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==Events== * 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. * 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison. * 920 – Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII. * 942 – Assassination of William I of Normandy. *1398 – Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur. *1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England. *1583 – Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg. *1586 – Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan. *1600 – Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici. *1651 – Castle Cornet in Guernsey, the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War, surrenders. *1718 – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain. *1777 – American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States. *1790 – Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone. *1807 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System. *1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa. *1819 – Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela). *1835 – Great Fire of New York: Fire levels lower Manhattan. *1837 – A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards. *1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues ''General Order No. 11'', expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. *1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert. *1892 – First issue of ''Vogue'' is published *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. *1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the ''Wright Flyer'' at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. *1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan *1918 – Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. *1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. *1926 – Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful. *1927 – Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date. *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. *1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3. *1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy. *1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate – The ''Admiral Graf Spee'' is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo. *1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo. *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. *1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper. *1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber. *1950 – The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea. *1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations. *1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. *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. * 1960 – 1960 Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed. *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. *1967 – Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned. *1969 – The SALT I talks begin. * 1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs. *1970 – Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens. *1973 – Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport. *1981 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. *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. *1987 – ''Final Fantasy'' is released in Japan on the Famicon, marking the start of the ''Final Fantasy'' series and saving Square from bankruptcy. *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. * 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. *1997 – The British Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 comes into force, banning all handguns with the exception of antique and show weapons. *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. *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. * 2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight. *2005 – Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. * 2005 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan. *2009 – sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals. *2010 – Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring. *2013 – The anti-corruption operation in Turkey begins with high profile detainments. *2014 – The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them 55 years ago. *2015 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens is scheduled to premiere in the United Kingdom. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「December 17」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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