17 Mehr 1409

Events

• 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.

Births

• 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

Deaths

• 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)

All 391 events, births and deaths of October 9