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Events on October 17

• 1604 Astronomer Johannes Kepler observes the supernova of 1604 in the constellation Ophiuchus (“Kepler's Star”), the last supernova discovered in our Milky Way to date. He later publishes his findings in the work De Stella nova in pede Serpentarii.
• 1810 At the Theresienwiese in Munich, a folk festival with horse races takes place at the conclusion of the wedding celebrations between Crown Prince Ludwig (the later King Ludwig I.) and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. It is regarded as the first Oktoberfest.
• 1868 In Mannheim, the Revised Act of Navigation is signed, guaranteeing free navigation on the Rhine. It remains the legal basis for free navigation on the Rhine to this day.
• 1933 Albert Einstein emigrates from the Third Reich to the USA.
• 1967 The musical Hair premieres in New York.
• 1973 With an increase in the price of crude oil from three to five US dollars per barrel and production limits, some OPEC states trigger the first oil crisis.
• 1974 The first German furniture store of the Swedish company IKEA is opened in Eching near Munich.
• 1982 Following riots before the DFB Cup match between Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen, Bremen fan Adrian Maleika dies. He is the only death to date in connection with disturbances at football matches in Germany.
• 1989 The Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco Bay, with a magnitude of 7.1 on the magnitude scale and the strongest earthquake in the region since the Great Earthquake of 1906, causes severe damage in San Francisco and Oakland.
• 1990 The first version of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is released.
• 2003 The German Bundestag and Bundesrat appoint the Federalism Commission. It is to develop proposals for a comprehensive reform of federalism in Germany.
• 2005 A locomotive shed of the Nuremberg Transport Museum burns almost completely, destroying several historic locomotives or severely damaging them.

Born on October 17

• 1873 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer
• 1912 Pope John Paul I., Pope
• 1915 Arthur Miller, American playwright
• 1920 Montgomery Clift, American actor
• 1943 Christian Brückner, German actor and voice actor
• 1950 Erich Kühnhackl, German ice hockey player
• 1971 Jana Thiel, German sports presenter and journalist
• 1981 Sophie Dal, German actress
• 1991 Lena Conzendorf, German actress and musical theatre performer
• 2002 Maximilian Beier, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „17. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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