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.
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Events:
- 283 - St. Gaius becomes Pope
- 1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England
- 1869 - Suez Canal opens
- 1903 - First powered flight, by the Wright Brothers.
- 1941 - Nazi siege of Sevastopol begins
- 1961 - India seizes Goa from Portugal
- 1969 - 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
- 1973 - The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
- 1997 - A chartered Yakolev-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 third victim in his third incident.
- 2002 - Peace accord signed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Births:
- 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (+ 1827)
- 1778 - Humphry Davy, chemist
- 1799 - Titian Peale, artist
- 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, poet, abolitionist (+ 1892)
- 1830 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt (+ 1870)
- 1853 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor (+ 1917)
- 1872 - Mistinguett, actress, singer (+ 1956)
- 1873 - Ford Madox Ford, writer
- 1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada (+ 1950)
- 1893 - Erwin Piscator, film director (+ 1966)
- 1894 - Arthur Fiedler, conductor (+ 1979)
- 1894 - Hans Henny Jahnn, dramatist, narrator and essayist (+ 1959)
- 1901 - Lee Strasberg, actor, director, acting teacher (+ 1982)
- 1903 - Erskine Caldwell, author (+ 1987)
- 1906 - Soichiro Honda , automobile pioneer
- 1908 - Willard Frank Libby, physicist and chemist, inventor of radiocarbon dating (+ 1980)
- 1916 - Shelby Foote, historian
- 1925 - Rock Hudson, actor (+ 1985)
- 1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, actor
- 1930 - Bob Mathias, athlete
- 1930 - Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse magazine
- 1931 - Constantin Freiheer von Heeremann, president of Germany's National Farmers' Union
- 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, musician
- 1939 - Eddie Kendricks, musician
- 1941 - Gene Clark, musician
- 1942 - Paul Butterfield, musician (+ 1987)
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton, model, actress
- 1944 - Jack L. Chalker, novelist
- 1944 - Danny DeVito, actor
- 1944 - Lorne Michaels, producer
- 1945 - Elvin Hayes, basketball star
- 1947 - Wes Studi, actor
- 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress
- 1975 - Milla Jovovich, acress, model
Deaths:
- 1273 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and sufi mystic
- 1558 - Queen Mary I of England
- 1830 - Simon Bolivar, South American politician and activist
- 1907 - William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, physicist
- 1909 - King Leopold II of Belgium
- 1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, writer
- 1987 - Irving Allen, producer
- 1992 - Dana Andrews, actor
- 1998 - Claudia Benton, child psychologist
- 1999 - Grover Washington Jr., musician
Holidays and Observances:
- Roman Empire - Saturnalia in honor of Saturn
See Also:
December 16 - December 18 - November 17 - January 17 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "December 17" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_17 December 17, 2003
