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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_17" title="December 17">December 17</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/546" title="546">546</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(546)" title="Sack of Rome (546)">Rome was sacked</a></b> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths" title="Ostrogoths">Ostrogoths</a> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totila" title="Totila">Totila</a> after a year-long siege.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1583" title="1583">1583</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_War" title="Cologne War">Cologne War</a>: Forces under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_of_Bavaria" title="Ernest of Bavaria">Ernest of Bavaria</a> defeated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Truchsess_von_Waldburg" title="Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg">Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg</a>'s troops at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Godesberg" title="Siege of Godesberg">siege of Godesberg</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_rebellion" title="Darwin rebellion">About 1,000 demonstrators marched</a></b> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_House,_Darwin" title="Government House, Darwin">Government House</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin,_Northern_Territory" title="Darwin, Northern Territory">Darwin</a>, Australia, where they burned an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effigy" title="Effigy">effigy</a> of Administrator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Gilruth" title="John A. Gilruth">John Gilruth</a> and demanded his resignation.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – The modern <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kurdistan" title="Flag of Kurdistan">flag of Kurdistan</a></b> was raised for the first time in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabad" title="Mahabad">Mahabad</a>, Iran.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983" title="1983">1983</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">The Troubles</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">Provisional Irish Republican Army</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrods_bombing" title="Harrods bombing">detonated a car bomb</a></b> outside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrods" title="Harrods">Harrods</a> in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga_of_Ndongo_and_Matamba" title="Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba">Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1663); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Faulkner" title="Aubrey Faulkner">Aubrey Faulkner</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1881); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson" title="Kenneth E. Iverson">Kenneth E. Iverson</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1920)</p>
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