Template:On this day/October 17

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

October 17:

• 1995 – A group of over a dozen male Pensacola High School students, many on the Tigers football team, coerced a female student into performing oral sex on many of them in a school bathroom and locker room, leading to an alleged coverup by school officials.
• 2006 – The tax evasion trial of Kent Hovind and his wife Jo began.