Talk:December 17

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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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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)

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)

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"2006 - The Metalocalypse begins" - isn't this advertising?

Luke Parks 00:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)