About April 17
April 17, 2024 is the 108th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 258 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 287 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.
- 1080 –King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
- 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.
- 1524 –Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
- 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.
- 1797 –Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.
- 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.
- 1897 –The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
- 1905 –The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the “right to free contract” is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
- 1942 –French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
- 1944 –Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People’s Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
- 1945 –Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
- 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.
- 1964 –Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
- 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.
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