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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 until the end of the year.
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Advent on December 17
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942 – Assassination of William I of Normandy
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1398 – Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by w:Timur
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1637 - Buddhist statues of Jizō, the w:bosatsu of mercy, beheaded by rebelling Christians at the start of the w:Shimabara Rebellion
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1656 -Quaker James Nayler (1618–1660) being the pilloried
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Beethoven house of birth bonn inscription - 1770
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Victory of Ochakiv – 1788
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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 w: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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KITTY HAWK, NC - 1903 - 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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Milla Jovovich born in 1975
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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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Republic of Lakotah declares independence in 2007
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