WHAT HAPPENED ON 17. DECEMBER
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First issue of Vogue is published (17. December 1892)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire. (17. December 1896)

The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. (17. December 1903)

Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan (17. December 1907)

Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. (17. December 1918)

Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. (17. December 1919)

Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful. (17. December 1926)

Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date. (17. December 1927)

Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931. (17. December 1928)

First flight of the Douglas DC-3. (17. December 1935)

Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy. (17. December 1938)

World War II: Battle of the River Plate – The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo. (17. December 1939)

World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo. (17. December 1941)

World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper. (17. December 1944)

First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber. (17. December 1947)

The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea. (17. December 1950)

The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations. (17. December 1951)

The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (17. December 1957)

Troops loyal to Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt. (17. December 1960)

1960 Munich Convair 340 crash: 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed. (17. December 1960)