User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/December 17

December 17:

 * 1637 - The Shimabara Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
 * 1939 - German battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff at the Battle of the River Plate.
 * 1941 - German siege of Sevastopol begins.
 * 1944 - Western Defense Command issues proclamation ending requirement of Japanese internment.
 * 1944 - In what became known as the Malmedy massacre, around 80 American POW are executed by Waffen-SS troops of Jochen Peiper's Kampfgruppe.