December 17<\/p>\n
546 \u2013 The Siege of Rome by the Ostrogoths under King Totila ends by bribing the Byzantine garrison and sacking the city.<\/p>\n
1538 \u2013 After separating from the Church of Rome and appointing himself Supreme Head of the Church of England, King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated by Pope Paul III.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 France formally recognizes the United States as an independent nation.<\/p>\n
1790 \u2013 The Aztec Sun Stone calendar is discovered at El Z\u00f3calo, Mexico City during repairs to the city cathedral.<\/p>\n
1819 \u2013 Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, who later dies on this date in 1830, declares the independence of Gran Colombia during the Congress of Angostura.<\/p>\n
1835 \u2013 The second Great Fire of New York destroys 13 acres of New York City’s Financial District.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11<\/em>, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky due to his belief they were engaged in unlicensed trade.<\/p>\n 1892 \u2013 First issue of Vogue<\/em> magazine is published.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 Orville Wright, piloting the Wright Flyer,<\/em> makes the first controlled powered flight of a heavier than air craft flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 The first NFL Championship Game is played at Wrigley Field between the New York Giants and Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n 1935 \u2013 The Douglas DC-3 make its first flight<\/p>\n 1938 \u2013 While working as the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of uranium releasing large amounts of energy.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013\u00a0 During the Battle of the Bulge, in areas around Malmedy, Belgium, a total of 373 known U.S. soldiers, held as Prisoners of War, are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe troops under the command of Obersturmbannf\u00fchrer Joachim Peiper.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 The Boeing B-47 Stratojet makes its first flight<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 The 94th Fighter Interceptor Squadron of the U.S. Air Force 1st Fighter Wing flies its first combat sortie in Korea in F-86 Sabres.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 The U.S. successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 The U.S. Air Force officially closes its Project Blue Book study of UFOs.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Thirty travelers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci\u2013Fiumicino Airport.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013Mojave Aerospace Ventures’\u00a0SpaceShipOne<\/em>, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered flight reaching supersonic speed.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 17 546 \u2013 The Siege of Rome by the Ostrogoths under King Totila ends by bribing the Byzantine garrison and sacking the city. 1538 \u2013 After separating from the Church of Rome and appointing himself Supreme Head of the Church of England, King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated by Pope Paul III. 1777 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98640,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62953\/revisions\/98640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}