December 17th
The December 17th is the 351e Jour of the Année (352e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . It remainder 14 days before the end of the year.
Events
- 546: Catch of Rome by Totila, king of the Ostrogoths, after a one year old seat.
- 942: Assassination of the second duke of Normandy, Guillaume I {{er}} '' Long-Sword '' by the men of the count de Flandre Arnoul I {{er}} with Picquigny.
- 1398 : Tamerlan gains with Panipat a victory Mohammed Toughklak (sources to be checked)
- 1498: Cancellation of the marriage of Louis XII and Jeanne de France.
- 1531 : Installation of the Enquiry to Lisbon by the Pope Clement VII
- 1538: Excommunication of the king Henri VIII of England by the Pope Paul III
- 1600: Marriage in Lyon of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis, girl of François Ier de Médicis large-duke of Tuscany and Jeanne de Habsbourg
- 1718: The Great Britain declares the war with the Spain.
- 1789 :
- has Paris, the constituent Assembly decides to sponge the national Debt by selling the goods of the Clergé.
- Louis XVI recognizes the anglophone independence of the colonies of America and gives its agreement for a negotiation between the two parts. The France promises subsidies, weapons, soldiers and opens its ports with the American trade. The Americans won their bet: to insulate the England. Nothing any more seems to oppose to their victory.
- 1807 : Napoleon 1 {{er}} sign the Decree of Milan prohibiting any trade with the the United Kingdom
- 1819: The Colombia is formed by Simon Bolivar.
- 1864 : First representation, with the theater of the Varieties, Paris, of the Beautiful Helene , Opera-puffs out in three acts composed by Jacques Offenbach, on a booklet of Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, one of the most successful works and most famous of Offenbach.
- 1885 : Madagascar: By the signed treaty with Tamatave, the France obtains the protectorate of the Grande-Ile, which it is “charged” to represent in all the foreign relations.
- 1903 :
- has Kitty Hawk (the United States), Orville and Wilbur Wright, at one time editors of a small newspaper then manufacturers of bicycles, take as of now place, at the sides of the French Clément Ader, with the first rank of the pioneers of the sky.
- First Patent of process of Photography color
- 1907: Independence of the Bhutan: Ugyen Wangchuk is elected and becomes the first hereditary king of Bhutan, melting a dynasty which always reigns on the country.
- 1917 : Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister (preserving) for the Canada is re-elected after the victory of the Conservative party, which obtains 153 seats at the Parliament against only 82 with the Libéraux.
- 1935 : At the time of the thirty-second birthday of the first flight of the Brothers Wright, the American Donald Wills Douglas launches a new plane, the DC-3 which will be the plane high-speed motorboat of the years 1930; he will be used for military transport and will become after the war the type even of the airliner.
- 1941 : The Japan board unload in the North of Borneo.
- 1953 : With Washington, the federal authorities approve the technical standards of television colors.
- 1957 :
- With Cap Canaveral, in Florida, first test of the missile Atlas .
- Creation of the Partido Acción Nacional, Mexican political party
- 1961: Nehru takes again the last Portuguese possession in India, Goa. It is the end of the European presence in the Indian continent.
- 1969: Signature of a treaty of 20 years friendship between the Algeria and the Tunisia.
- 1971 : Ninety thousand soldiers Pakistani go to the Indians to the Eastern Pakistan, become thus independent under the name of Bangladesh.
- 1972 : With Saint-Ouen, at the time of the twentieth congress of the French Communist party, Georges Marchais is elected with the head of the party.
- 1973 : With the airport of Rome, an attack with the machine-gun and the grenade of Arab terrorists makes thirty-two dead.
- 1976 : The dissident Vladimir Boukovsky is released by Moscow, against the release of the Communist Luis Corvalán by the dictatorship of the Chile.
- 1981 : Foundation of the federation of Sénégambie.
- 1982 : Calling upon the cruelty of this hunting, the European Union prohibits the importation of skins of Phoque of the Canada.
- 1983 :*
- 1985:
- In front of a department store with London, six people are killed by a bomb of the WILL GO.
- the Incendie of a Discothèque with Madrid makes eighty-three dead.
- 1989 :
- Fernando Collor of Mello gains the first free presidential election in twenty-nine years with the Brésil.
- Insurrection with Timisoara, beginning of the Rumanian revolution.
- First diffusion of Simpson.
- 1995 : in Austria, victory with legislative of the outgoing chancellor Franz Vranitzky; Viktor Klima will succeed two years later to him.
- 1996 :
- Inauguration of the Library François-Mitterrand by Jacques Chirac.
- Kofi Annan becomes the seventh General secretary of the United Nations, succeeding Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
- has Lima, the revolutionary commando Tupac Amaru takes four hundred people as an hostage with the embassy of the Japan.
- 1998 :
- In Iceland, the Parliament adopts a law allowing pointing Génétique of the population.
- Beginning of Anglo-American bombardments in Iraq, aiming at nuclear and chemical equipment.
- 1999 : With the Venezuela, assessment after three weeks of pouring rain: hundred thirty-seven died in the area of Caracas.
- 2002 : Peace agreement in Democratic republic of Congo
- 2006 :
- the Tensions interpalestiniennes turn to the confrontation between the Hamas to the government and the Fatah after Mahmoud Abbas announced anticipated elections.
- France: Logistic Trans-euro with Lille.
Births
- -42 : Tibère, 16 days before the calends of December, second Roman Emperor († March 18th 37)
- 1239: Kujo Yoritsugu, Shogun of Japan († October 14th 1256)
- 1267: Go-Uda, emperor of Japan († July 16th 1324)
- 1685: Thomas Tickell, writer English († April 23rd 1740)
- 1706: Emilie of Châtelet, mathematician and French physician († September 10th 1749)
- 1734: Marie Anger of Portugal, queen of Portugal († March 20th 1816)
- 1749: Domenico Cimarosa, type-setter Italy N († January 11th 1801)
- 1770: Ludwig van Beethoven, German type-setter († March 26th 1827)
- 1773: Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France († 1846)
- 1778: Sir Davy Humphry, chemist and British physicist († May 29th 1829)
- 1787: Jan Evangelista Purkyně, anatomist of Bohemian († July 28th 1869)
- 1796: Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian writer († August 27th 1865)
- 1799
- Titian Peale, artist states-unien († March 13rd 1885)
- Antoine-Joseph Jobert, doctor and surgeon French, president of the Academy of Science († 1867).
- 1807 : John Greenleaf Whittier, Free trade poet and states-unien († September 7th 1892)
- 1830: Jules de Goncourt, French writer († July 20th 1870)
- 1853
- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor († July 2nd 1917)
- Red-headed Emile, French physicist († November 3rd 1933)
- 1859: Paul Helleu, († March 23rd 1927)
- 1873: Ford Madox Ford, British writer († June 26th 1939)
- 1874: William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada († July 22nd 1950)
- 1883: Raimu ( Jules Muraire ), actor French († September 20th 1946)
- 1887: Josef Lada, thécoslovaque painter († December 14th 1957)
- 1888: Alexandre Ier of Yugoslavia, king de Yougoslavie († October 9th 1934)
- 1893: Erwin Piscator, German realistor († March 30th 1966)
- 1894: Arthur Fiedler, leader states-unien which directed the Boston Pops Orchestra 1930 with 1979 († July 10th 1979)
- 1897: Władysław Broniewski, poet Polish († February 10th 1962)
- 1901: Lee Strasberg, actor states-unien († November 17th 1982)
- 1903
- Erskine Caldwell, writer states-unien († April 11th 1987)
- Noble Ray, British musician {† April 3rd 1978}
- 1906: Fernando Lopes Graça, Portuguese type-setter. († November 27th 1994).
- 1908 : Willard Frank Libby, chemist states-unien and Nobel Prize of chemistry 1960 († September 8th 1980)
- 1911: Andre Claveau, actor French singer († July 14th 2003)
- 1916: Penelope Fitzgerald, British writer († April 28th 2000)
- 1925: Alphonse Boudard, writer French († 2000)
- 1929:
- William Safire, author and journalist states-unien
- Jacqueline Hill, British actress († February 18th 1993)
- 1930
- Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
- Bob Guccione, founder of the magazine Penthouse
- 1931: Igor Barrère, producer and realizer of French television
- 1936: Tommy Banks, musician, man of television and Canadian senator
- 1938: Jean-Claude Drouot, actor French
- 1939: Eddie Kendricks, singer states-unien (The Temptations) († October 5th 1992)
- 1940
- Anna Prucnal, actress and Polish singer
- Édika, draftsman of humorous cartoons
- 1941: Gene Clark, type-setter and singer states-unien (The Byrds) († 1991)
- 1942: Paul Butterfield, player of harmonica and blues († May 24th 1987)
- 1943: Ron Geesin, British type-setter
- 1944
- Jack L. Chalker, Canadian writer
- Bernard Hill, British actor
- 1945: Ernie Hudson, actor states-unien
- 1946: Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
- 1949: Paul Rodgers, British singer (Free)
- 1953: Bill Pullman, American actor.
- 1958 : Mike Millets, musician states-unien (R.E.M.)
- 1963: Jón $kalman Stefánsson, writer Icelandic
- 1966: Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian political personality
- 1967: Gigi d' Agostino, musician and Disc jockey Italy N
- 1971: Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
- 1973: Paula Radcliffe, British athlete
- 1975: Milla Jovovich, mannequin, actress and Ukrainian singer .
- 1976 : Patrick Muller, Swiss footballer.
- 1977 : Arnaud Clément, French tennis player
- 1991: Anas Saadallah, scientific future
Death
- 942: Guillaume I {{er}} '' Long-Sword '', duke of Normandy, assassinated (° v. 905)
- 952: Hugues the Black, duke of Burgundy
- 1187: Gregoire VIII, pope
- 1195: Baudouin V of Hainaut, count de Hainaut (°C. 1150)
- 1273: Djalal el DIN Rûmi, poet and Persian mystic (° September 30th 1207)
- 1471: Isabelle of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy (° February 21st 1397)
- 1562: Adriaan Willaert, erudite Flemish contrapuntist and type-setter. (° 1490)
- 1663: Nzinga de Ndongo and Matamba, African queen (° 1583)
- 1721: Richard Lumley, British political personality (° 1640)
- 1813: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, military pharmacist (° August 17th 1737)
- 1830: Simón Bolívar, political personality of Bolivia of origin vénézulienne (° July 24th 1783)
- 1833: Kaspar To raise, German personality (° 1812)
- 1847: Jose of los Santos, Spanish Matador (° March 10th 1806).
- 1870 : Saverio Mercadante, Italian type-setter. (° September 17th 1795)
- 1877: Louis Jean Baptist of Aurelle de Paladines, military French, Major general (° January 9th 1804).
- 1897 : Alphonse Daudet, French writer (° May 13rd 1840)
- 1907: William Thomson, known as also Lord Kelvin , physicist of Irish origin (° June 26th 1824)
- 1909: Léopold II of Belgium, king of the Belgian of 1865 with 1909 (° April 9th 1835)
- 1917: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, physician and feminist British (° June 26th 1836)
- 1926: Alfred Rossel, Norman chansonnier (° 1841)
- 1957: Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer (° June 13rd 1893)
- 1964: Victor Franz Hess, physicist states-unien of Austro-Hungarian origin, Nobel Prize of physics 1936 (° June 24th 1883)
- 1967: Francis Barry Byrne, American architect. (° December 19th 1883).
- 1973 : Charles Greeley Abbot, astronomer states-unien (° May 31st 1872)
- 1987: Marguerite Yourcenar, écrivaine French, first woman elected with the French Academy (° June 8th 1903)
- 1992: Dana Andrews, actor states-unien (° January 1st 1909)
- 1999: Roger Clipping-Rock, writer French and guides high-mountain (° 1906)
- 1999: Grover Washington, Jr., saxophonist states-unien of jazz (° December 12th 1943)
- 2004: Tom Wesselmann, painter states-unien (° February 23rd 1931)
- 2005: Jacques Fouroux, player then trainer French of Rugby (° July 24th 1947)
- 2005: Marc Favreau, Québécois actor (° November 9th 1929)
Celebrations
16 and December 17th: Kazakhstan, Day of Independence (into Cyrillic: Тәуелсіздіккүні)
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
- Daniel the Prophet
- Ananias, Azarias and Misaël
- Holy Judicaël († 658), (or Holy Gaël)
- Holy Lazare
- Holy Briac († 555), abbot in the Coast-with Armor.
See too
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