* A prayer for future prosperity ( 7: 14 – 17 ): The mood switches from a request for power to grateful astonishment at God's mercy.

* 1706 17 February – Queen Anne though not yet the legal ruler of the territory, declared Gibraltar a free port ( upon request of the Sultan of Morocco, who wanted Gibraltar being given this status in return for supplying the town )

After turning down Bantam's initial request, Probst responded to an Army request and commenced work, initially without salary, on July 17, 1940.

The Glock 18 is a selective-fire variant of the Glock 17, developed in 1987 at the request of the Austrian counter-terrorist unit EKO Cobra.

After the defeat at the general elections of 17 September 2006, Persson immediately filed a request for resignation, and declared his intentions to resign as party leader after a special party congress in March 2007.

On July 10, 2012 during contract negotiations over raising carrier rates the U. S. satellite TV provider, DirecTV's executives approached Viacom with a new proposal and a request to continue broadcasting 17 of Viacom's television networks ( including Nickelodeon, MTV, Logo, and Comedy Central ) during talks, but received no response and thus Viacom ceased transmission to DirecTV's 20 million subscribers.

The Irish general election of 2002 was held on Friday, 17 May 2002 just over three weeks after the dissolution of the 28th Dáil on Thursday 25 April by President Mary McAleese, at the request of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.

After a year's delay, on April 17, 2002, that request was denied.

On 17 March 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the newly elected President of Liberia, submitted an official request to Nigeria for Taylor's extradition.

The request was granted on December 17, but Democrats appealed to the Supreme Court.

); at the beginning of the Well song ( 21: 17 and following, " ali be ' er "); in the daring request, " Sun, stand thou still " ( Joshua 10: 12 ); in Habakkuk's prayer (" tefillah "; Habakkuk 3: 1-19 ); or in psalms of request for help in time of war ( 44, 60, etc.

On 17 February, Parliament's Conference of Presidents ( the President of the Parliament and the leaders of the political groups ) approved JURI's request to restart the process, and agreed to pass the request to the European Commission.

Chan disarms Lau without resistance and holds his Glock 17 to Lau's head, as a rebuke to Lau's plea for forgiveness and request to remain as a cop.

These heavy enemy contacts prompted Peers to request reinforcement and, as a result, on 17 June, two battalions of Brigadier General John R. Deane's 173rd Airborne Brigade were moved into the Đắk Tô area to begin sweeping the jungle-covered mountains in Operation Greeley.

On 17 January 1917, Murray received the request for one infantry division to be sent to France and dispatched the British 42nd Division.

At 17: 00 at the request of the Imperial Mounted Division, Chauvel sent back from the attack on Gaza, Royston's 3rd Light Horse Brigade less, the 10th Light Horse Regiment.

On June 17, 1947, Belgium requested his extradition from Argentina, however the Argentine Government ignored this request.

After the request was again ignored, Dedeic brought the matter to the Courts, eventually winning the dispute and having the MOC officially registered on 17 January 2000.

On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1989, the church was promoted to the title of minor basilica by Pope John Paul II, upon request by Paul Grégoire, cardinal archbishop of Montreal.

During the October 17, 2005 episode of Raw, Hurricane was assaulted by Kurt Angle at the request of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.

During the October 17 episode of Raw, The Hurricane was assaulted by Kurt Angle at the request of Vince McMahon.

Section 2 of the Canada Act, meanwhile, plainly states that no subsequent UK law " shall extend to Canada as part of its law ", while item 17 of its schedule also amends the Statute of Westminster removing the " request and consent " provision.

* 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.

The poor British performance in the early months of the war forced Asquith to invite the Conservatives into a coalition ( on 17 May 1915 ).

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

On November 18, von Hindenburg testified in front of this parliamentary commission, and cited a December 17, 1918 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article that summarized two earlier articles in the Daily Mail by British General Frederick Barton Maurice with the phrase that the German army had been ' dagger-stabbed from behind by the civilian populace ' (" von der Zivilbevölkerung von hinten erdolcht .").

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD ( 9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917 ), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman M. D.

The European Democratic Group ( ED ) was formed on 17 July 1979 by British Conservative, Danish Conservative and other MEPs after their success in the 1979 elections.

In 2009 British films grossed around $ 2 billion worldwide and achieved a market share of around 7 % globally and 17 % in the United Kingdom.

* 1891 17 March – America-bound steamer Utopia slammed in heavy weather into the iron-plated British battleship HMS Anson and sank in the Bay of Gibraltar ; 576 people died.

On the morning of Sunday 17 December 1967, Holt, friends Christopher Anderson, Jan Lee and George Illson and his two bodyguards drove down from Melbourne to see the British lone yachtsman Alec Rose sail through Port Phillip Heads in his boat Lively Lady to complete a leg of his solo circumnavigation of the globe, which started and ended in England.

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS ( 17 December 177829 May 1829 ) was a British chemist and inventor.

In Munster, the IRA carried out a significant number of successful actions against British troops, for instance the ambushing and killing of 17 of 18 Auxiliaries by Tom Barry's column at Kilmicheal in West Cork in November 1920, or Liam Lynch's men killing 13 British soldiers near Millstreet early in the next year.

* July 26, 1946 The bombing of British administrative headquarters at the King David Hotel, killing 91 people — 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 others.

Ribbentrop is also mentioned in the movie, The King's Speech, for sending the future British king's fiancée 17 carnations a day.

The town was later annexed to British India when Sindh was annexed by Major-General Charles James Napier at the Battle of Miani on 17 February 1843.

Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994 ) was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.

Mervyn Laurence Peake ( 9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968 ) was a British writer, artist, poet and illustrator.

* 1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash ; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

On 17 November 1834, the British amateur astronomer the Reverend Thomas John Hussey reported a conversation he had had with French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to George Biddell Airy, the British Astronomer Royal.