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This day in the history - Oct, 17

History events - ..17 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect >>

History events - ..17 Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged. >>

Birthdays - October, 17 1688 Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726) >>

Birthdays - October, 17 1577 Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621) >>

Birthdays - October, 17 1923 Charles McClendon, American football coach (d. 2001) >>

Deaths - October, 17 532 Pope Boniface II >>

History events - October, 17 1956 The first commercial nuclear power station was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England. >>

Birthdays - October, 17 1963 Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer >>

History events - ..17 General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionists at Yorktown, Virginia. >>

Birthdays - October, 17 1941 Earl Thomas Conley, American singer >>

History events - October, 17 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. >>

History events - ..17 First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). >>

History events - ..17 Former US nurse Orville Lynn Majors is convicted of murdering six patients at a western Indiana hospital; the jury deadlocked on a seventh count. (Majors is serving a 360-year prison sentence.) >>

History events - ..17 1,800 Marines landed in Guantanamo Bay as a demonstration of naval power in the wake of the Soviet refusal to withdraw the Russian combat brigade in Cuba. >>

History events - October, 17 1448 Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. >>

History events - ..17 The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia) >>

Birthdays - October, 17 1923 Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004) >>

Birthdays - October, 17 1864 Elinor Glyn, British writer (d. 1943) >>

Birthdays - October, 17 1948 Margot Kidder, Canadian actress >>

Deaths - October, 17 1174 Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135) >>

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Education Days of British Education - Estonia >>

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