What happend on 17th December

16.12
18.12
1941

German siege of Sevastopol begins

1939

German battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff at the Battle of the River Plate.

1935

First flight of the Douglas DC-3.

1919

Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1903

First powered flight, by the Wright Brothers.

1862

General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

1843

"A Christmas Carol", a fictional short story by Charles Dickens, is first published.

1777

France becomes the first nation to recognize the United States.

1637

The Shimabara Rebellion breaks out in Japan.

1586

The reign of Emperor Go-Yozei, the 107th imperial ruler of Japan, begins.