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December 17 is the 351^st (352^nd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 14 days remaining until the end of the year.

General

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  1398 – Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur
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  1637 - Buddhist statues of Jizō, the bosatsu of mercy, beheaded by rebelling Christians at the start of the Shimabara Rebellion
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  1770 - Beethoven house of birth in Bonn/Germany, Bonngasse
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  1788 - Victory of Ochakiv
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  1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
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  1819 – Simón Bolívar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
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  1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
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  1837 – Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.
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  1903 - Kitty Hawk, NC - First flight, Orville Wright at controls. Distance, 120 feet. Time, 12 seconds
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  1926 – Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
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  1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane
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  1944 - Typhoon Cobra
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  1950 - Local voter invitation in the USSR
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  1960 - Munich Convair 340 crash
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  1972 - Apollo 17 astronaut Ronald E. Evans performs an extravehicular activity during the trans-Earth coast
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  1989 - The Simpsons airs its first half hour show as a Christmas special
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  2007 - Republic of Lakotah declares independence

Births

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  1961 - Sara Dallin
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  1975 - Milla Jovovich

Deaths

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  942 – Assassination of William I of Normandy
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  1656 - Quaker James Nayler (1618–1660) being the pilloried
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  2018 - Penny Marshall

Holidays and observances

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  O Sapientia
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  Advent on December 17

External links

• "On This Day". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved on 2015-06-22.