Events which occurred on the 17th of December.
Events[]
The Wright Flyer at Kill Devil Hill in North Carolina.
- 1538
- British King Henry VIII is excommunicated.
- 1770
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven is born.
- 1903
- Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful test-flight with the Wright Flyer at Kill Devil Hill in North Carolina. (ENT episode & novelization: Shockwave, TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins)
- 1938
- Nuclear fission is first discovered on Earth.
- 1942
- The film Random Harvest premiers.
- 2269
- Pavel Chekov meets with Mark Piper at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. (TOS - The Lost Years novel: Traitor Winds)
Appendices[]
Calendar of publication and production[]
- 1971
- The first installment of TOS comic: "Creeping Death" is released.
- 1977
- TOS comic: "The Voodoo Planet", part 12 is reprinted in Mighty TV Comic #1357.
- 1979
- The 16th installment of TOS comic: "Called Home" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
- 1980
- The 102nd installment of TOS comic: "Husian Gambit" is published.
- The 2nd installment of "The Motion Picture" is reprinted in b/w in Future Tense #7 by Marvel UK.
- 1981
- The 53rd installment of TOS comic: "Restructuring Is Futile" is published.
- 1982
- The 41st installment of "TOS comic: "Taking Shape" is published.
- 1997
- DS9 episode: "The Magnificent Ferengi" and VOY episode: "Mortal Coil" air.
- 2008
- TNG - The Last Generation comic: "No Cure For That" is released by IDW Publishing.
- 2014
- TOS - New Visions comic: "Issue 4" and TOS - The Q Gambit comic: "Part 5" are published.
- The Next Generation: The Full Journey is released on Blu-ray in Australia.
- 2019
- DSC novel: Dead Endless is published by Pocket Books.
- 2020
- DSC episode: "Terra Firma", Part 2 debuts on CBS All Access.
External link[]
- 17 December article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.