What happened onOctober 17, 42 BCThursday

755,288days agoThat is 2 millenniums, 6 decades, 9 years, 3 months, 1 week and 6 days.
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  2. ⚽ FIFA World Cup 2030
  3. 🗳️ Next U.S. presidential election
  4. 🎮 GTA VI release
  5. ⚠️ U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran
  6. 🤖 Release of ChatGPT
  7. ⚔️ Russia invades Ukraine
  8. 😷 COVID-19 pandemic
  9. 💂 Brexit referendum
  10. 📉 2008 financial crisis
  11. ⚠️ September 11 attacks
  12. 💻 Windows 95 release
  13. 🟥 Collapse of the Soviet Union
  14. 🧱 Fall of the Berlin Wall
  15. ☢️ Chernobyl disaster
  16. ⛽ 1973 oil crisis
  17. 🌕 Moon landing
  18. 🔫 JFK assassination
  19. 🚀 Sputnik launch
  20. 🕌 India gains independence
  21. ☢️ Hiroshima bombing
  22. ⚔️ World War II Starts
  23. 📉 Wall Street Crash
  24. ⚔️ World War I Starts