A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on October 17 throughout history.
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The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of...
Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland
The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat,...
OPEC oil ministers use oil as an economic weapon in the Arab-Israeli War, mandate a cut in exports, and recommend an embargo against unfriendly states [1]
Islamic State headquarters in Raqqa is declared under full control of the US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesperson Talal Sello after four months of fighting
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold.
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
1st British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins the inaugural event by two strokes over fellow Scot Tom Morris Sr.
Crown prince Fernando of Aragon (17) marries heir Princess Isabella of Castile (18), will unite the two Spanish crowns (not officially one country till 1707-16)
German composer Johann Sebastian Bach marries for the 1st time his cousin Maria Barbara Bach
US revolutionary Samuel Adams (27) weds Elizabeth Checkley
Maren Larae Morris is an American country singer and songwriter from Arlington, Texas.
Jewish autonomy in Palestine ended by the Romans and Raban Gamliel forced from office
Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Monastary of Windesheim consecrated in the Netherlands
Cosma de' Migliorati is elected Pope Innocentius VII
Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II
University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern continental Europe and, for a period, the oldest in Sweden and Prussia
Tomás de Torquemada (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.
The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States.
Pierre de Marivaux's play "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour" premieres in Paris
Ivan VI Antonovich, also known as Ioann Antonovich, was Emperor of Russia from October 1740 until he was overthrown by his cousin Elizabeth Petrovna in December 1741.
General John Burgoyne (24 February 1722 – 4 August 1792) was a British Army officer, playwright and politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1761 to 1792.
Boston African Americans petition the legislature for equal school facilities
Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Netherlands become part of France
The Dutch Cape Colony (Dutch: Nederlandse Kaapkolonie), officially known as the Cape of Good Hope Waystation (Dutch: Tussenstation Kaap de Goede Hoop), was a colony of the Dutch East India Company...
The first Republic of Haiti (French: République d'Haïti; Haitian Creole: Repiblik d Ayiti) controlled the southern portions of Haiti from 1806 until 1820.
Political rights of Jews are suspended in the Duchy of Warsaw
London Beer Flood: A burst vat at Meux & Company Brewery floods city streets with over 300,000 gallons of porter ale, killing eight, with a possible ninth later from alcohol poisoning [1]
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the Grand Old Ditch, operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and...
Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organizes
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
Battle of Leetown and Thoroughfare Gap, VA
The Constitution of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerger Constitutioun/Verfassung; French: Constitution du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg; German: Luxemburgische Verfassung) is the supreme law of the...
Great Britain annexes Griqualand, South Africa
Baseball sets all players' salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for the 1885 season
Ohio National Guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a Black man
Sutro Railroad is sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000
Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia declare war on Turkey
Dutch women demonstrate for women's suffrage
A German air campaign of the First World War was carried out against Britain. After several attacks by seaplanes, the main campaign began in January 1915 with airships.
De Kooy Airport in the Netherlands opens
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was a major American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1987.
The Decatur Staleys, later known as the Chicago Bears, play their first American Professional Football Association game against an affiliated APFA team and defeat the Rock Island Independents 7-0 at Douglas Park, Rock Island, Illinois
Belgium's public library law goes into effect
Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow to London
Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, Dutch: Radboud Universiteit, formerly Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) is a public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as president of MLB's American League
"The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
Pacific Association of the AAU votes not to participate in the Berlin Olympics
The military occupation of the Channel Islands by Nazi Germany lasted for most of the Second World War, from 30 June 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945.
This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II in 1941, marked also by the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front.
Egyptian army fires on British soldiers
Adrian Matthew Burk (December 14, 1927 – July 28, 2003) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback and punter in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts and...
Lee Meriwether joins Today Show panel
Queen Elizabeth II is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
US and Britain sign an accord granting the US access to the British nuclear submarine base in Holy Loch, Scotland
The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: XXII съезд КПСС) was held from 17 to 31 October 1961.
The Beatles make their live television debut, appearing on Manchester's local "People And Places" program, performing "Some Other Guy" and their new single "Love Me Do"
Australian athlete Betty Cuthbert wins her fourth career Olympic gold medal as she triumphs in the women's 400 m at the Tokyo Games with an Olympic record of 52.0
WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
Barbra Streisand stars in the "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS
Memorial service for musical act manager Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue; mourners include Cilla Black, Gerry Marsden, The Fourmost, Billy J. Kramer, and The Beatles
US men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay team of Zac Zorn, Stephen Rerych, Ken Walsh, and Mark Spitz swims a world record of 3:31.7 to outclass the Soviet Union and Australia and win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
"Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" is a song by Yoko Ono that was originally released by the Plastic Ono Band in October 1969 as the B-side of the "Cold Turkey"...
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.
Bob Randall's "6 Rms Riv Vu" premieres in New York City
The London Chuck Berry Sessions is the sixteenth studio album by Chuck Berry, and consists of studio recordings and live recordings released by Chess Records in October 1972 as LP record, 8 track...
NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28-game road losing streak against the Knicks in New York City; their first road victory comes in February
First Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Technology Laboratories in Pearl River, Mississippi
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, China
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the second-largest...
NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
US President Jimmy Carter presents Congressional Medal to American opera singer Marian Anderson
D. Bautista of Mexico completes a 20,000 m walk in a record time of 1:20:06.8
Brazilian Nelson Piquet, driving for Brabham, finishes 5th in the season-ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by 1 point from Carlos Reutemann
First live orchestra on a US commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony)
Gérard Debreu was a French-born economist and mathematician. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel...
Robert Bruce Merrifield (July 15, 1921 – May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis.
The 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French novelist Claude Simon (1913–2005) "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time...
US Senate approves immigration bill prohibiting the hiring of illegal aliens and offers amnesty to those who entered prior to 1982
US First Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong drops out of school to pursue a career in music
Ángel Cordero Jr. is the third jockey to win 7,000 horse races
Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets an NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals and 744 assists)
The Garth Brooks World Tour was a concert tour by American country music artist Garth Brooks.
Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj is an Indian former cricket team captain. He is regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket, he was a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting...
Keith Moore is sentenced to six years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
In Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 1,200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline
Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leads to the collapse of Railtrack
Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh form the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics
With about 4% of the world's population, the United States is the third most populous country, and the most populous in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere.
Iran attempts to create the world's largest sandwich (1,500 meters) but fails when crowds eat it before it can be measured
Alpha Centauri (α Centauri, α Cen, or Alpha Cen) is a star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus.
Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the forces of the U.S.-led coalition during the...
Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo is an hour-long comedy special from Amy Schumer that premiered on HBO on October 17, 2015.
Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 launches from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northern China
George Saunders is an American writer. He is best known for his short stories and his novel Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Booker Prize.
Australian state of Queensland decriminalizes abortion
The revived sitcom "The Conners" debuts on ABC TV starring Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, and John Goodman, without fired former star Roseanne Barr
Chicago is declared the "rattiest city" in America for the sixth year in a row by pest control service Orkin
John Wilkes, English radical, journalist, and politician, known for english radical, journalist, and politician, was born on 1725-10-17.
Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician, known for chinese politician, was born on 1919-10-17. Zhao Ziyang (17 October 1919 – 17 January 2005) was a Chinese politician.
Evel Knievel, American stunt performer, known for american stunt performer, was born on 1938-10-17.
Mae Jemison, American astronaut, doctor and engineer, known for american astronaut, doctor and engineer, was born on 1957-10-17.
Doug McMillon, American businessman, known for american businessman, was born on 1967-10-17.
Rita Hayworth, American actress, dancer, pin-up girl, known for american actress, dancer, pin-up girl, was born on 1918-10-17. Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl.
Montgomery Clift, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1920-10-17. Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor.
Mike Judge, American actor, animator, and filmmaker, known for american actor, animator, and filmmaker, was born on 1963-10-17.
Felicity Jones, English actress, known for british actress, was born on 1984-10-17. Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress.
Alan Jackson, American musician, known for american singer and songwriter, was born on 1959-10-17. Alan Eugene Jackson is an American singer-songwriter.
Eminem, American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1973-10-17. Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, record…
Ernie Els, South African athlete, known for south african professional golfer, was born on 1970-10-17. Theodore Ernest Els is a South African professional golfer. A former World No.
Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish athlete, known for finnish racing driver, was born on 1980-10-17.
Jewish autonomy in Palestine ended by the Romans and Raban Gamliel forced from office
Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Monastary of Windesheim consecrated in the Netherlands
Cosma de' Migliorati is elected Pope Innocentius VII
Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II
University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern continental Europe and, for a period, the oldest in Sweden and Prussia
Crown prince Fernando of Aragon (17) marries heir Princess Isabella of Castile (18), will unite the two Spanish crowns (not officially one country till 1707-16)
Tomás de Torquemada (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.
The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States.
German composer Johann Sebastian Bach marries for the 1st time his cousin Maria Barbara Bach
Pierre de Marivaux's play "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour" premieres in Paris
John Wilkes, English radical, journalist, and politician, known for english radical, journalist, and politician, was born on 1725-10-17.
Ivan VI Antonovich, also known as Ioann Antonovich, was Emperor of Russia from October 1740 until he was overthrown by his cousin Elizabeth Petrovna in December 1741.
US revolutionary Samuel Adams (27) weds Elizabeth Checkley
General John Burgoyne (24 February 1722 – 4 August 1792) was a British Army officer, playwright and politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1761 to 1792.
Boston African Americans petition the legislature for equal school facilities
Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Netherlands become part of France
The Dutch Cape Colony (Dutch: Nederlandse Kaapkolonie), officially known as the Cape of Good Hope Waystation (Dutch: Tussenstation Kaap de Goede Hoop), was a colony of the Dutch East India Company...
The first Republic of Haiti (French: République d'Haïti; Haitian Creole: Repiblik d Ayiti) controlled the southern portions of Haiti from 1806 until 1820.
Political rights of Jews are suspended in the Duchy of Warsaw
London Beer Flood: A burst vat at Meux & Company Brewery floods city streets with over 300,000 gallons of porter ale, killing eight, with a possible ninth later from alcohol poisoning [1]
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the Grand Old Ditch, operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and...
Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organizes
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of...
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
1st British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins the inaugural event by two strokes over fellow Scot Tom Morris Sr.
Battle of Leetown and Thoroughfare Gap, VA
The Constitution of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerger Constitutioun/Verfassung; French: Constitution du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg; German: Luxemburgische Verfassung) is the supreme law of the...
Great Britain annexes Griqualand, South Africa
Baseball sets all players' salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for the 1885 season
Ohio National Guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a Black man
Sutro Railroad is sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000
Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland
Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia declare war on Turkey
Dutch women demonstrate for women's suffrage
A German air campaign of the First World War was carried out against Britain. After several attacks by seaplanes, the main campaign began in January 1915 with airships.
De Kooy Airport in the Netherlands opens
Rita Hayworth, American actress, dancer, pin-up girl, known for american actress, dancer, pin-up girl, was born on 1918-10-17. Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl.
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was a major American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1987.
Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician, known for chinese politician, was born on 1919-10-17. Zhao Ziyang (17 October 1919 – 17 January 2005) was a Chinese politician.
The Decatur Staleys, later known as the Chicago Bears, play their first American Professional Football Association game against an affiliated APFA team and defeat the Rock Island Independents 7-0 at Douglas Park, Rock Island, Illinois
Montgomery Clift, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1920-10-17. Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor.
Belgium's public library law goes into effect
Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow to London
Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, Dutch: Radboud Universiteit, formerly Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) is a public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as president of MLB's American League
"The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
Pacific Association of the AAU votes not to participate in the Berlin Olympics
Evel Knievel, American stunt performer, known for american stunt performer, was born on 1938-10-17.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold.
The military occupation of the Channel Islands by Nazi Germany lasted for most of the Second World War, from 30 June 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945.
This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II in 1941, marked also by the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front.
The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat,...
Egyptian army fires on British soldiers
Adrian Matthew Burk (December 14, 1927 – July 28, 2003) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback and punter in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts and...
Lee Meriwether joins Today Show panel
Mae Jemison, American astronaut, doctor and engineer, known for american astronaut, doctor and engineer, was born on 1957-10-17.
Queen Elizabeth II is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
Alan Jackson, American musician, known for american singer and songwriter, was born on 1959-10-17. Alan Eugene Jackson is an American singer-songwriter.
US and Britain sign an accord granting the US access to the British nuclear submarine base in Holy Loch, Scotland
The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: XXII съезд КПСС) was held from 17 to 31 October 1961.
The Beatles make their live television debut, appearing on Manchester's local "People And Places" program, performing "Some Other Guy" and their new single "Love Me Do"
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Mike Judge, American actor, animator, and filmmaker, known for american actor, animator, and filmmaker, was born on 1963-10-17.
Australian athlete Betty Cuthbert wins her fourth career Olympic gold medal as she triumphs in the women's 400 m at the Tokyo Games with an Olympic record of 52.0
WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
Barbra Streisand stars in the "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS
Memorial service for musical act manager Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue; mourners include Cilla Black, Gerry Marsden, The Fourmost, Billy J. Kramer, and The Beatles
Doug McMillon, American businessman, known for american businessman, was born on 1967-10-17.
US men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay team of Zac Zorn, Stephen Rerych, Ken Walsh, and Mark Spitz swims a world record of 3:31.7 to outclass the Soviet Union and Australia and win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
"Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" is a song by Yoko Ono that was originally released by the Plastic Ono Band in October 1969 as the B-side of the "Cold Turkey"...
Ernie Els, South African athlete, known for south african professional golfer, was born on 1970-10-17. Theodore Ernest Els is a South African professional golfer. A former World No.
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.
Bob Randall's "6 Rms Riv Vu" premieres in New York City
The London Chuck Berry Sessions is the sixteenth studio album by Chuck Berry, and consists of studio recordings and live recordings released by Chess Records in October 1972 as LP record, 8 track...
OPEC oil ministers use oil as an economic weapon in the Arab-Israeli War, mandate a cut in exports, and recommend an embargo against unfriendly states [1]
Eminem, American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1973-10-17. Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, record…
NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28-game road losing streak against the Knicks in New York City; their first road victory comes in February
First Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Technology Laboratories in Pearl River, Mississippi
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, China
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the second-largest...
NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
US President Jimmy Carter presents Congressional Medal to American opera singer Marian Anderson
D. Bautista of Mexico completes a 20,000 m walk in a record time of 1:20:06.8
Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish athlete, known for finnish racing driver, was born on 1980-10-17.
Brazilian Nelson Piquet, driving for Brabham, finishes 5th in the season-ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by 1 point from Carlos Reutemann
First live orchestra on a US commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony)
Gérard Debreu was a French-born economist and mathematician. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel...
Robert Bruce Merrifield (July 15, 1921 – May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis.
Felicity Jones, English actress, known for british actress, was born on 1984-10-17. Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress.
The 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French novelist Claude Simon (1913–2005) "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time...
US Senate approves immigration bill prohibiting the hiring of illegal aliens and offers amnesty to those who entered prior to 1982
US First Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong drops out of school to pursue a career in music
Ángel Cordero Jr. is the third jockey to win 7,000 horse races
Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets an NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals and 744 assists)
The Garth Brooks World Tour was a concert tour by American country music artist Garth Brooks.
Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj is an Indian former cricket team captain. He is regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket, he was a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting...
Keith Moore is sentenced to six years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
In Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 1,200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline
Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leads to the collapse of Railtrack
Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh form the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics
With about 4% of the world's population, the United States is the third most populous country, and the most populous in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere.
Iran attempts to create the world's largest sandwich (1,500 meters) but fails when crowds eat it before it can be measured
Alpha Centauri (α Centauri, α Cen, or Alpha Cen) is a star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus.
Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the forces of the U.S.-led coalition during the...
Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo is an hour-long comedy special from Amy Schumer that premiered on HBO on October 17, 2015.
Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 launches from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northern China
Islamic State headquarters in Raqqa is declared under full control of the US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesperson Talal Sello after four months of fighting
George Saunders is an American writer. He is best known for his short stories and his novel Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Booker Prize.
Australian state of Queensland decriminalizes abortion
The revived sitcom "The Conners" debuts on ABC TV starring Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, and John Goodman, without fired former star Roseanne Barr
Chicago is declared the "rattiest city" in America for the sixth year in a row by pest control service Orkin
Maren Larae Morris is an American country singer and songwriter from Arlington, Texas.