User:Venustas 12/December 17 2010 Selected Anniversaries/
User:Venustas 12/December 17 2010 Selected Anniversaries/doc December 17: Tenth of Tevet (Judaism, 2010); National Day in Bhutan (1907)
- 920 – Romanos I became co-Byzantine Emperor with the underage Constantine VII.
- 1583 – Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeated the troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
- 1819 – The Republic of Gran Colombia in South America was established, with Simón Bolívar as its first president.
- 1903 – In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, US, Orville and Wilbur Wright aboard the Wright Flyer conducted the first successful flight of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.
- 1926 – A coup d'état by the Lithuanian military replaced the democratically elected President Kazys Grinius with Antanas Smetona (pictured).
- 1983 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb just outside Harrods Department Store in London, UK, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.
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