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December 17: National Day in Bhutan (1907)
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
- 1903 – In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, Orville and Wilbur Wright aboard the Wright Flyer (pictured) conducted the first successful flight of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.
- 1944 – Malmedy massacre: Nazi German troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.
- 1970 – Soldiers fired at workers emerging from trains in Gdynia, Poland, beginning the government's brutal crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country.
- 1983 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a car bomb just outside Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.
More events: December 16 – December 17 – December 18
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Allen (deaths 17 december), isn't he died 2 november 1991???? see link * 1987 - Irving Allen, producer. Or is it a wrong link?? 82.161.83.69 11:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
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- Possible confusions. See Internet movie database :
- 1. Irwin Allen (I) (Producer, The Towering Inferno (1974))
- 2. Irwin Allen (II) (Writer, Panic Year (2002))"
- and Broadway database : Irving Lee, also known as: Irving Allen Lee ... but I do not know them! -- Harvestman 22:46, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
"2006 - The Metalocalypse begins" - isn't this advertising?
Luke Parks 00:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
"1973 - 32 are killed in an attempt at the Rome Fiumicino Airport."
Attempt to do what???
GreatWhiteNortherner (talk) 04:15, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
