December 17th in History
December 17th
546: The Ostrogoths, led by King Totila, plundered Rome during the Siege of Rome by bribing the Eastern Roman garrison.
1849Thomas and William Bowler, felt hat makers, sold their first 'bowler' to William Coke, which he purchased at James Lock & Co. in London.
1995: A statue of the late Frank Zappa was unveiled in Vilnius, the capital of the Republic Of Lithuania. The statue, by Lithuanian sculptor Konstantin Bogdan, was installed as "a symbol that would mark the end of communism, but at the same time express that it wasn't always doom and gloom".
Radio1902: A transmission from the Marconi station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, becomes the world's first radio message to cross the Atlantic from North America.
2018On This Day, all tolls ceased on the Severn Bridges. The first bridge crossing opened in 1966 with tolls charged in both directions. The arrangements were changed in the early 1990s and the toll was collected on the English side and only for vehicles travelling westwards from England to Wales. People have had to pay to cross the Severn Estuary, with its treacherous tides, since Roman times, be it in a car, in a train or on a ferry
546: The Ostrogoths, led by King Totila, plundered Rome during the Siege of Rome by bribing the Eastern Roman garrison.
1849Thomas and William Bowler, felt hat makers, sold their first 'bowler' to William Coke, which he purchased at James Lock & Co. in London.
1995: A statue of the late Frank Zappa was unveiled in Vilnius, the capital of the Republic Of Lithuania. The statue, by Lithuanian sculptor Konstantin Bogdan, was installed as "a symbol that would mark the end of communism, but at the same time express that it wasn't always doom and gloom".
Radio1902: A transmission from the Marconi station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, becomes the world's first radio message to cross the Atlantic from North America.
2018On This Day, all tolls ceased on the Severn Bridges. The first bridge crossing opened in 1966 with tolls charged in both directions. The arrangements were changed in the early 1990s and the toll was collected on the English side and only for vehicles travelling westwards from England to Wales. People have had to pay to cross the Severn Estuary, with its treacherous tides, since Roman times, be it in a car, in a train or on a ferry
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