About December 17
December 17, 2024 is the 352nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 14 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 43 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 17
- 1577 –Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.
- 1600 –Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
- 1807 –France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
- 1812 –War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
- 1819 –Simón Bolívar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
- 1865 –First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
- 1918 –Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
- 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.
- 1960 –1960 Munich Convair 340 crash: 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
- 1961 –Fire in the Gran Circus American in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the biggest tragedy in circus history.
- 1967 –Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and is presumed drowned.
- 1969 –Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings are generated as a result of “A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects.”
- 1969 –The SALT I talks begin.
- 1970 –Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
- 1973 –Terrorism: 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
- 1983 –The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
- 2003 –SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
- 2005 –Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicate the throne as King of Bhutan.
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