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
- 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.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 –Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
- 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.
- 1971 –The People’s Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
- 1975 –The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
- 1982 –Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
- 1984 –Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People’s Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
- 1986 –The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
- 2006 –Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
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