WHAT HAPPENED ON 17. OCTOBER
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Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile. Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Yehud Medinata and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. (17. October 539. BC)

Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats the Roman usurper Avitus near Piacenza (Northern Italy) . (17. October 456)

London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. (17. October 1091)

Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by the English near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. (17. October 1346)

Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. (17. October 1448)

The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia). (17. October 1456)

Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded. (17. October 1558)

Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus. (17. October 1604)

French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims. (17. October 1610)

Nine regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered. (17. October 1660)

Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds. (17. October 1662)

Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15. (17. October 1771)

American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York. (17. October 1777)

American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown. (17. October 1781)

Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao. (17. October 1800)

Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule. (17. October 1806)

First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). (17. October 1860)

19 people are killed in the Cullin-La-Ringo massacre, the deadliest massacre of Europeans by aborigines in Australian history. (17. October 1861)

Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). (17. October 1888)

The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (17. October 1905)