| December 17th 1933 | | B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, Eng v India at Bombay
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| December 17th 1933 | | Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)
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| December 17th 1933 | | Spain's 2nd Govt of Lerroux forms
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| December 17th 1933 | | NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game
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| December 17th 1936 | | Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
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| December 17th 1938 | | Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
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| December 17th 1939 | | German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
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| December 17th 1940 | | British troops occupies Sollum
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| December 17th 1941 | | Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
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| December 17th 1941 | | German submarine U-31 sunk
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| December 17th 1941 | | German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
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| December 17th 1942 | | Allies in London sentence German war criminals
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| December 17th 1943 | | Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
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| December 17th 1944 | | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
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| December 17th 1944 | | Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
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