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This is a list of selected October 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty stub, needs more footnotes
Loyalty Day in Argentina (1945) refimprove
Dessalines Day in Haiti (1806) refimprove
1448Ottoman wars in Europe: The Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi engaged an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. refimprove section
1456 – The University of Greifswald in present-day Greifswald, Germany, was founded with the approval of the Holy Roman Empire and Pope Callixtus III. advertisement, unreferenced sections
1558Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, was founded by order of King Sigismund II Augustus. date unclear, contradicts the Poczta Polska article (October 18)
1806Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated near Port-au-Prince. refimprove section
1940 – The body of Willi Münzenberg, a communist who was the leading propagandist for the Communist Party of Germany, was found near Saint-Marcellin, France. lots of CN tags (7)
1943 – The Empire of Japan completed the Burma Railway to support its forces in the Burma Campaign of World War II at the cost of approximately 100,000 lives of forced labourers. refimprove section
1956 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in Cumbria, England. refimprove section
1961 – In Paris, the French police under Maurice Papon attacked a peaceful but illegal demonstration of some 30,000 opposed to the Algerian War, killing somewhere between 40 and 200 people. refimprove sections
1969 – The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence was stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo, Italy. Article does not specify exact date.
1973 – The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries began an oil embargo against a number of western countries, whom they believed were helping Israel in the Yom Kippur War. refimprove section
1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake struck California's San Francisco Bay Area, killing 63 people, injuring 3,757, and leaving at least 8,000 homeless. refimprove section
1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov was assassinated in the offices of Moskovskij Komsomolets during his investigations into alleged corruption among high ranks of the Russian military. refimprove section
2010Mary MacKillop was canonised to become the first Australian to be recognised by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint. lots of CN tags (6), especially in one section
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Natalia Goncharova |d|1962 refimprove section

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