OK, so on this day in 1903<\/b> the Wright brothers did the first successful manned, self-propelled airplane flights.<\/p>\n
But what else happened on December 17 down through the years?<\/p>\n
1777<\/b> — France recognized American independence.<\/p>\n
1843<\/b> — Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol<\/i> was first published.<\/p>\n
1862<\/b> — General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11 expelling Jews from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi.<\/p>\n
1944<\/b> — Japanese-Americans are released from detention camps.<\/p>\n
1947<\/b> — The Arab League announced it will use force to resist partition of Palestine.<\/p>\n
1948<\/b> — “Operation Magic Carpet” begn to take Yemenite Jews to Israel.<\/p>\n
1969<\/b> — The US Air Force closed its Project “Blue Book” by concluding that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings.<\/p>\n
1992<\/b> — US President H. W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari signed the North American Free Trade Agreement.<\/p>\n
Is that all? Nope. There were nuclear tests hither and yon. And other stuff, including this strange one:<\/p>\n
1967<\/b> — Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned.<\/p>\n
Do your own search if you’re that interested in what else happened on December 17. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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