398 days before today
Today is November 18th, 2024 (Monday), so 398 days before today would be:
October 17th, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
Number of days before today:
• Day numbers: 290
• Week number: 42
• Leap year: 2023 is not a leap year
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
October 17th, 2023 Holidays and National Days
October 17th, in History
2003
Taipei 101 is completed in Taipei, becoming the world’s tallest high-rise.
2001
Rehavam Ze’evi, Israeli tourism minister and founder of the right-wing Moledet party, is assassinated by a member of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); he was the first Israeli minister ever assassinated.
1994
Dmitry Kholodov, a Russian journalist, is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces; his murkier began a series of killings of journalists in Russia.
1989
The worst earthquake in 82 years strikes San Francisco bay area minutes before the start of a World Series game there. The earthquake registers 6.9 on the Richter scale–67 are killed and damage is estimated at $10 billion.
1972
Peace talks between Pathet Lao and Royal Lao government begin in Vietnam.
1956
The nuclear power station Calder Hall is opened in Britain. Calder Hall is the first nuclear station to feed an appreciable amount of power into a civilian network.
1941
The U.S. destroyer Kearny is damaged by a German U-boat torpedo off Iceland; 11 Americans are killed.
1933
Due to rising anti-Semitism and anti-intellectualism in Hitler’s Germany, Albert Einstein immigrates to the United States. He makes his new home in Princeton, N.J.
1913
Zeppelin LII explodes over London, killing 28.
1877
Brigadier General Alfred Terry meets with Sitting Bull in Canada to discuss the Indians’ return to the United States.
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