What is the worldwide significance of October 17th? The first correct answer gets best answer.
2007-01-19 01:35:31 · 11 answers · asked by ? 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Thx 4 the link knightwing. It should be easy 4 u guys now. There's only one event that happens worldwide on Oct 17 every year.
2007-01-19 01:51:10 · update #1
Eradication Of Poverty Day. Thanks Knightwing.
2007-01-19 05:52:39 · answer #1 · answered by Cream tea 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining in the year on this date.
Holidays and observances
R.C. Saints - Saint Ignatius of Antioch; translation of Saint Audrey (Ãthelthryth); Saint Richard Gwyn; Saint Catervus
Haiti - Death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1806), State holiday
United States - Black Poetry Day
French Republican Calendar - Aubergine (Eggplant) Day, twenty-sixth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
2007-01-20 22:35:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russian Revolution.
2007-01-19 01:38:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The feast day of St. Margaret Mary of the Sacred Heart.
2007-01-19 01:39:05 · answer #4 · answered by Penelope Yelsopee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
October 17th, 1917, Bolsheviks (Communist) Revolution
2007-01-19 01:42:14 · answer #5 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah call me thick but i didn't know that oct 17th was a significant day.
your not trying to be funny are you and in fact oct 17th is your birthday?
2007-01-20 06:59:07 · answer #6 · answered by coy carp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the day after my birthday.
Internationally recognised as World Hangover Day
2007-01-19 01:45:09 · answer #7 · answered by Michael H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to link. My answer gets left out after I submit it.
2007-01-19 01:45:20 · answer #8 · answered by knightwing992000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
paris massacre in 1961
2007-01-19 01:43:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Octkober Fest , It' Great
2007-01-19 05:50:48 · answer #10 · answered by johnnybegood 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is it anything to do with st georges day, st davids, st pactrics or st andrews day? not sure which one
2007-01-19 01:40:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋