About December 17
December 17, 2024 is the 352nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 14 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 43 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 17
- 920 –Romanos I is crowned co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
- 1538 –Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
- 1583 –Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeats the troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
- 1600 –Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
- 1718 –Great Britain declares war on Spain.
- 1777 –France formally recognizes the United States of America.
- 1807 –France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
- 1812 –War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
- 1819 –Simón Bolívar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
- 1862 –American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
- 1865 –First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
- 1903 –The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 1919 –Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1928 –Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
- 1941 –World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
- 1960 –Troops loyal to Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
- 1983 –The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
- 1989 –Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timişoara with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party’s District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
- 2003 –The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
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