April 17th, 1957

Born on April 17th, 1957

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What happened on April 17th?

April 17th, 2013

An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, U.S., killing 15 people and injuring 160 others.

April 17th, 2006

A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives in a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 11 people and injuring 70 others.

April 17th, 1942

World War II: Captured French general Henri Giraud escaped from German captivity in the Königstein Castle.

April 17th, 2014

NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habitable zone of another star.

April 17th, 1986

The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single shot being fired and no casualties incurred.

April 17th, 1984

Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London, resulting in an 11-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of Libya–United Kingdom relations.

April 17th, 1975

The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of the Khmer Republic, ending the Cambodian Civil War and establishing the socialist state of Democratic Kampuchea.

April 17th, 1973

George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars.

April 17th, 1971

Ustaše-affiliated Croatian separatists attacked the Yugoslav embassy in Stockholm, fatally shooting the ambassador, Vladimir Rolović.

April 17th, 1969

Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy.

April 17th, 1951

The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom.

April 17th, 1907

Minas Geraes (pictured), the first of three Brazilian dreadnought battleships, was laid down, sparking a vastly expensive South American naval arms race with Argentina and Chile.

April 17th, 1809

Napoleonic Wars: After a three-day chase, the French ship D'Hautpoul was captured off Puerto Rico by a British squadron under Alexander Cochrane.

April 17th, 1797

French Revolutionary Wars: British forces commanded by Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby invaded the Spanish colonial port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

April 17th, 1783

The Mechanical Turk (pictured), a fraudulent chess-playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controlled by a hidden human, began a tour of Europe.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 17th

Born on April 17th, 1957

69

Nick Hornby

English novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and film producer (born 1957)

*April 17th, 1957, Redhill

69

Afrika Bambaataa

American DJ, record producer and rapper

*April 17th, 1957, New York City

69

Giuseppe Zanotti

Italian shoe designer

*April 17th, 1957, San Mauro Pascoli

69

Marc Aillet

Bishop of Bayonne

*April 17th, 1957, Parakou

69

Zinedine Soualem

French actor

*April 17th, 1957, Thiers

69

Susan Roman

Canadian voice actress

*April 17th, 1957, Edmonton

Same year
Born in 1957

68

Julian Cope

British musician and author

*October 21st, 1957, Deri

68

John Kassir

American actor and comedian

*October 24th, 1957, Baltimore

69

Kristin Clemet

Norwegian politician

*April 20th, 1957, Harstad Municipality

68

Klaus Augenthaler

German football player and manager

*September 26th, 1957, Fürstenzell

68

François Asselineau

French politician and official

*September 14th, 1957, Paris

54

Osama bin Laden

Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)

*March 10th, 1957, Riyadh †May 2nd, 2011, Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad

69

Hansi Müller

German association football player

*July 27th, 1957, Stuttgart

69

Frances McDormand

American actress

*June 23rd, 1957, Gibson City

68

Stephen Fry

British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

*August 24th, 1957, Hampstead

68

Jürgen Uteß

German association football player

*October 27th, 1957, Greifswald

69

Henning Krautmacher

German singer and actor

*March 5th, 1957, Leverkusen

60

Alain Defossé

French writer and translator (1957-2017)

*February 11th, 1957, Nantes †May 14th, 2017, 19th arrondissement of Paris

69

Timothy Spall

English actor

*February 27th, 1957, London

68

Dani Rodrik

Turkish economist and publicist (born 1957)

*August 14th, 1957, Istanbul

69

Daniel Day-Lewis

British-Irish actor

*April 29th, 1957, Kensington

69

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

69

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

9th President of the Republic of Singapore

*January 22nd, 1957, Singapore

69

Amanda Plummer

American actress

*March 23rd, 1957, New York City

68

Hans Zimmer

German film composer (born 1957)

*September 12th, 1957, Frankfurt

68

Wolfgang Hoppe

East German bobsledder and trainer

*November 14th, 1957, Apolda

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Born on April 17th, 1957
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1957 is a normal year and no leap year.

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