República Checa

The October 17th is the 290e Jour of the Année (291e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 75 days before the end of the year.

Events

Before JC

  • 539 av. J-C: Cyrus Large the, king de Perse, takes the town of Babylon, and makes the first “statement of the human rights”.

1 to 1900

XXe century

  • 1912 : The Bulgaria, the Greece and the Serbia declare the war with the Ottoman Empire. First Balkan war (Oct. - Nov.), demolished Ottoman Empire.

  • 1913 : The Serbes invade the Albania.
  • 1931 : Al Capone, gangster American, is condemned to 11 years of prison for tax avoidance.
  • 1933 : Albert Einstein arrives like refugee at the the United States, after having fled the mode Nazi in Germany
  • 1937: Riots burst in the Sudètes, in Czechoslovakia.
  • 1941 : A German U-Boot damages seriously the destroyer US Kearney
  • 1945: In Argentina, the colonel Juan Peron seizes the power like dictator.
  • 1957 : The writer Albert Camus, receives the Nobel Prize of literature
  • 1961: Massacre of the Maghrebians expressing peacefully for the independence of Algeria by the French police force, then under the orders of the prefect Maurice Papon. 325 people killed by the police force according to certain estimates.
  • 1970 : The Deputy Prime Minister for Quebec and Minister for Labor Pierre Laporte is assassinated by the terrorist group of FLQ.
  • 1972 : The president Park Chung-hee issues the martial Loi in South Korea
  • 1973: OPEC decides a reduction of the deliveries of Pétrole, against Western countries, shown to have helped Israel in the war against the Syria, which started the First oil crisis.
  • 1975 : The king Hassan II takes the head of the " green Walk " Morrocan woman in the Western Sahara.
  • 1977 : Four days after being diverted, the Vol 181 of Lufthansa is posed with Mogadiscio, Somalia or the passengers are released by the German special forces.
  • 1978 : The Pape Jean-Paul II promises “a ministry of love” at the beginning of its reign.
  • 1979 : Mother Teresa, receives the Nobel Prize of peace
  • 1985: The diversion of the Steamer " Achilles Lauro " involve the resignation of the Italian government .
  • 1987 :
    • Privatization of Suez: 1,6 million subscribers.
    • On the initiative of Joseph Wresinski, 100.000 defenders of the Human rights gather in Paris (France), in Trocadéro, in the honor of the victims of the Misère. This gathering will be the birth certificate of the world Journée of the refusal of the misery, recognized in 1992 by UNO.
  • 1989 : A violent one earthquake, of a magnitude of 7,1 shakes the north of the California and Bay of San Francisco. The damage is important.
  • 1990 : Creation of Internet Movie Database, alias IMDb, become the greatest collaborative database of the world.
  • 1992 : The the United Nations declare on October 17th, World Journée for the Eradication of Poverty, as from 1993.
  • 1994:
    • Peace agreements between the Jordan and Israel.
    • the Angolan government and the rebels of UNITA sign a peace treaty.
  • 1995 : Eighth attack with the gas bottle, on the line-C of the RER between the stations Museum of Orsay and Saint-Michel with Paris: five seriously injureds.
  • 1997 : Thirty years after its execution in the Bolivian mountains, Ernesto " Che" Guevara is buried with Santa Clara, after the repatriation of its skin with Cuba.
  • 1998 : The explosion of a Pipeline with the Nigeria, caused by people who tried to trap it, causes the death of at least 700 people.
  • 1999 : The Mammoth Jarkov, old man 20.000 year old, found intact with its skin, its flesh and its hairs in 1997, is extracted from the ices of Siberia by an international team.

XXIe century

  • 2001 :

    • After Capitole with Washington, of the spores of the bacillus of coal is found in the offices of Manhattan of the governor of the State of New York, George Pataki.
    • the deputy of Haut-Rhin Marc Dumoulin, shown rape towards his/her 12 year old niece, is condemned to five years of prison including two with deferment by the Court of Assizes of the the Low-Rhine.
    • Assassination of the Israeli general Rehavam Zeevi, Minister for tourism in the government of Ariel Sharon, by PFLP, during the the Second Intifada.
  • 2003 :
    • the Mont Blanc, plus high summit of Europe with its 4.810,40m, loses altitude and measures nothing any more but 4.808,45m of altitude, according to new measurements.
    • At the European top of Brussels, the German chancellor Gerhard Schroder is made represent by the French president Jacques Chirac.
    • Weakened for several weeks by a political and social serious attack, the Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada has resigned of its functions. Carlos Mesa, vice-president, will succeed to him.
    • Last episode and end of the Televised series Buffy against the Vampires
  • 2004: Caracas, the tower Is of the 2 Parque turns Central of 56 stages takes fire of the 34 ème to the 44 ème stages.
  • 2005 : Europe 2 TV, television channel on Digital terrestrial television is launched to 17:17
  • 2006: the American population reaches the figure symbolic system of 300 million.
  • 2007 :

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Dared (prophet), (8th century before JC).
  • Baudouin de Laon (+ towards 680), archdeacon martyr.
  • Lazare: Translation of its relics from Cyprus to Constantinople (9th century).
  • Solène of Chartres (+ towards 290), virgin and martyrdom.

See too

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