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
- 1398 –Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud’s armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
- 1538 –Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
- 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.
- 1718 –Great Britain declares war on Spain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1927 –Indian revolutionary Rajendranath Lahiri was hanged to death in Gonda jail of U.P. in India 2 days before the scheduled date.
- 1935 –First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
- 1939 –World War II: Battle of the River Plate – The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1973 –Terrorism: 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
- 1997 –The United Kingdom commences its Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, which extends the state’s gun ban to include all handguns—with the exception of antique and show weapons.
- 2002 –Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
- 2005 –Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
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