17 October

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

## Events

* 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.

## Births

* 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

## Daiths
* 532 - Pape Boniface II
* 1788 - John Brown, Scots medicinar (b. 1735)
* 1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian politeecian (b. 1758)
* 1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spaingie pathologist an neuroscientist (b. 1852)
* 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Pols componer (b. 1810)
* 1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
* 1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German pheesicist (b. 1824)
* 1967 - Puyi, last Emperor o Cheenae (b. 1906)
* 2012 - Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress (b. 1952)
* 2017 - Danielle Darrieux, French actress an sangster (b. 1917)

## Halidays
* Dessalines Day (Haiti)