Like today, December 17, 2021


546: The Ostrogoths under Totila occupy Rome from the Byzantines. 920: Romanos I Lekapinos is proclaimed co-emperor, as commissioner of the minor emperor Constantine VII of Porphyrogenitus. 942 – William I of Normandy is assassinated. 1577: Francis Drake sets out on a secret mission of Queen Elizabeth to explore the western part of America. 1718 – Great Britain declares war on Spain. 1790: The Aztec stone calendar is discovered in Mexico City. 1791: The New York Traffic Police creates the world’s first one-way street. 1819: The Constitutional Assembly of Agustura establishes the Republic of Greater Colombia (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama) and appoints Simon Bolivar as its first president. 1865: Franz Schubert’s “Incomplete Agreement” premieres. 1892: The first issue of Vogue magazine is published. 1903: At 10:35 a.m. in North Carolina, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright make the world’s first motorized airplane flight. Their flight lasts 1 minute, covering 850 feet. (US Air Force Day). 1912 – Peace talks in the Balkans begin in London. […]

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