October 17, 2024

October 17, 2024, was a Thursday. It was one month ago. The zodiac star sign for this date is Libra.

Facts

This date occurred 31 days ago. It was the 291st day of 2024, in week 42. The decade was the 2020s. A baby that was born on this day is now 4 weeks old.

Zodiac

Zodiac, birthstone, and birth flower information.

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Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on October 17, 2024, will have the star sign Libra.
Zodiac Element: Air.
Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 2024 is the year of the Dragon (Yang Earth).
The Life Path Number for this date is 8.
Native American Zodiac: October 17, 2024 falls under the Raven.
Birthstone: A person during the month of October will have the birthstones Tourmaline and Opal.
Birth flower (October): The Marigold and the Cosmos.

Personality traits

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What happened around this time?

News stories, pop culture trends, and other events that happened around October 17, 2024.

September 17, 2024:
• Sean "Diddy" Combs is charged with sex-trafficking and racketeering.
• Lebanon: Nine are killed and over 2,750 are wounded after thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah explode simultaneously.
September 18, 2024:
• Former Italian soccer player Salvatore "Toto" Schillaci dies at 59.
• 9 are killed and hundreds injured after walkie talkies begin exploding in Lebanon.
September 21, 2024: 51 people are killed in a coal mine explosion in Tabas, South Khorasan Province, Iran.
September 22, 2024: Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill more than 400 people.
September 25, 2024:
• Soccer: Raphaël Varane announces his retirement at the age of 31.
• New York City Mayor Eric Adams is indicted on federal charges following multiple corruption probes.
• The wrestling documentary TV series "Mr. McMahon" is released on Netflix.
September 26, 2024: Hurricane Helene hits the United States.
September 27, 2024:
• The video game "EA Sports FC 25" is released.
• British actress Maggie Smith passes away at the age of 89.
• Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon.
• The film Megalopolis is released.
September 28, 2024: US country singer Kris Kristofferson dies aged 88.
September 30, 2024:
• Hamas says that its leader in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amine, has been killed by an Israeli airstrike.
• Israel begins "targeted ground raids" in Lebanon.
• Former NBA player Dikembe Mutombo dies from brain cancer at the age of 58.
• Former Major League Baseball player Pete Rose dies aged 83.
• The PlayStation Network experiences a global outage.
• The death toll from Hurricane Helene reaches 100.
October 1, 2024:
• Tim Walz and JD Vance take part in a vice-presidential debate.
• Andres Iniesta retires from professional football.
• Iran launches 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.
• The 2024 United States port strike begins.
• TikTok influencer Mr Prada (Terryon Thomas) is arrested on suspicion of murder in Dallas, Texas.
• Israel invades Southern Lebanon.
October 3, 2024: Dockworkers agree to suspend the 2024 United States port strike after their contracts are extended to January 2025.
October 4, 2024: The film "Joker: Folie à Deux" is released.
October 5, 2024: Elon Musk joins Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
October 6, 2024: The death toll from Hurricane Helene rises to 227.
October 8, 2024:
• The authorities ask millions of people in Florida to leave their homes before Hurricane Milton arrives.
• The US Supreme Court rejects R. Kelly's appeal.
• The Office actress Jenna Fischer reveals that she was diagnosed with breast cancer 11 months prior.
October 9, 2024: Hurricane Milton dips to Category 3 before it makes landfall in Florida.
October 10, 2024: Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida.
October 11, 2024:
• National Geographic magazine reports that human remains found on Mount Everest belong to Briton Andrew Irvine, a famous climber who went missing in 1924.
• R. Kelly's daughter, Buku Abi, accuses him of sexually abusing her as a child.
October 12, 2024: It is reported that Donald Trump's campaign team worked with X (Twitter) to keep a leaked file about JD Vance off its platform.
October 13, 2024: SpaceX catches its Starship rocket booster for the first time.
October 16, 2024:
• Soccer: Thomas Tuchel is appointed as the new manager of England.
• One Direction singer Liam Payne (31) dies after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.
• Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is killed in an airstrike in Gaza.
This date: October 17, 2024
October 18, 2024: The horror film "Smile 2" is released.
October 22, 2024: An FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect.
October 23, 2024:
• Seven people are killed in a terrorist attack at an aerospace firm in Ankara, Turkey.
• The true crime documentary "This Is the Zodiac Speaking" is released on Netflix.
October 24, 2024: Rapper Lil Durk is arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.
October 25, 2024: The video game "Call of Duty: Black Ops 6" is released.
October 26, 2024: Israel launches a wave of strikes against Iranian military sites.
October 28, 2024:
• Soccer: Manchester United sack Erik ten Hag.
• Georgia's president, Salome Zourabichvili, says that she does not recognize the disputed results of her country's recent parliamentary vote.
• Soccer: Manchester City's Rodri wins the 2024 Ballon d'Or award.
October 29, 2024:
• Tropical Storm Trami leaves more than 150 people dead in the Philippines.
• More than 60 people die after Spain is hit by flash floods.
• Actress Teri Garr dies aged 79.
October 31, 2024: Rapper Young Thug pleads guilty to gang, drug, and gun charges.
November 1, 2024:
• Spanish floods: The death toll in Valencia rises to 200.
• Charli XCX's "Brat" is chosen as the Collins Dictionary word of the year.
• Soccer: Ruben Amorim is appointed as the new head coach of Manchester United.
• 14 people die after a concrete canopy collapses at the main railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia.
November 3, 2024:
• American record producer and composer Quincy Jones dies aged 91.
• Dexys Midnight Runners founding member Andy Leek dies aged 66.
November 4, 2024: A volcano named Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupts in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 10 people.
November 5, 2024:
• Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States.
• The price of Bitcoin reaches an all-time high.
• Nvidia passes Apple to become the world's most valuable company.
November 6, 2024: Candyman and Final Destination actor Tony Todd dies from stomach cancer at the age of 69.
November 10, 2024: The price of Bitcoin surges to new highs following Donald Trump's election.
November 11, 2024:
• Richard Allen is found guilty of the murders of teenagers Liberty "Libby" German and Abigail "Abby" Williams.
• A man is arrested in connection with the 1995 disappearance of Jo Jo Dullard.
• It is announced that Gary Lineker will be stepping down from "Match of the Day" after more than 25 years.
November 12, 2024: Donald Trump announces that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead his new "Department of Government Efficiency".
November 15, 2024: Boxing: Jake Paul defeats Mike Tyson.

TV series on October 17, 2024

People in October 2024 were watching the following TV series:

The Family Stallone

The Night Agent

The Last of Us

House of the Dragon

The Bear

The Kardashians

Severance

The Wheel of Time

Only Murders in the Building

The White Lotus

Cobra Kai

Bridgerton

Cartoons and children's TV shows in October 2024

Children and teenagers were watching the following cartoons and TV series:

Rock Paper Scissors

Pretty Freekin Scary

Transformers: EarthSpark

Monster High

The Tiny Chef Show

Chibiverse

Face's Music Party

The Villains of Valley View

Baby Shark's Big Show!

Tyler Perry's Young Dylan

The Adventures of Paddington

Toys in 2024

Children were playing with the following toys and games:

The PlayStation 5

The Xbox Series X

Video games

Popular video games that people were playing in October 2024.

Starfield

Diablo IV

Celebrity birthdays

Celebrities, historical figures, and other notable people who were born on October 17.

Evel Knievel

Stunt performer Deceased
Born on October 17, 1938
He was not alive on this date.

Norm Macdonald

Comedian Deceased
Born on October 17, 1959
He was not alive on this date.

Ziggy Marley

Musician
Born on October 17, 1968
He turned 56 on this day in 2024.

Wyclef Jean

Singer
Born on October 17, 1969
He turned 55 on this day in 2024.

Nancy Sullivan

Actress
Born on October 17, 1969
She turned 55 on this day in 2024.

Chris Kirkpatrick

NSYNC
Born on October 17, 1971
He turned 53 on this day in 2024.

Eminem

Rap singer
Born on October 17, 1972
He turned 52 on this day in 2024.

Simon Harris

Irish politician
Born on October 17, 1986
He turned 38 on this day in 2024.

Charles Oliveira

Brazilian MMA fighter
Born on October 17, 1989
He turned 35 on this day in 2024.

US President

Joe Biden was the President of the United States on October 17, 2024.

UK Prime Minister

Keir Starmer was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Irish Taoiseach

Simon Harris was the Taoiseach of Ireland.

Conception dates

Conception estimates for this date.

Note: These conception dates are based on broad estimates.

A baby that was born on October 17, 2024 was most likely conceived around January 25, 2024.
The due date for a baby that was conceived on October 17, 2024 is close to July 10, 2025.

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Statistics

Here are some interesting statistics about October 17, 2024:

31 days have passed since this date.
4 weeks have passed.
2,682,000 seconds have passed since October 17, 2024.
If you were born on this day, your heart has beat approximately 3,129,000 times.
Since then, the Earth has traveled approximately 1,383,912,000 miles through space.
If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 447,000 times.
You have taken approximately 230,652 steps. That's roughly 103 miles.
32,184 meteors have entered the Earth's atmosphere.
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