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Today in History December 17

December 17, 2018 By Cora Frederick Leave a Comment

546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
1777 – France formally recognizes the United States.
1790 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City.
1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
1835 – The second Great Fire of New York destroys 50 acres (200,000 square meters) of New York City’s Financial District.
1862 – General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1943 – All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers We Charge Genocide to the United Nations.
1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.

 

A stamp from a series for Nobel laureates of physics and chemistry celebrates Otto Hahn

1989 – The Simpsons first premieres on television with the episode “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”.
2010 – Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
2014 – The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1960.

Births
1807 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist (d. 1892)

1900 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos (d. 1998)

Deaths
1830 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (b. 1783)
1964 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
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