Explore 1917 historical events from 2000–2009.
Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and …
Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (born 1914)
René Ríos Boettiger, also known as Pepo, was a Chilean cartoonist, creator of the famous character Condorito. He has been credited as the most prominent Chilean graphic humorist of…
Pepo, Chilean cartoonist; creator of Condorito (born 1911)
Marc Reisner was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West.
Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (born 1948)
Eric Cuthbert Christmas was an English actor, with over 40 films and numerous television roles to his credit. He is probably best known for his role as Mr. Carter, the principal of…
Eric Christmas, English-born Canadian actor (born 1916)
Carmen Martín Gaite was a Spanish author who wrote many novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays across multiple genres. Her work has received significant recognition: in 195…
Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (born 1925)
Louis Quilico, was a Canadian opera singer. One of the leading dramatic baritones of his day, he was an ideal interpreter of the great Italian and French composers, especially Gius…
Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (born 1925)
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered many discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucro…
Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (born 1920)
Claude Sautet was a French film director and screenwriter.
Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (born 1924)
Ahmad Shamlou, also known under his pen name A. Bamdad was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. His initial poetr…
Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and journalist (born 1925)
Rudolf "Rudi" Faßnacht was a German football manager.
Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (born 1934)
John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, the box plot and for laying the foun…
John Tukey, American mathematician and academic (born 1915)
Gordon Solie was an American professional wrestling play-by-play announcer. He is best known for working for Georgia Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, US…
Gordon Solie, American sportscaster (born 1929)
Elián González Brotons is a Cuban engineer and politician. As a six-year-old child, he was at the center of a high-profile international custody dispute between members of his fami…
In a pre-dawn raid, U
Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch univer…
Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (born 1918)
Air Philippines Flight 541 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Air Philippines from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila to Francisco Bangoy International Air…
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashed in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled Faustina in English, had apparitions of Jesus C…
Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canon
Kenneth Robert Livingstone is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as the first…
Ken Livingstone took office as the first mayor of London
The Enschede fireworks disaster was a catastrophic fireworks explosion on 13 May 2000 in Enschede, Netherlands. The explosion killed 23 people, including four firefighters, and inj…
An explosion at a fireworks factory in Enschede, Netherlands, resulted in 23 deaths and approximately €450 million in da
The 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence in Istanbul, Turkey, between fans of English football team Leeds United and Turkish team Galatasaray on 5 April 2000, the day before the first…
Following the killing of two English football fans by Galatasaray supporters in the previous month, British and Turkish
William Jefferson Clinton is an American former politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he …
President Bill Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to 22 Asian Americans, mostly from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, f
Air France Flight 4590 was an international charter flight from Paris to New York. On 25 July 2000, a Concorde passenger jet operating the flight crashed shortly after takeoff, kil…
Air France Flight 4590 , a Concorde en route from Paris to New York, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 109…