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Events on the 17th of December in history

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17 Dec 0283 St Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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17 Dec 0497 The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
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17 Dec 0546 Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
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17 Dec 0920 Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
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17 Dec 0942 Assassination of William I of Normandy.
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17 Dec 1398 Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
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17 Dec 1526 Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia
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17 Dec 1526 Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
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17 Dec 1538 Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
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17 Dec 1538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
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17 Dec 1572 Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
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17 Dec 1583 Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
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17 Dec 1586 Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.
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17 Dec 1587 Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands
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17 Dec 1600 Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
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17 Dec 1638 French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
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17 Dec 1718 War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
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17 Dec 1718 England declares war on Spain
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17 Dec 1728 Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue
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17 Dec 1745 Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland
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17 Dec 1777 George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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17 Dec 1777 American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.
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17 Dec 1777 France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
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17 Dec 1788 Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Och
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17 Dec 1790 Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
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17 Dec 1790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in M
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17 Dec 1791 New York City traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
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17 Dec 1792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Qu
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17 Dec 1798 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (William Blount, Tennessee) begins
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17 Dec 1807 Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
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17 Dec 1812 War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
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17 Dec 1813 The Sûreté Nationale, the national police force of France, is founded, headed by Eugène François Vidocq.
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17 Dec 1819 Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
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17 Dec 1819 Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain
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17 Dec 1821 Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
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17 Dec 1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire
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17 Dec 1835 Great Fire of New York: Fire levels lower Manhattan.
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17 Dec 1837 A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.
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17 Dec 1852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
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17 Dec 1860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
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17 Dec 1862 American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
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17 Dec 1862 General US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
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17 Dec 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
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17 Dec 1865 First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
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17 Dec 1865 Franz Schubert's "Unvolendete Symphony" premieres
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17 Dec 1875 Violent bread riots in Montr
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17 Dec 1885 France declares Madagascar a protectorate
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17 Dec 1887 Georges Feydeaus' "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris
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17 Dec 1892 First issue of Vogue is published
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17 Dec 1893 Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France
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17 Dec 1894 Cricket day 3 1T Australia vs England England 325 all out, 261 behind on 1st inning
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17 Dec 1895 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington DC
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17 Dec 1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Massachusetts)
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17 Dec 1896 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
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17 Dec 1900 1st prize of 100,000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
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17 Dec 1900 New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
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17 Dec 1902 Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist" premieres in Berlin
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17 Dec 1903 The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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17 Dec 1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
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17 Dec 1907 Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
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17 Dec 1907 Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
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17 Dec 1909 Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels
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17 Dec 1914 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
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17 Dec 1914 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
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17 Dec 1914 Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
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17 Dec 1918 Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
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17 Dec 1919 Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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17 Dec 1919 Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
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17 Dec 1920 AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
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17 Dec 1920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
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17 Dec 1920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
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17 Dec 1920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
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17 Dec 1920 American League votes to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are inthe league (The National League will do the same - 17 holdover spitballers in all)
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17 Dec 1922 Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate
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17 Dec 1923 Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic
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17 Dec 1924 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, New York
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17 Dec 1925 Colonel William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
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17 Dec 1925 Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
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17 Dec 1926 Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
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17 Dec 1926 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
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17 Dec 1926 German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
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17 Dec 1926 Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras
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17 Dec 1927 Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
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17 Dec 1927 US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
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17 Dec 1927 Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 minutes 8 fours
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17 Dec 1927 Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437
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17 Dec 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.
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17 Dec 1928 John McGraw backs National League president John Heydler's designated hitter idea
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17 Dec 1932 Cardinals trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree & Ownie Carroll
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17 Dec 1933 NFL starts keeping official statistics as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in championship game
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17 Dec 1933 B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, England vs India at Bombay
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17 Dec 1933 Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)
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17 Dec 1933 Spain's 2nd Government of Lerroux forms
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17 Dec 1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
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17 Dec 1936 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
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17 Dec 1936 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy, make their radio debut on Rudy Vallee
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17 Dec 1938 Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
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17 Dec 1938 Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
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17 Dec 1939 World War II: Battle of the River Plate – The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
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17 Dec 1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
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17 Dec 1940 British troops occupies Sollum
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17 Dec 1941 World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
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17 Dec 1941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
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17 Dec 1941 Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
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17 Dec 1941 German submarine U-31 sunk
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17 Dec 1942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals
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17 Dec 1943 All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States with the repealing of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
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17 Dec 1943 Transport 63 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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17 Dec 1944 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
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17 Dec 1944 US Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast
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17 Dec 1944 World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
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17 Dec 1944 M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
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17 Dec 1944 US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast; Japanese-Americans are released from detention camps
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17 Dec 1944 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
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17 Dec 1944 US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
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17 Dec 1946 US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico
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17 Dec 1946 Bradman & Barnes complete 405 run 5th wicket stand, score 234 ea
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17 Dec 1947 New York struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
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17 Dec 1947 First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
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17 Dec 1947 WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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17 Dec 1949 "Regina" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 86 performances
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17 Dec 1949 Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
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17 Dec 1950 The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
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17 Dec 1951 The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
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17 Dec 1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
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17 Dec 1953 Dmitri Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
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17 Dec 1953 FCC approves RCA's black & white-compatible color TV specifications
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17 Dec 1954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
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17 Dec 1954 WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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17 Dec 1957 The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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17 Dec 1957 US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
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17 Dec 1959 "On The Beach, " is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
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17 Dec 1959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
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17 Dec 1960 "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 performances
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17 Dec 1960 "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 448 performances
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17 Dec 1960 Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
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17 Dec 1960 1960 Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
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17 Dec 1960 Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio" premieres
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17 Dec 1961 Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
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17 Dec 1961 Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
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17 Dec 1961 Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
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17 Dec 1961 Disgruntled employee set fire to a Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro circus tent in Niteroi Brazil; 323 die
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17 Dec 1961 India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
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17 Dec 1962 Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places)
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17 Dec 1962 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
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17 Dec 1963 Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
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17 Dec 1963 West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
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17 Dec 1965 Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
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17 Dec 1965 Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes concert
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17 Dec 1965 British government proclaims end of oil-embargo against Rhodesia
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17 Dec 1965 David Levy begins his search for comets
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17 Dec 1965 Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine
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17 Dec 1967 Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
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17 Dec 1967 WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Dec 1969 The SALT I talks begin.
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17 Dec 1969 Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
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17 Dec 1969 50 million TV viewers see singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
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17 Dec 1969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
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17 Dec 1970 Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
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17 Dec 1970 Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
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17 Dec 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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17 Dec 1971 "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US
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17 Dec 1971 Cease-fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
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17 Dec 1971 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
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17 Dec 1971 "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US
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17 Dec 1972 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
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17 Dec 1972 WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
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17 Dec 1973 Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.
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17 Dec 1973 Arab terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
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17 Dec 1975 1st time New York Islanders shut-out New York Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
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17 Dec 1975 John Paul Stevens appointed to the Supreme Court
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17 Dec 1975 Lynette Fromme is sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life
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17 Dec 1976 Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
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17 Dec 1977 Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st US TV appearance (SNL)
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17 Dec 1977 Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia vs India at the WACA, aged 41
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17 Dec 1977 Elvis Costello & The Attractions 1st US TV appearance (Saturday Night Live)
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17 Dec 1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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17 Dec 1978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
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17 Dec 1978 OPEC raises oil prices 18%
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17 Dec 1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
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17 Dec 1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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17 Dec 1980 Mauritania provisional constitution published
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17 Dec 1981 American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
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17 Dec 1981 Members of the Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier-General James L Dozier
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17 Dec 1983 "Peg" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 5 performances
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17 Dec 1983 Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London, England, United Kingdom. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
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17 Dec 1983 Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured
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17 Dec 1983 Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
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17 Dec 1984 New Jersey Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
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17 Dec 1984 New Jersey Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minnesota, 2-0
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17 Dec 1986 US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
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17 Dec 1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
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17 Dec 1986 US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
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17 Dec 1987 Final Fantasy is released in Japan on the Famicon, marking the start of the Final Fantasy series and saving Square from bankruptcy.
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17 Dec 1987 Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Hus
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17 Dec 1988 Bryan Murray becomes the 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Washington Capitals)
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17 Dec 1988 New York Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
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17 Dec 1988 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
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17 Dec 1988 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
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17 Dec 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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17 Dec 1989 Patti Rizzo / Mike Hill wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
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17 Dec 1989 Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
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17 Dec 1989 Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
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17 Dec 1989 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
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17 Dec 1989 Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president
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17 Dec 1989 Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 South Africa vs Western Australia)
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17 Dec 1990 KTBN, Salt Lake City UT, begins short-wave radio transmissions
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17 Dec 1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
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17 Dec 1991 NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
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17 Dec 1991 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 points
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17 Dec 1991 Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
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17 Dec 1992 "Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
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17 Dec 1992 General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
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17 Dec 1993 Bangladesh moslems call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
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17 Dec 1993 Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 meter (1:12.54)
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17 Dec 1993 Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
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17 Dec 1993 Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
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17 Dec 1994 KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
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17 Dec 1995 "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 23 performances
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17 Dec 1997 The British Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 comes into force, banning all handguns with the exception of antique and show weapons.
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17 Dec 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.
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17 Dec 2003 The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, England, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
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17 Dec 2003 SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
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17 Dec 2005 Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
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17 Dec 2005 Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan.
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17 Dec 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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17 Dec 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
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17 Dec 2013 The anti-corruption operation in Turkey begins with high profile detainments.
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17 Dec 2014 The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them 55 years ago.
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