| December 17th 1894 | | Cricket day 3 1T Aus v Eng Eng 325 all out, 261 behind on 1st inn
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| December 17th 1895 | | Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
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| December 17th 1895 | | George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
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| December 17th 1900 | | 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
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| December 17th 1900 | | New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
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| December 17th 1902 | | Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist," premieres in Berlin
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| December 17th 1903 | | At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
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| December 17th 1907 | | Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
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| December 17th 1909 | | Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels
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| December 17th 1914 | | Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
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| December 17th 1914 | | Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
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| December 17th 1914 | | Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
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| December 17th 1919 | | Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
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| December 17th 1920 | | AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
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| December 17th 1920 | | British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
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