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A bit of December 17th history…
1398 - Tamerlane captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud’s armies by setting camels loaded with hay alight and charging them at Sultan’s armored elephants
1538 - Pope Paul II excommunicates King Henry VIII of England
1843 - Henry Cole, founder of London’s V&A Museum, commissions printing of the 1st Christmas Card (pictured)
1900 - 1st prize of 100,000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials; Martians excluded, considered too easy
1900 - New Ellis Island Immigration Station completed costing $1.5 million
1903 - The Wright Brothers make the 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight at Kitty Hawk, NC
1969 - USAF closed Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
1989 - “The Simpsons” premiers
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