October 17th......this day in history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1979 - Beatlemania closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 perfs 1979 - D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8 Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa 1979 - Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1979 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series 1979 - Pres Carter signs legislation creating Dept of Education 1980 - 1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW v Qld (2-52 & 1-39) 1982 - 1st live orch on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony) 1982 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 1982 - Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series 1982 - Sam Shepards True West premieres in NYC 1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1983 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu 1983 - STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem 1984 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield 1985 - French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature 1985 - Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager 1986 - US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982 1986 - Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government 1987 - Late Nite Comic closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances 1987 - 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome) 1987 - 1st Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy 1988 - 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome 1988 - Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees 1988 - Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment 1988 - Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft 1988 - Rockin Robin beats Sensational Sherri Martel for WWF womans title 1988 - Traveling Wilburys 1st release Handle With Care 1989 - Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67 1990 - Jackie Mason - Brand New opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 perfs 1990 - Les Miserables, opens at Imperial Theatre, NY & His Majestys Theatre, Perth 1991 - Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races 1991 - Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates for NL pennant in 7 games 1991 - News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby 1991 - Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals & 744 assists) 1992 - 1st World Series with non-US team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves 1993 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Womens Golf 1994 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Womens Golf The Pianoman Billy Joel 1994 - Billy Joel performs opening concert at Clevelands Gund Arena 1994 - Kapil Devs final one-day international (v West Indies) 1995 - Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000 1996 - Taking Sides, opens at Atkinson Theater NYC 1998 - At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. 2000 - Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack. 2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the Worlds tallest highrise. 2003 - Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics. 2005 - The Colbert Report first airs. 2006 - The United States population reaches 300 million. 2007 - The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal. 2012 - The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri 2012 - Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal 2012 - Tens of thousands protest austerity measures in Greece
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