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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_17" title="October 17">October 17</a></b>:
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1346" title="1346">1346</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>: King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_II_of_Scotland" title="David II of Scotland">David II of Scotland</a> was captured at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Neville%27s_Cross" title="Battle of Neville's Cross">Battle of Neville's Cross</a></b> following his invasion of England under the terms of Scotland's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Alliance" title="Auld Alliance">Auld Alliance</a> with France.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a> – American gangster <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone" title="Al Capone">Al Capone</a></b> was convicted on five counts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion" title="Tax evasion">income-tax evasion</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952" title="1952">1952</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_Army" title="Indonesian Army">Indonesian Army</a> elements <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17_October_affair" title="17 October affair">surrounded the Merdeka Palace</a></b>, demanding that President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukarno" title="Sukarno">Sukarno</a> disband the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_House_of_Representatives" title="Provisional House of Representatives">Provisional People's Representative Council</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" title="1973">1973</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War" title="Yom Kippur War">Yom Kippur War</a>: Egyptian forces retreated from the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Chinese_Farm" title="Battle of the Chinese Farm">Battle of the Chinese Farm</a></b>, allowing Israeli forces to build their first bridge across the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000" title="2000">2000</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_rail_crash" title="Hatfield rail crash">A fatal rail accident</a></b> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield,_Hertfordshire" title="Hatfield, Hertfordshire">Hatfield, Hertfordshire</a>, led to the introduction of widespread speed limit reductions throughout the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Great_Britain" title="Rail transport in Great Britain">British rail network</a> and eventually caused the collapse of the railway management group <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack" title="Railtrack">Railtrack</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_of_Falkenburg" title="Beatrice of Falkenburg">Beatrice of Falkenburg</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1277); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Hammon" title="Jupiter Hammon">Jupiter Hammon</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1711); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_(boxer)" title="James Scott (boxer)">James Scott</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1947); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micheline_Ostermeyer" title="Micheline Ostermeyer">Micheline Ostermeyer</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2001)</p>
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