17th October anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1859
  • "Birth of (Frederick) Childe Hassam, American Impressionist artist"
  • 1918
  • "Birth of Rita Hayworth, American actress ."
• event
  • 1346
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of Neville Cross
  • 1860
  • Great Britain
  • The Open Championship (golf) begins the 1st Professional Golf Tournament.
  • 1895
  • "First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences – John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey "
  • 1919
  • The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was founded
  • 1933
  • Physicist Albert Einstein arrived in the USA as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
  • 1979
  • Albania
  • "Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work in Calcutta, India"
  • 1989
  • "Loma Prieta Earthquake: An earthquake in San Francisco, California killed 63 people, injured 3,500 and damaged 100,000 buildings"
• Death
  • 1660
  • Great Britain
  • "The Ten Regicides responsible for the execution of King Charles 1st were drawn and quartered. Thomas Harrison, John Jones, Adrian Scrope, John Carew, Thomas Scot and Gregory Clement, who had signed the death warrant; the preacher Hugh Peters; Francis Hack"
  • 1934
  • Spain
  • "Death of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize-winning Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, one of the founders of modern neuroscience"
  • 1979
  • "Death of S.J. Perelman, American author, humorist and screenwriter"
  • 1998
  • "Death of Joan Hickson, British actress ."