About April 17
April 17, 2023 is the 107th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 258 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 299 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 17
- 69 –After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor.
- 1397 –Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) the start of the book’s pilgrimage to Canterbury.
- 1492 –Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
- 1521 –Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
- 1555 –After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
- 1797 –Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.
- 1895 –The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
- 1941 –World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
- 1942 –French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
- 1946 –Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation.
- 1949 –At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
- 1951 –The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom’s first National Park.
- 1961 –Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
- 1964 –Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
- 1969 –Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
- 1969 –Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
- 1970 –Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
- 1971 –The People’s Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
- 1982 –Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
- 2006 –Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
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