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Historical Events

17 Dec 1526
Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia
17 Dec 1526
Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
17 Dec 1531
Pope Clement VII establishes a parallel body to the Inquisition in Lisbon Portugal
17 Dec 1572
Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
17 Dec 1587
The Earl of Leicesters army leaves Netherlands
17 Dec 1637
Shimabara Rebellion Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu
17 Dec 1638
French and Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
17 Dec 1718
France Britain and Austria declare war on Spain (War of the Quadruple Alliance 1720)
17 Dec 1728
Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan to build the citys first synagogue
17 Dec 1777
France recognizes independence of British colonies in America
17 Dec 1777
George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pennsylvania
17 Dec 1788
Russian army of Grigory Potemkin occupies Ocharov
17 Dec 1790
Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
17 Dec 1791
NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
17 Dec 1792
Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
17 Dec 1798
1st impeachment trial against a US senator (William Blount Tennessee) begins
17 Dec 1807
France issues the Milan Decree which confirms the Continental System.
17 Dec 1819
Congress of Angostura establishes Colombias independence from Spain
17 Dec 1836
Colonel William Light chooses the site for the settlement of Adelaide in South Australia
17 Dec 1860
Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
17 Dec 1887
Georges Feydeaus Tailleur Pour Dames premieres in Paris
17 Dec 1892
Tchaikovskis ballet Casse-noisette premieres in St Petersburg
17 Dec 1894
Cricket day 3 1T Australia v Engand England 325 all out 261 behind on 1st innings
17 Dec 1895
Anti-Saloon League of America formed Washington D.C.
17 Dec 1895
George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
17 Dec 1900
1st prize of 100000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy.
17 Dec 1900
New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing 1.5 million
17 Dec 1900
Pope Leo XIII closes the Holy Door of St Peters in Rome ending the Jubilee Year of
17 Dec 1902
Frank Wedekinds Der Erdgeist premieres in Berlin
17 Dec 1907
Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
17 Dec 1908
In Turkey the new parliament convenes with reformist Young Turks as the majority
17 Dec 1909
Leopold II king of Belgium died in Laeken after a reign of exactly 44 years
17 Dec 1912
Albanias de facto independence from the Ottoman Empire is recognized at the London Conference of Ambassadors
17 Dec 1914
Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
17 Dec 1914
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
17 Dec 1918
A conference of workers and soldiers councils take control of German government in Berlin until elections in January selects new national assembly
17 Dec 1919
Austrian parliament approves 8-hour working day
17 Dec 1920
AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
17 Dec 1920
British Empire receives League of Nations mandate over Nauru
17 Dec 1920
Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
17 Dec 1920
South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
17 Dec 1923
Greek king George II overthrown by armyrepublic
17 Dec 1924
1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service Bronx NY
17 Dec 1924
The Hamilton Tigers and Ottawa Senators battle out the first scoreless game in NHL history Jake Forbes (Hamilton) and Alex Connell (Ottawa) each record shutouts
17 Dec 1925
Colonel William Billy Mitchell court-martialed for insubordination
17 Dec 1926
German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
17 Dec 1926
KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
17 Dec 1926
Lithuanian military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras
17 Dec 1926
Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the coup dtat is successful
17 Dec 1927
US submarine S-4 sinks after collision killing all 34 aboard
17 Dec 1927
Victoria score 793 against Queensland Bill Ponsford 437
17 Dec 1928
John McGraw backs NL President John Heydlers designated hitter idea
17 Dec 1932
Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree & Ownie Carroll
17 Dec 1933
B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut Eng v India at Bombay
17 Dec 1933
Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)
17 Dec 1933
NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game
17 Dec 1961
Niteroi Circus in Rio de Janeiro Brazil catches fire 323 die after disgruntled employee sets fire to the tent
17 Dec 1962
Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places)
17 Dec 1963
West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
17 Dec 1963
Ballon dOr Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper Lev Yashin wins award for best European football player beats Milan midfielder Gianni Rivera and Tottenham striker Jimmy Greaves first Russian national to win trophy
17 Dec 1935
First flight of the Douglas DC-3 (C-47 SkytrainDakota) airplane.
17 Dec 1936
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy appear on TV
17 Dec 1938
Discovery of nuclear fission using uranium by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann
17 Dec 1939
German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
17 Dec 1941
Dutch & Australian troops land on Portuguese Timor
17 Dec 1941
World War II Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol.
17 Dec 1942
Allies in London sentence German war criminals
17 Dec 1943
Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
17 Dec 1944
Green Bay Packers win NFL championship with an 82 record
17 Dec 1944
San Franciso M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
17 Dec 1944
US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast detainees released
17 Dec 1944
US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines 790 killed
17 Dec 1946
Bradman & Barnes complete 405 run 5th wicket stand score 234 each
17 Dec 1946
US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km White Sands Proving Grounds New Mexico
17 Dec 1947
NY struck by a blizzard resulting with 27 of snow
17 Dec 1947
WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland Ohio (ABC) begins broadcasting
17 Dec 1949
Regina closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 86 performances
17 Dec 1951
Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
17 Dec 1953
US Federal Communications Commission approves RCAs black & white-compatible color TV specifications
17 Dec 1954
1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary Indiana)
17 Dec 1954
WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
17 Dec 1957
US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
17 Dec 1957
Ballon dOr Real Madrid forward Alfredo Di Stfano wins award for best football player in Europe ahead of Englishmen Billy Wright and Duncan Edwards
17 Dec 1957
The largest trade in NHL history at the time in terms of quantity Chicago Black Hawks move Nick Mickoski Jack McIntyre Bob Bailey & Hec Lalonde to Detroit Red Wings for Earl Reibel Billy Dea Bill Dineen & Lorne Ferguson
17 Dec 1958
Ted Lindsay becomes highest scoring left wing in NHL history passing Aurel Joliat who retired with 270 scores twice and adds an assist In Chicago Black Hawks 5-2 win over the Boston Bruins at Chicago Stadium
17 Dec 1959
On The Beach is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
17 Dec 1960
La Plume de Ma Tante closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 performances
17 Dec 1960
Take Me Along closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 448 performances
17 Dec 1960
Pablo Casals oratorio El Pesebrio premieres
17 Dec 1961
India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
17 Dec 1965
British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
17 Dec 1965
Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
17 Dec 1967
WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport Connecticut (PBS) begins broadcasting
17 Dec 1967
Harold Holt Prime Minister of Australia vanishes in mysterious circumstances while swimming near Melbourne
17 Dec 1969
USAF closes Project Blue Book concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
17 Dec 1970
Poland shipyard workers in Gdansk strike soldiers in Gdynia fire at workers emerging from trains killing dozens.
17 Dec 1971
Diamonds are Forever 7th James Bond film last starring Sean Conner also starring Jill St. John is 1st released in West Germany
17 Dec 1971
Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
17 Dec 1972
New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
17 Dec 1972
WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
17 Dec 1973
Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
17 Dec 1975
1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers 3-0-Billy Smiths 5th
17 Dec 1975
John Paul Stevens appointed to the US Supreme Court
17 Dec 1975
Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on US President Fords life
17 Dec 1977
Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA aged 41
17 Dec 1977
Elvis Costello & The Attractions 1st US TV appearance (SNL)
17 Dec 1977
Rookie defenseman Barry Beck scores first career hat trick and adds an assist in Colorado Rockies 5-1 win v Minnesota North Stars sets NHL record for rookie defensemen with a goal in his 6th straight game
17 Dec 1978
Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
17 Dec 1978
The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.
17 Dec 1978
OPEC raises oil prices by 18% and agrees on a 14.5% petrolium price increase for 1979 to be implemented quarterly
17 Dec 1979
Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
17 Dec 1981
Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier General James L Dozier
17 Dec 1983
Peg closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 5 performances
17 Dec 1983
The Provisional IRA bombs Harrods department store in London killing six people and injuring 90
17 Dec 1983
In his 352nd NHL game Wayne Gretzky scores a goal & 5 assists in 8-1 rout of Quebec Nordiques to record his 800th point and 500th assist averages 2.27 points 1.42 assists 0.85 goals per game to start career
17 Dec 1986
Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge England
17 Dec 1986
Edmontons Wayne Gretzky scores 4 goals including a natural hat trick in the 1st period and also records an assist as the Oilers win 5-3 over the visiting Quebec Nordiques his 41st NHL career hat trick
17 Dec 1987
Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
17 Dec 1988
77th Davis Cup Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
17 Dec 1988
Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash Caps)
17 Dec 1988
NY Islanders break 12 game losing streak beat Devils 5-2
17 Dec 1988
USS Tennessee 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles commissioned
17 Dec 1989
78th Davis Cup Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
17 Dec 1989
Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello as president
17 Dec 1989
Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA v WA)
17 Dec 1989
Patti RizzoMike Hill win LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
17 Dec 1990
KTBN Salt Lake City Utah begins shortwave radio transmissions
17 Dec 1991
Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80 by record 68 pts
17 Dec 1991
NBAs most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
17 Dec 1991
Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
17 Dec 1991
Soap opera One Life To Live airs its 6000th episode
17 Dec 1991
Pittsburgh Penguins score team record 8 goals in one period in 2nd session of 10-2 win over NHL expansion San Jose Sharks
17 Dec 1992
Christmas Carol opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
17 Dec 1992
Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
17 Dec 1993
Muslims in Bangladesh call for the murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
17 Dec 1993
Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (112.54)
17 Dec 1993
Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
17 Dec 1995
School after Scandal closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 23 performances
17 Dec 1996
In My Bed single released by Dru Hill (Billboard Song of the Year 1997)
17 Dec 1999
The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54134 designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women
17 Dec 1999
Raymond Bourque becomes just the 3rd player in NHL history to score 1100 assists and goaltender Byron Dafoe records his 100th NHL victory in Boston Bruins 3-1 win over the Thrashers in Atlanta
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.
17 Dec 2003
The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
17 Dec 2003
SpaceShipOne flight 11P piloted by Brian Binnie makes its first supersonic flight
17 Dec 2003
The Return of the King 3rd Lord of the Ring films is released. Makes US72 million opening weekend 2nd film to gross over 1 billion worldwide.
17 Dec 2005
Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai Hong Kong
17 Dec 2007
Republic of Lakotah asserts independence from the United States
17 Dec 2012
Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the worlds oldest verified man at 116 years old
17 Dec 2012
17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency Pakistan
17 Dec 2012
10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan
17 Dec 2012
18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou Benin
17 Dec 1843
Henry Cole founder of Londons V&A Museum commissions printing of the 1st Christmas card
17 Dec 1970
Poland shipyard workers in Gdask strike soldiers in Gdynia fire at workers emerging from trains killing dozens.
17 Dec 1944
San Francisco M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
17 Dec 1978
OPEC raises oil prices by 18% and agrees on a 14.5% petroleum price increase for 1979 to be implemented quarterly
17 Dec 1526
Pope Clemens VII publishes decree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
17 Dec 1206
Crusader Wallon de Sarton presents Bishop of Amiens Richard de Gerberoy with purported skull of John the Baptist stolen from Constantinople (Amiens cathedral later built to house it)
17 Dec 1949
Marc Blitzstein s musical drama Regina based on Lillian Hellmans play The Little Foxes closes at 46th St Theatre NYC. after 56 performances and 2 Tony Awards
17 Dec 1960
La Plume de Ma Tante closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 performances
17 Dec 1962
Beatles 1st British TV appearance on People & Places
17 Dec 1970
Workers returning to shipyard in Gdynia Poland are met by soldiers who shoot at the crowd killing at least 18 wounding hundreds
17 Dec 1992
A Christmas Carol opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
17 Dec 1788
Russian army of Grigory Potemkin assaults and captures the fortress of Ocharov in modern day Ukraine after a 5 month long siege in one of the major events of the Russo-Turkish War
17 Dec 1933
Bryan Valentine (136) and Lala Amarnath (102no) score centuries on their Test Cricket debut on Day 3 of 1st Test between England and India at Bombay
17 Dec 1936
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy appear on TV
17 Dec 1946
Bradman & Barnes complete record 405 run 5th wicket stand score 234 each in 2nd Cricket Test Australia vs. England in Sydney
17 Dec 1975
NHL NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers for 1st time in 3-0 win with Billy Smith in goal
17 Dec 1986
Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart lung and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge England
17 Dec 1988
Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Washington Capitals)
17 Dec 1832
Real Estate developer Samuel Ruggles deeds Gramercy Park to board of trustees to hold as parkland he is granted tax exempt status by New York City for the park and develops the surrounding lots ensuring private access only to those properties
17 Dec 1894
Cricket day 3 1T Australia v England England 325 all out 261 behind on 1st innings
17 Dec 1941
Dutch and Australian troops land on Portuguese Timor
17 Dec 1976
NYCs Grand Central Terminal train station is added to the National Register of Historic Places [1]
17 Dec 1979
Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle disputed due to measurement methodology used)
17 Dec 2003
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers established by SWOP-USA human rights organization
17 Dec 2012
NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moons gravity field
17 Dec 2013
Australia wins the 3rd test to take win the -14 Ashes test cricket series
17 Dec 2014
103-year-old Gus Andreone records the 8th ace of his career on the 113-yard 14th hole of the Lakes Course Palm Aire Sarasota FL oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one
17 Dec 2015
Jos Mourinho is sacked as manager of British Premier football club Chelsea
17 Dec 2015
Libyan warring political factions sign a UN-brokered deal to form a unified government
17 Dec 2015
Martin Shkreli CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals is arrested on fraud charges in New York by the FBI
17 Dec 1572
Spanish army starts fires in Haarlem Netherlands
17 Dec 1777
France recognizes the independence of the British colonies in America
17 Dec 1788
Russian army led by Grigory Potemkin assaults and captures the fortress of Ochakov in modern-day Ukraine after a five-month-long siege in one of the major events of the Russo-Turkish War
17 Dec 1894
Day 3 of first cricket test between Australia and England England 325 all out 261 behind on 1st innings
17 Dec 1900
First prize of 100000 francs is offered for communication with extraterrestrials with Martians excluded as they are considered too easy
17 Dec 1902
Frank Wedekinds play Der Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) premieres in Berlin
17 Dec 1924
First US diesel electric locomotive enters service in the Bronx New York
17 Dec 1932
St. Louis Cardinals trade future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Jim Bottomley to the Cincinnati Reds for Estel Crabtree and Ownie Carroll
17 Dec 1959
On The Beach is the first film to premiere simultaneously on both sides of the Iron Curtain
17 Dec 1960
Pablo Casals oratorio El Pesebrio premieres in Acapulco Mexico
17 Dec 1969
USAF closes its Project Blue Book concluding there is no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
17 Dec 1979
Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kmh (739.66 mph) but is widely disputed because the speed is not measured under official land speed record conditions and the methodology is questionable
17 Dec 1986
Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the first heart lung and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge England
17 Dec 1992
Gen Suwa finds a tooth of 4.4 million-year-old Australopithecus ramidus
17 Dec 1999
Ray Bourque becomes just the 3rd player in NHL history to score 1100 assists and goaltender Byron Dafoe records his 100th NHL victory in Boston Bruins 3-1 win over the Thrashers in Atlanta
17 Dec 2012
Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the worlds verified oldest living person at 116 years old