Today in Military History:
December 17

Events of Military significance on this day:
  546Goths under Totila capture Rome.
 1399Battle of Panipat. Tamerlane defeated Indian army then massacred 100,000 captured Indian troops. He went on to destroy Delhi with further slaughter.
 1903At 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Brothers.
 19331st professional football game: Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants.
 1939German battleship, Admiral Graf Spee scuttled off coast of Uraguay.
 1944Malmedy Massacre. Germans gun down 70 prisoners near Malmedy.


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