17 Mehr 1384 | Sunday 9 October 2005

This day in four calendars

1831 (195 years ago) Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.
1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
1936 (90 years ago) Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
1941 (85 years ago) A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1962 (64 years ago) Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1969 (57 years ago) In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
1986 (40 years ago) The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
2016 (10 years ago) The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.

1852 (174 years ago) Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
1879 (147 years ago) Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
1892 (134 years ago) Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
1906 (120 years ago) Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (died 2001)
1938 (88 years ago) Heinz Fischer, Austrian academic and politician, 11th President of Austria
1940 (86 years ago) John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1980)
1959 (67 years ago) Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (died 2015)
1966 (60 years ago) David Cameron, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1943 (83 years ago) Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
1958 (68 years ago) Pope Pius XII,
1967 (59 years ago) Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (born 1928)
1967 (59 years ago) André Maurois, French soldier and author (born 1885)
1974 (52 years ago) Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (born 1908)
1978 (48 years ago) Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1929)
2004 (22 years ago) Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1930)
2016 (10 years ago) Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (born 1926)