Thursday April 17, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, month, and days ago
  • month since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1524
Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the “right to free contract” is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
The People’s Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People’s Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.

Who were born on ?

Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (d. 1939)
Art Acord, American actor and rodeo rider (d. 1931)
Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive
Robert Miller, American art dealer (d. 2011)
Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress
Nick Hornby, English author
Sean Bean, English actor
Fabián Andrés Vargas, Colombian football player
Jed Lowrie, American baseball player

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