How Many Days Until December 17?

This day in history: December 17

1. 1951

   The Civil Rights Congress presented a document to the United Nations Genocide Convention charging the United States government with genocide against African Americans.

2. 1967

   Harold Holt, the prime minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered.

3. 1970

   Polish soldiers fired at workers emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country.

4. 1983

   The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb outside Harrods in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.

5. 1990

   American gay rights activist William E. Woods brought three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in Honolulu.

6. 2010

   Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian revolution.

7. 2016

   The first victims of a mass methanol poisoning which eventually killed over 70 inhabitants of Irkutsk, Russia, began arriving at hospitals.

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