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International relations The Kyodo news agency reports that the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo that could complicate relations with China and South Korea. (Reuters) 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, and Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, will meet at the sidelines of the ...
October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) ... Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (d. 2014) 1917 – Sumner Locke Elliott, ...
Weekend end date Film Gross Notes Ref; 1: January 5, 2014: Frozen: $19,575,525: Frozen reclaimed the #1 spot in its sixth overall weekend of release, and also became the first film since Avatar to take the top spot in its sixth weekend.
October 17: Dessalines Day in Haiti 1558 – Poczta Polska , the Polish postal service, was founded by order of King Sigismund II Augustus . 1604 – German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally bright star, now known as Kepler's Supernova , which had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus .
Politics and elections Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2014 Bulgarians vote in a snap election, following the resignation of a Socialist -led government in July; the number of parties in the National Assembly grows from four to eight, and the centre-right GERB becomes the biggest party but falls short of an overall majority. Voter turnout is just about 50%, lower than at any time since the ...
October 3 – The United States Department of Labor reports that in September 2014, employers added 248,000 new jobs to the U.S. economy, setting the unemployment rate to 5.9%, the lowest since July 2008 at the onset of the Great Recession. [219] [220] [221]
Late on October 16, the extratropical system crossed the International Date Line. [38] The storm split into two systems south of the Alaska Peninsula during the afternoon of October 17; however, the low that constituted Vongfong's remnants was absorbed into the new storm only a few hours later, early on October 18. [39] [40]
Hurricane Gonzalo was the second tropical cyclone, after Hurricane Fay, to directly strike the island of Bermuda in a one-week time frame in October 2014, and was the first Category 4 Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Ophelia in 2011. At the time, it was the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic since Igor in 2010. [1]