What happened on October 17th?
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| 1346 | Battle of Neville's Cross; English capture King David II. Learn more.. |
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| 1660 | Ten Regicides are executed at Charing Cross or Tyburn Learn more.. |
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| 1849 | Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, dies Learn more.. |
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| 1860 | The Golf Open Championship begins Learn more.. |
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| 1895 | John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey became the first people in Britain to be charged with motor offences Learn more.. |
| 1896 | Anton Chekhov's classic The Seagull premiered in St. Petersburg at the Alexandrinsky Theatre Learn more.. |
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| 1917 | Trans-Australian railway line completed Learn more.. |
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| 1933 | Albert Einstein emigrates to U.S. from Germany Learn more.. |
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| 1956 | Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale nuclear power station, was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II Learn more.. |
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| 1979 | VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, is released for Apple II by VisiCorp Learn more.. |
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| 2026 | Today |
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