All about October 17, 1974: Significant Events, Facts, Analysis and Date Notations

Facts about October 17, 1974:

• 17th October, 1974 falls on Thursday which is a Weekday.
• That was 42nd (Forty-second) week of year 1974.
• It's 289th (Two Hundred Eighty-ninth) Day of the year.
• There are 31 days in the month of October 1974. Checkout the days in other months of 1974 along with days in October 1974.
• Year 1974 has 365 days in total.
• The month October was 10th month of Year 1974.
• The month October is also known as Oktober, Actoobar, Actuber, Uktober, Oktower, oktobro, oktobro, october, Octobre, meno deka, Oktobra, otobre, Listopäts and tobul across the Globe.

• Country-wise Date Representation of October 17 across the World:

  Country Names	Notation of the Date	Long Date Format	Short Date Format
  The United States of America (USA)	MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian) and YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian)	October 17, 1974 and 1974 October 17	October 17
  Some U.S. Island Territories	MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian)	October 17, 1974	October 17
  Europe: Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Netherlands, and others North America: Mexico, various Caribbean islands Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, and others South America: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, and others North Africa: Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and others West, Central, and Southern Africa: Nigeria, Ethiopia, DRC, Tanzania, Sudan, Uganda, and others West Asia: Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and others Central Asia: Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan East and Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and others South Asia: Pakistan, Bangladesh Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and others	DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian)	17 October 1974	17 October
  China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hungary, Mongolia, Lithuania and Bhutan	YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian)	1974 October 17	October 17
  Bharat (India), Russia, Vietnam, Germany, Iran, France, United Kingdom, Myanmar, Spain, Poland, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cameroon, Sri Lanka, others	DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian) and YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian)	17 October 1974 and 1974 October 17	17 October and October 17
  Philippines, Malaysia, Somalia, Togo, Panama, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Greenland	DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian) and MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian)	17 October 1974 and October 17, 1974	17 October and October 17
  South Africa, Kenya, Canada, Ghana	MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian) and YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian) and DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian)	October 17, 1974 and 1974 October 17 and 17 October 1974	October 17 and 17 October

• Year 1974 was NOT a Leap Year.
  Note: In a Leap Year there are 366 days (a year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an intercalary day.), rest years have 365 days.
• Year 2028 will be the nearest future leap year.