December 17 holidays, events, history
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – Pan American Aviation Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Wright Brothers Day.
🇮🇶 Iraq – Kurdistan Flag Day.
🇧🇾 Belarus – Belarusian Cinema Day.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Power Engineers Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – State Executive Service Day.
🇹🇳 Tunisia – National Revolution Day.
🇧🇹 Bhutan – National Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Strategic Missile Forces Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1237 – The great poet Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi died in Kuniya.
– 1474 – Astronomer, mathematician, thinker Ali Kushchi died in Istanbul.
– 1637 – The Japanese Christian uprising led by Amakusa Siro took place.
– 1777 – France recognizes the independence of the United States.
– 1837 – The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg burns down.
– 1881 – The first premiere of Oscar Wilde’s play “Faith or Nihilism” in London is canceled.
– 1903 – The first flight of the Wright brothers, the fathers of aviation.
– 1918 – The establishment of Soviet power is announced in Riga (Latvia).
– 1926 – The first all-Union census is held.
– 1959 – The Strategic Missile Forces are created by the decision of the USSR government.
– 1962 – The new constitution of Monaco comes into force.
– 1989 – The first series of the cartoon “The Simpsons” is shown in the USA.
– 1993 – Major League Soccer is founded.
– 1995 – Elections to the second convocation of the State Duma were held.
– 1998 – The United States and Great Britain launched the military operation “Desert Fox” against Iraq.
– 2009 – The cargo ship MV Danny F II sank off the coast of Lebanon, killing 44 people and more than 28,000 animals.
– 2010 – Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, which became the impetus for the revolution in Tunisia and the entire Arab Spring.
– 2014 – The United States and Cuba announced the restoration of diplomatic relations, which were broken off in 1961 (they were officially restored on July 20, 2015).
