Template:On this day/17 October

17 October:

• 1346 – Battle o Neville's Cross: King David II o Scotland (picturt) is capturt bi the Inglis near Durham, an imprisoned in the Touer o Lunnon for eleiven years.
• 1610 – French king Louis XIII is crouned in Reims Cathedral.
• 1931 – Al Capone is convictit o income tax evasion.
• 1956 – The first commercial nuclear pouer station is offeecially appent bi Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, in Cumbrie, Ingland.
• 2003 – The pinnacle is fittit on the ruif o Taipei 101, a 101-fluir skyscraper in Taipei, allouin it tae surpass the Petronas Twin Touers in Kuala Lumpur bi 56 metre (184 ft) an become the warld's tawest heichrise.

Frédéric Chopin (d. 1849) · Rita Hayworth (b. 1918) · Eminem (b. 1972)