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.
- 1583 –Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeats the troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
- 1586 –Emperor Go-Yozei becomes Emperor of Japan.
- 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.
- 1907 –Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
- 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.
- 1935 –First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
- 1947 –First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
- 1950 –The F-86 Sabre’s first mission over Korea.
- 1957 –The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1983 –The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
- 1989 –Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timişoara with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party’s District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
- 2003 –SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
- 2005 –Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
- 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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