About April 17
April 17, 2022 is the 107th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 258 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 280 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1986 –The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
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