This is our day guide for Saturday December 17th 2016 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?
Holidays on December 17th 2016
Bahrain: National Day Holiday
Accession Day of Isa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, the first Emir of Bahrain, in 1961.Go to Today | December 18th 2016
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| General Information for December 17th 2016 | |
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| There are 1 public holidays today. | |
| Day 352 of 2016 | |
| 14 days left in 2016 | |
| Week 50 of the year | |
| On this Day in History | |
| 1967 - Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned. | |
| 1965 - The largest anti-Vietnam protest ever to have been held in Washington DC up to that point in time. | |
| 1780 - James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage). | |
| 1778 - Sir Humphry Davy FRS, one of the founding fathers of general anaesthesiology, is born in Penzance, Cornwall. |
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