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The 17t o October is the 290t day o the year (291t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 75 days bidin.

Events

2006: US Population clock on 300 million

1346 - Battle o Neville's Cross - Edward III o Ingland captures David II o Scotland.
1860 - Gowf's Open Championship is held for the first time, in Prestwick.
1917 - First Breetish bombin o Germany durin Warld War I.
1919 - Alfonso XIII o Spain opens the first line o Madrid's Metro.
1931 - Al Capone is convictit o income tax fraud.
1933 - Albert Einstein flees tae the Unitit States.
1956 - Elizabeth II opens the first commercial nuclear pouer station in northwast Ingland.
1966 - Botswana an Lesotho jyn the Unitit Naitions.
1979 - Mither Teresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1989 - The Loma Prieta yirdquauk hits the San Francisco Bay Area. At magnitude 6.9, it kills 63 fowk.
1998 - An ile pipeline splosion in Nigerie kills 1,200 fowk.
2000 - The Hatfield rail crash, tae the north o Lunnon, kills 4 fowk an injures 70.
2003 - The pinnacle is fittit tae the Taipei 101 touer in Taipei, Taiwan.
2006 - The Unitit States population offeecially reaches 300 million.
2016 - The Iraqi airmy stairts an offensive in an attempt tae retake the ceety o Mosul frae self-declarit Islamic State.
2016 - Sunset Song bi Lewis Grassic Gibbon is revealed tae be Scotland's favourite beuk in a BBC poll.
2018 - The sale an uise o cannabis becomes legal in Canadae.
2018 - 18 fowk are kilt in a shuitin at a schuil in Kerch, Crimea.

1780 - Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1850)
1912 - Pape John Paul I (d. 1978)
1914 - Willie Buchan, Scots fitbawer (d. 2003)
1914 - Simon Ramsay, 16t Yerl o Dawhoosie, Scots laund-awner, politeecian an colonial govrenor (d. 1999)
1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwricht (d. 2005)
1917 - Marsha Hunt, American actress
1918 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
1920 - Miguel Delibes, Spaingie writer (d. 2010)
1921 - George Mackay Brown, Scots poet an writer (d. 1996)
1926 - Archie Duncan, Scots historian (d. 2017)
1933 - William Anders, American astronaut
1938 - Evel Knievel, American stuntman (d. 2007)
1951 - Colin Beattie, Scots politeecian
1956 - Mae Jemison, American astronaut
1956 - Pat McCrory, American politeecian
1966 - Mark Gatiss, Inglis actor
1968 - David Robertson, Scots fitbawer
1969 - Ernie Els, Sooth African gowfer
1969 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian muisicker, actor an politeecian
1972 - Eminem, American rapper an sangster
1979 - Kimi Raikkonen, Finnish racin driver
1982 - Graeme Morrison, Scots rugby union player
1983 - Felicity Jones, Inglis actress