Thursday October 17, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

October 17: Day of the Week

October 17, 2024 is the 291st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

October 17 Historical Event(s)

1448
Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
1610
French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
1781
American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
1806
Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1814
London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
1905
The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
1907
Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1943
Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
1970
Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
2000
Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.

Who were born on October 17?

1577
Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
1921
Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
1933
Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
1934
Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005)
1934
Rico Rodriguez, ska and reggae trombonist
1936
Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African vocalist and composer
1941
Earl Thomas Conley, American singer
1957
Vincent Van Patten, American actor
1984
Randall Munroe, American cartoonist
1992
Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor

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