17 Mehr 1375

Events

• 1645 (381 years ago) Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.
• 1862 (164 years ago) American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
• 1918 (108 years ago) World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
• 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.
• 1967 (59 years ago) Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. Guevara would be executed the next day.
• 1986 (40 years ago) An explosion occurred at the Cipel-Marco fur factory in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, killing 14 and injuring 10.
• 2019 (7 years ago) About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland.
• 2020 (6 years ago) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan twice deliberately targeted the Church of the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots of Shusha.

Births

• 1892 (134 years ago) Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and author (died 1941)
• 1895 (131 years ago) Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, 29th President of Argentina (died 1974)
• 1920 (106 years ago) Frank Herbert, American journalist, photographer, and author (died 1986)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Sigourney Weaver, American actress and producer
• 1958 (68 years ago) Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian-German physician and politician, Defense Minister of Germany, President of the European Commission
• 1970 (56 years ago) Matt Damon, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 (56 years ago) Sadiq Khan, English lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Transport, Mayor of London
• 1985 (41 years ago) Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

Deaths

• 705 (1321 years ago) Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Umayyad caliph (born 646)
• 1754 (272 years ago) Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright (born 1707)
• 1869 (157 years ago) Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (born 1804)
• 1936 (90 years ago) Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (born 1880)
• 1967 (59 years ago) Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1883)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, playwright, and critic (born 1889)
• 1992 (34 years ago) Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
• 2008 (18 years ago) George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

All 396 events, births and deaths of October 8