. 1984
American cartoonist and author (born 1984)
Giovanni Marchese (footballer)
b. 1984
Italian footballer
William Anders
b. 1933
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–2024)
Notable Deaths
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Mitzi Gaynor
d. 2024
American actress (1931–2024)
Toshiyuki Nishida
d. 2024
Japanese actor (1947–2024)
Andrew Schally
d. 2024
American endocrinologist (1926–2024)
Elijah Cummings
d. 2019
American politician (1951–2019)
Gord Downie
d. 2017
Canadian musician and writer (1964–2017)
Danièle Delorme
d. 2015
French actress and producer (1926–2015)
Howard Kendall
d. 2015
English footballer and manager
Anne-Marie Lizin
d. 2015
Belgian politician (1949–2015)
On This Day in History
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2023
An explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza kills hundreds of Palestinians during the Gaza war.
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion
2019
Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.
Culiacán
2019
The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.
17 October Revolution
2018
The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
Cannabis Act (Canada)
2018
A mass shooting and bombing at Kerch Polytechnic College in Crimea kills 21 people including the attacker and injures 70 others.
Kerch Polytechnic College massacre
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.
Syrian civil war
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.
Parque Central Complex fire
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.
Rehavam Ze'evi