by Leonardo Miraglia
Today, Wednesday 17 April 2024the sun rises at 6:31 and sets at 8.03pm.
The saint of the day:
Blessed Chiara Gambacorti Widow, Dominican
Florence, 1362 – Pisa, 17 April 1420
Roman Martyrology: In Pisa, Blessed Chiara Gambacorti, who, still young, widowed of her husband, at the exhortation of Saint Catherine of Siena, founded the first strictly observant Dominican monastery here and, having pardoned the murderers of her father and her brothers, governed her sisters with prudence and charity.
It happened on April 17th:
1155 – On Easter Sunday, Frederick I Barbarossa is crowned in Pavia as king of Italy with the Iron Crown; some historians believe that the coronation instead took place in Monza on the previous 15th April, Good Friday
1492 – The Catholic Kings and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe in which they established the financing conditions for his voyage to the East Indies via the west
1521 – Martin Luther summoned by the emperor to justify himself before the Diet of Worms
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor
1848 – The wall surrounding the Jewish Ghetto in Rome is demolished
1865 – Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1895 – Treaty of Shimonoseki, known in China as the Treaty of Maguan: convention signed at the Shunpanrō Hotel between the Japanese Empire and the Qing Dynasty that ended the First Sino-Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895)
1924 – The US film production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is founded
1941 – World War II: Yugoslavia capitulates following invasion by Axis forces
1944 – Second World War: roundup of the Quadraro neighborhood in Rome
1961 – Cuban Missile Crisis/Bay of Pigs: Invasion of Cuba begins
1964 – Ford introduces the Mustang sports car
Jerrie Mock is the first woman to circumnavigate the earth by air
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of the assassination of Robert Kennedy
1970 – The Apollo 13 cabin returns to Earth
1975 – Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge
2004 – West Bank: Gaza, the head of the Palestinian group Hamas, Abd al-Aziz al-Rantissi, killed by an Israeli missile
2014 – NASA announces the discovery of the most Earth-like planet discovered so far, which is given the name Kepler-186 f
Born on April 17:
Victoria Adams
English singer
April 17, 1974
Giusy Ferreri
Italian singer
April 17, 1979
Paola Perego
Italian TV presenter
April 17, 1966
Luigi Settembrini
Italian writer and patriot
17 April 1813 – 4 November 1876
Nero Wolfe
Fictional character, New York private detective
April 17, 1893
The proverb of April 17:
When April thunders, it’s a good sign for the barrel
Last modified: April 16, 2024
