December 17
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December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 14 days remaining.
Events
- 283 - St Gaius becomes Pope.
- 384 - St Siricius becomes Pope.
- 1586 - The reign of Emperor Go-Yozei, the 107th imperial ruler of Japan, begins.
- 1637 - The Shimabara Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
- 1777 - France becomes the first nation to recognize the United States of America
- 1843 - "A Christmas Carol", a fictional short story by Charles Dickens, is first published.
- 1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
- 1903 - First powered flight, by the Wright Brothers.
- 1919 - Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
- 1939 - German battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff at the Battle of the River Plate.
- 1941 - German siege of Sevastopol begins
- 1944 - Western Defense Command issues proclamation ending requirement of Japanese internment.
- 1944 - In what became known as the Malmédy massacre, around 80 American POW are executed by Waffen-SS troops of Jochen Peiper’s Kampfgruppe.
- 1961 - India seizes Goa from Portugal
- 1961 - A fire at a circus in Niteroi, Brazil kills 323 people.
- 1967 - Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria
- 1969 - The U.S. Air Force announces that its UFO investigations have found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
- 1969 - SALT I talks begin
- 1970 - My Lai trial begins
- 1970 - Coastal cities events Mass riots in the coastal cities of Poland ended in massacre of shipyard workers in Gdynia
- 1973 - The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
- 1982 - Tootsie opens in theaters, starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, and Geena Davis.
- 1989 - The first episode of The Simpsons airs on the Fox network
- 1989 - Brazil holds its first free election in 25 years.
- 1989 - Full-scale street manifestations and riots in Timisoara ignite the Romanian Revolution
- 1997 - A chartered Yakovlev-42 from Ukraine crashes into the mountains near Katerini, Greece killing 70
- 1998 - Claudia Benton is murdered in her West University, Texas home by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is his fifth murder victim in his fourth incident.
- 2002 - A peace accord is signed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 2003 - First supersonic flight by Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
- 2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the third and final Lord of the Rings movie opens in theaters.
Births
- 1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan
- 1619 - Prince Rupert, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
- 1632 - Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)
- 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
- 1778 - Humphry Davy, chemist (d. 1829)
- 1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, novelist (d. 1865)
- 1799 - Titian Peale, artist (d. 1885)
- 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
- 1830 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
- 1853 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor (d. 1917)
- 1872 - Mistinguett, actress, singer (d. 1956)
- 1873 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
- 1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
- 1892 - Sam Barry, basketball coach (d. 1950)
- 1893 - Erwin Piscator, film director (d. 1966)
- 1894 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
- 1894 - Hans Henny Jahnn, writer (d. 1959)
- 1901 - Lee Strasberg, actor, director, and acting teacher (d. 1982)
- 1903 - Erskine Caldwell, author (d. 1987)
- 1903 - Ray Noble, musician {d. 1978}
- 1906 - Simo Häyhä, sniper (d. 2002)
- 1908 - Willard Frank Libby, physicist and chemist (d. 1980)
- 1911 - André Claveau, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner (d. 2003)
- 1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald, writer (d. 2000)
- 1929 - William Safire, columnist
- 1929 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (d. 1993)
- 1930 - Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher
- 1930 - Bob Mathias, athlete
- 1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, actor
- 1931 - Constantin Freiheer von Heeremann, German farmer and union leader
- 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, musician
- 1938 - Peter Snell, New Zealand athlete
- 1939 - Eddie Kendricks, musician
- 1941 - Gene Clark, musician
- 1942 - Paul Butterfield, musician (d. 1987)
- 1943 - Ron Geesin, musician
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton, model and actress
- 1944 - Jack L. Chalker, novelist
- 1944 - Lorne Michaels, producer
- 1944 - Bernard Hill, actor
- 1945 - Elvin Hayes, basketball star
- 1945 - Ernie Hudson, actor
- 1947 - Wes Studi, actor
- 1951 - Ken Hitchcock, hockey coach
- 1955 - Brad Davis, basketball player
- 1968 - Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
- 1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
- 1973 - Paula Radcliffe, runner
- 1975 - Nick Dinsmore, professional wrestler
- 1975 - Milla Jovovich, actress and model
- 1976 - Takeo Spikes, American football player
- 1979 - William Green, American football player
Deaths
- 1187 - Pope Gregory VIII
- 1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
- 1273 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and sufi mystic (b. 1207)
- 1663 - Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
- 1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
- 1812 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling
- 1830 - Simón Bolívar, Latin American politician and activist (b. 1783)
- 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, English physicist (b. 1824)
- 1909 - King Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
- 1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, physician
- 1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, writer (b. 1893)
- 1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
- 1987 - Irving Allen, producer
- 1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, novelist (b. 1903)
- 1992 - Dana Andrews, actor (b. 1909)
- 1998 - Claudia Benton, child psychologist
- 1999 - Grover Washington Jr., musician (b. 1943)
- 2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
Holidays and observances
External links
December 16 - December 18 - November 17 - January 17 -- listing of all days
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