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October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 75 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 539 BC – Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile. Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Yehud Medinata and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
• 456 – Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats the Roman usurper Avitus near Piacenza (Northern Italy) .
• 1091 – London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
• 1346 – Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
• 1448 – Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
• 1456 – The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia).
• 1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
• 1600 – Battle of Sekigahara in Japan, granting Tokugawa Ieyasu nominal control over the whole country.
• 1604 – Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
• 1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
• 1660 – Nine regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
• 1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
• 1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1800 – Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
• 1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
• 1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
• 1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
• 1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
• 1905 – The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
• 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
• 1912 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
• 1917 – First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
• 1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
• 1931 – Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
• 1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
• 1941 – For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
• 1941 – German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
• 1943 – Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Sobibor extermination camp is closed.
• 1945 – A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. It calls "el día de la lealtad peronista" (peronista loyalty day)
• 1945 – Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King Georgios II to Greece.
• 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
• 1956 – Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.
• 1961 – Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
• 1964 – Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
• 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
• 1966 – A fire at a building in New York City kills 12 firefighters, the fire department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• 1966 – Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
• 1970 – Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
• 1973 – OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
• 1977 – German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.
• 1979 – Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
• 1980 – As part of the Holy See – United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
• 1989 – 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
• 1992 – Having gone to the wrong house for a Halloween party, Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori is shot and killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
• 1998 – At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
• 2000 – Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
• 2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
• 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 56 metres (184 ft) and become the world's tallest highrise.

Births

• 1253 – Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303)
• 1577 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
• 1577 – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
• 1582 – Johann Gerhard, German theologian (d. 1637)
• 1623 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
• 1688 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726)
• 1711 – Jupiter Hammon, American poet (d. 1806)
• 1719 – Jacques Cazotte, French author (d. 1792)
• 1720 – Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian composer (d. 1795)
• 1725 – John Wilkes, English radical, journalist, and politician. (d. 1797)
• 1729 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer (d. 1817)
• 1760 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
• 1811 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor (d. 1876)
• 1813 – Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
• 1814 – Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888)
• 1817 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian educator and politician (d. 1898)
• 1853 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
• 1864 – Elinor Glyn, English author and scriptwriter (d. 1943)
• 1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (d. 1966)
• 1886 – Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1890 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
• 1892 – Theodor Eicke, German SS general (d. 1943)
• 1892 – Herbert Howells, English composer (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
• 1898 – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971)
• 1900 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
• 1906 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969)
• 1909 – Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Ester Wier, American author (d. 2000)
• 1912 – Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
• 1912 – Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founder of the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001)
• 1912 – Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
• 1914 – Jerry Siegel, American writer and illustrator (d. 1996)
• 1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Marsha Hunt, American actress
• 1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (d. 1987)
• 1918 – Ralph Wilson, American businessman
• 1919 – Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
• 1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
• 1920 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author (d. 2010)
• 1921 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish Poet (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Priscilla Buckley, American author (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Don Coryell, American football coach (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Anton Geiser, Yugoslav SS officer (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Julie Adams, American actress
• 1926 – Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (d. 2003)
• 1930 – Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author
• 1931 – Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author (d. 2012)
• 1933 – William Anders, American general and astronaut
• 1933 – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (d. 1985)
• 1934 – Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Rico Rodriguez, American trombonist
• 1935 – Sydney Chapman, English politician and architect
• 1936 – Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter
• 1936 – Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
• 1937 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor
• 1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle stuntman (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Les Murray, Australian poet
• 1940 – Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor
• 1940 – Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
• 1940 – Peter Stringfellow, English nightclub owner
• 1941 – Earl Thomas Conley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 – Steve Jones, American basketball player
• 1942 – Gary Puckett, American singer-songwriter (Gary Puckett & The Union Gap)
• 1946 – Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2012)
• 1946 – Cameron Mackintosh, English theater producer
• 1946 – Adam Michnik, Polish historian
• 1946 – Drusilla Modjeska, English author
• 1946 – Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
• 1947 – Simi Garewal, Indian actress
• 1947 – Gene Green, American politician
• 1947 – Michael McKean, American actor
• 1948 – Robert Jordan, American author (d. 2007)
• 1948 – Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
• 1948 – George Wendt, American actor
• 1950 – Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
• 1950 – Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1951 – Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater
• 1951 – Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
• 1951 – Shari Ulrich, Canadian singer-songwriter (Hometown Band, The Pied Pumkin, and UHF)
• 1953 – Joseph Bowie, American trombonist (Defunkt)
• 1954 – Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
• 1955 – George Alogoskoufis, Greek economist and politician
• 1956 – Mae Jemison, American physician and astronaut
• 1956 – Pat McCrory, American politician
• 1957 – Lawrence Bender, American film producer
• 1957 – Steve McMichael, American football player
• 1957 – Vincent Van Patten, American actor
• 1958 – Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter
• 1959 – Ron Drummond, American author and scholar
• 1959 – Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian and actor
• 1959 – Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
• 1959 – Richard Roeper, American columnist and critic
• 1960 – Guy Henry, English actor
• 1960 – Rob Marshall, American director
• 1960 – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer and actress (The Nolans) (d. 2013)
• 1962 – Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
• 1963 – Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer
• 1963 – Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1964 – Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer
• 1965 – Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1966 – Danny Ferry, American basketball player
• 1966 – Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter, and author
• 1966 – Tommy Kendall, American race car driver
• 1967 – Kim Seung-jun, South Korean voice actor
• 1967 – René Dif, Danish singer and actor (Aqua)
• 1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor (Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers)
• 1969 – Ernie Els, South African golfer
• 1969 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor (Fugees)
• 1969 – Wood Harris, American actor
• 1969 – Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian
• 1970 – Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
• 1970 – John Mabry, American baseball player
• 1970 – Shauna O'Brien, American model and actress
• 1970 – Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, composer, and producer (Poison)
• 1971 – Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer, dancer, and voice actor ('N Sync)
• 1971 – Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player (Seigmen and Zeromancer)
• 1972 – Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor (D12, Outsidaz, and Bad Meets Evil)
• 1972 – Tarkan, German-Turkish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1972 – Sharon Leal, American actress
• 1972 – Joe McEwing, American baseball player
• 1973 – Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer
• 1974 – Ariel Levy, American author
• 1974 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
• 1974 – Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player (HIM)
• 1974 – John Rocker, American baseball player
• 1975 – Janne Aikala, Finnish murder victim (d. 1986)
• 1975 – Francis Bouillon, American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Vina Morales, Filipino singer,dancer,host,actress, and entrepreneur
• 1976 – Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
• 1977 – Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
• 1977 – Alimi Ballard, American actor
• 1977 – Bryan Bertino, American director and screenwriter
• 1977 – André Villas-Boas, Portuguese football manager
• 1978 – Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player
• 1978 – Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress
• 1979 – Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist (Stream of Passion and Elfonía)
• 1979 – Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist
• 1979 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
• 1979 – Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
• 1980 – Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
• 1980 – Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
• 1980 – Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver
• 1982 – Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer
• 1983 – Daniel Booko, American actor
• 1983 – Felicity Jones, British actress
• 1983 – Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
• 1983 – Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
• 1984 – Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
• 1984 – Chris Lowell, American actor
• 1984 – Randall Munroe, American cartoonist
• 1985 – Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1985 – Collins John, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – Baran Kosari, Iranian actress
• 1985 – Max Irons, English actor
• 1987 – Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress
• 1987 – Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
• 1988 – Christina Crawford, American wrestler and dancer
• 1988 – Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor
• 1988 – Yuko Oshima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48 and Not Yet)
• 1990 – Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
• 1990 – Bianca Bree, Belgian-American actress
• 1992 – Sam Concepcion, Filipino singer, dancer, and actor

Deaths

• 33 – Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus ⟨b. 14 BC⟩
• 532 – Pope Boniface II
• 1174 – Petronilla of Aragon (b. 1135)
• 1575 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
• 1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier and soldier (b. 1554)
• 1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
• 1616 – John Pitts, English scholar (b. 1560)
• 1660 – Adrian Scrope, English military officer (b. 1601)
• 1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician (b. 1630)
• 1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
• 1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
• 1780 – William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
• 1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter (b. 1723)
• 1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian military leader and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
• 1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
• 1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
• 1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
• 1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
• 1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
• 1889 – Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
• 1893 – Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, President of France (b. 1808)
• 1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and abolitionist (b. 1819)
• 1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
• 1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1937 – J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman, survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1862)
• 1938 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German theoretician (b. 1854)
• 1943 – Stefan Starzyński, Polish economist and politician (b. 1893)
• 1956 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
• 1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
• 1958 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (b. 1865)
• 1965 – Bart King, Filipino cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1966 – Sidney Hatch, American runner (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Wieland Wagner, German director (b. 1917)
• 1967 – Puyi, Chinese emperor of China (b. 1906)
• 1970 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian lawyer, journalist, and politician (b. 1921)
• 1970 – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1970 – Quincy Wright, American political scientist (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
• 1972 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Billy Williams, American singer (The Charioteers) (b. 1910)
• 1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
• 1978 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
• 1979 – S. J. Perelman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1979 – John Stuart, Scottish actor (b. 1898)
• 1981 – Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
• 1983 – Raymond Aron, French philosopher (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (Savatage) (b. 1963)
• 1996 – Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966)
• 1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
• 2001 – Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and pianist (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli general and politician (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Derek Bell, Irish pianist and songwriter (The Chieftains) (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
• 2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Ba Jin, Chinese author (b. 1904)
• 2006 – Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Suzy Covey, American scholar (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Levi Stubbs, American singer and actor (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
• 2008 – Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Norma Fox Mazer, American children's author (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916)
• 2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Frank Moore Cross, American scholar and academic (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Bandya Kakade, Indian footballer (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1936)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Catervus
  • Ignatius of Antioch
  • Marguerite Marie Alacoque (formerly)
  • Rule of Andrew
  • Richard Gwyn
  • October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Dessalines Day (Haiti)
• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (International)
• Loyalty Day (Argentina)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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