Wikipedia:Main Page history/2013 October 17

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• ... that
  Gothic House (pictured), a "fanciful and irresponsibly Gothick" 1820s building in Brighton
  , has most recently housed a video rental shop and the Rock 'N' Roller American Pool bar?
• ... that although most
  bamboo shark
  whole?
• ... that
  Investiture of the Gods
  ?
• ... that the video game The X-Files: Unrestricted Access includes a comprehensive database based on the first four seasons of The X-Files?
• ... that Robert Waterton, as Constable of Pontefract Castle, had custody of Richard II of England after his deposition?
• ... that participants in the 1984 Summer Olympics torch relay had to pay $3,000 to run a kilometer?

• Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse Airport, Laos, killing all 49 people on board.
• A 7.2-
  magnitude earthquake strikes the Philippines
  , resulting in more than 100 deaths.
• American economists Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their empirical analysis of asset prices.
• Navratri festival in Madhya Pradesh
  , India, killing 115 and injuring at least 110.
• Following the evacuation of 800,000 people, Cyclone Phailin (pictured) makes landfall in eastern India, causing at least 20 fatalities.

October 17: Dessalines Day in Haiti (1806)

• 1604 – German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally bright star, now known as Kepler's Supernova (remnant nebula pictured), which had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Three days after a successful revolt by inmates, Sobibor extermination camp in eastern Poland was closed.
• 1956 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in Cumbria, England.
• Yoshihiro Hattori was shot and killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  , US.
• Roman Catholic Church
  as a saint.

More anniversaries: October 16 – October 17 – October 18