Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 17
December 17: National Day in Bhutan (1907)
- 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
- 1903 - Orville and Wilbur Wright aboard the Wright Flyer (pictured) conducted the first successful flight of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.
- 1944 - Malmedy massacre: Waffen-SS troops under Joachim Peiper shot at about 150 unarmed prisoners of war with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.
- 1983 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a bomb just outside Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.
- 1989 - The Simpsons made its debut as an animated series on the Fox television network.
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