December 17 ⇒Detail
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1600 - Tokugawa Ieyasu orders the punitive force against the Shimazu to withdraw.
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1878 - The Date of Kasuga Wakamiya Festival is moved from November 17 to December 17.
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1903 - The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight.
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1984 - Satoshi Sumita becomes the governor of the Bank of Japan.
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1989 - Yasushi Mieno becomes the governor of the Bank of Japan.
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1994 - ◆◆Yasuo Matsushita becomes the governor of the Bank of Japan.
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1996 - The Japanese embassy hostage crisis.
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2003 - Rising East Project is launched (the project to construct the new Tokyo tower).
December 17 ⇒Detail
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January 22, 1905 - ★Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
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January 22, 1905 - ★(birth) Muku Hatoju, Japanese novelist, library curator.
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January 12, 1914 - 1914 Sakurajima eruption (Kagoshima, Japan).
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January 18, 1919 - The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France (World War I).
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January 17, 1995 - ◆◆The Great Hanshin earthquake (magnitude 7.3 earthquake).
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January 23, 2000 - The National Association of Crime Victims (NAVS) is established.
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January 29, 2002 - ▲US President Bush says "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil.
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January 29, 2002 - ▲Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka and the vice-minister are dismissed.
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January 29, 2002 - ▲Kyosen Ohashi resigns in the House of Councillors.
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January 20, 2011 - ◆China reportedly surpasses Japan as the world’s second-largest economy.
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January 20, 2011 - ◆Twin bomb attacks in the central Iraqi city of Karbala. About 50 are killed.
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January 20, 2011 - ◆The largest mob roundup in F.B.I. history is carried out.
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