About December 17
December 17, 2023 is the 351st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 14 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 55 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 17
- 942 –Assassination of William I of Normandy.
- 1538 –Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
- 1718 –Great Britain declares war on Spain.
- 1790 –Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
- 1807 –France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
- 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.
- 1926 –Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
- 1927 –Indian revolutionary Rajendranath Lahiri was hanged to death in Gonda jail of U.P. in India 2 days before the scheduled date.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
- 1947 –First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
- 1950 –The F-86 Sabre’s first mission over Korea.
- 1960 –1960 Munich Convair 340 crash: 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
- 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.
- 1970 –Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
- 1983 –The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
- 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.
- 2009 –MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
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