Thursday April 17, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from β€œThe Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

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

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, month, and days ago
  • month since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1080
King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
1397
Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) the start of the book’s pilgrimage to Canterbury.
1524
Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the “right to free contract” is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People’s Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.

Who were born on ?

Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter, Tamil Revolutionist (d. 1805)
Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist (d. 1965)
Solly Hemus, American baseball player
James Last, German band leader
Tony Boselli, American football player
Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player

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