April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). There are 258 days remaining.
April 17 - Events.
1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
1492 - Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices.
1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family.
1994 - Events.
January 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
January 1 - Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins war in Chiapas, Mexico
January 1 - Bantustans join South Africa
January 6 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival ...
1990 (MCMXC) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.
1990 - Events.
January 3 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega
surrenders to American forces.
January 4 - over 300 people were killed in a train accident in Ghotki pakistan.
January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
January 9 - Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello, the man who led the coup against Dr Apolo Milton Obote's governmen ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
1988 - Events.
January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
January 2 - Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
January 9 - Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
January 26 - Australia celebrates its bicentennial.
1988 - February. ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
1983 - Events.
January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City).
January 8 - Riot in the Sing Sing prison
January 10 - Mafia hitman Roy DeMeo is found dead in a trunk of his own car
January 15 - Mafioso Meyer Lansky dies at Mount Sinai hospital
January 19 - Klaus B ...
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
1954 - Events.
January 1 - Soviet Union no longer demands war reparations from East Germany
January 12 - Large-scale avalanches in Austria - over 20 dead
January 14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation
January 14 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio.
January 15 - Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in KenyaIncluding:
1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday.
1949 - Events.
January 2 - Luis Muñoz MarÃn became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
January 4 - RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage
January 4 - February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish
January 5 - ...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
1944 - Events.
January 4 - The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
January 5 - Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk.
January 14 - The Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod.
January 17 - British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River.
January 17 - Meat Rationing ends in Australia.
January 20 - The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 to ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. 1970 is the Unix epoch time.
1970 - Events.
January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.
January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 5 - The first episode of All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network.
January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
January 15 - After a 32-mo ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar).
1971 - Events.
January 1 - British Divorce Reform Act comes into force
January 2 - 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster.
January 2 - A ban on television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States.
January 3 - BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom
Januar ...
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
1957 - Events.
January 1 - Saarland joins West Germany
January 2 - San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
January 3 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch
January 4 - After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly magazine is published
January 5 - Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to ...
This page refers to the year 1979. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song).
1979 (MCMLXXIX) is a common year starting on Monday.
1979 - Events.
1979 energy crisis - occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution
January 1 - United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "International Year of the Child." Many musicians donate to the "Music for UNICEF" fund.
January 1 - Sino-American relations: United States and ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar).
1974 - Events.
January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released.
January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges
1974 - February.
February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil - ...
The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as the saint's day of that saint. The system arose from the very early Christian custom of annual commemoration of martyrs on the date of their death. As the number of recognized saints increased during Late Antiquity and roughly the first half of the Middle Ages, eventually every day of the year had at least one saint who was commemorated on that ...
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday.
1972 - Events.
International year of the book
January 2 - The Pierre Hotel Heist - Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million.
January 4 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge at the Old Bailey in London.
January 5 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space sh ...
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1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
1894 - Events.
January 7 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
January 8 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois causes a good deal of damage.
January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard (Lexington ...
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). It also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasn't had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. See 1696.
1903 - Events.
January 1 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India
January 6 - Mileva Maric married Albert Einstein.
February 11 - The Oxnard Strike of 1903 represents the first time in U.S. h ...
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S.
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Births - Deaths
1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
1882 - Events.
January 2 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut
February 3 - P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo
February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing champi ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. It is equivalent to 2733 a.U.c., and to 1359 AH.
1980 - Events.
January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom.
January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother.
January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
January 5 - Hewlett-Packard ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
1981 - Events.
January - Sarawak chamber found
January 1 - Greece enters the EEC
January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing
January 4 - Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper
January 13 - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Pershore, Worcestershire, UK, begins a uncontrollable series of sneezes that end September 16, 1983 - after 978 days
Janua ...
