
December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 14 days remaining. ==Events== *283 - Pope Gaius becomes Pope. *384 - Pope Siricius becomes Pope. *1586 - The reign of Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, the 107th Emperor of Japan of Japan, began. *1637 - The Shimabara Rebellion broke out in Japan. *1777 - France became the first nation to recognize the United States of America *1830 - Santa Marta, Colombia Simon Bolivar dies. *1843 - ''A Christmas Carol'', a fictional short story by Charles Dickens, was first published. *1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issued 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 Convention copyright treaty. *1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3. *1939 - German battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff at the Battle of the River Plate. *1941 - Germany siege of Sevastopol begins *1944 - Western Defense Command issues proclamation ending requirement of Japanese internment. * 1944 - In 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, Brazil kills 323 people. *1967 - Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) disappeared swimming near Portsea, Victoria *1969 - U.S. Air Force announces that its Unidentified flying object investigations have found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft. * 1969 - SALT I treaty begin *1970 - My Lai massacre 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 DSM-IV. *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 FOX * 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 Yak-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 - Peace accord signed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. *2003 - First supersonic flight by Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne * 2003 - ''The Return of the King (movie)'' is the third and final ''The Lord of the Rings'' movie to open in theaters. ==Births== *1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan *1619 - Prince Rupert, Royalist commander in the English Civil War *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), 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) *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, American physicist (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== *National Day in Bhutan (1907) *Roman Empire - Saturnalia, in honor of Cronus, began. == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/17 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 16 - December 18 - November 17 - January 17 -- historical anniversaries la:17 Decembris nds:17 Dezember
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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 - Pope Gaius becomes Pope. *384 - Pope Siricius becomes Pope. *1586 - The reign of Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, the 107th Emperor of Japan of Japan, began. *1637 - The Shimabara Rebellion broke out in Japan. *1777 - France became the first nation to recognize the United States of America *1830 - Santa Marta, Colombia Simon Bolivar dies. *1843 - ''A Christmas Carol'', a fictional short story by Charles Dickens, was first published. *1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issued 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 Convention copyright treaty. *1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3. *1939 - German battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff at the Battle of the River Plate. *1941 - Germany siege of Sevastopol begins *1944 - Western Defense Command issues proclamation ending requirement of Japanese internment. * 1944 - In 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, Brazil kills 323 people. *1967 - Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) disappeared swimming near Portsea, Victoria *1969 - U.S. Air Force announces that its Unidentified flying object investigations have found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft. * 1969 - SALT I treaty begin *1970 - My Lai massacre 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 DSM-IV. *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 FOX * 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 Yak-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 - Peace accord signed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. *2003 - First supersonic flight by Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne * 2003 - ''The Return of the King (movie)'' is the third and final ''The Lord of the Rings'' movie to open in theaters. ==Births== *1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan *1619 - Prince Rupert, Royalist commander in the English Civil War *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), 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) *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, American physicist (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== *National Day in Bhutan (1907) *Roman Empire - Saturnalia, in honor of Cronus, began. == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/17 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 16 - December 18 - November 17 - January 17 -- historical anniversaries la:17 Decembris nds:17 Dezember
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