Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 17
December 17: National Day in Bhutan (1907)
- 1843 - A Christmas Carol, a fictional short story about Ebenezer Scrooge, was first published by Charles Dickens with much success.
- 1903 - Orville and Wilbur Wright conducted the first successful flight of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.
- 1944 - Malmédy massacre: Waffen-SS troops under Jochen Peiper shot at about 150 unarmed prisoners of war with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.
- 1989 - The Simpsons made their debut as an animated series on the Fox television network.
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