Template:On this day/17 Dizember

17 December:

• 1538 – Pape Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII o Ingland.
• 1777 – American Revolution: Fraunce formally recognises the Unitit States.
• 1903 – The Wright brithers mak the first controlled pouered, hivier-nor-air flicht in the Wright Flyer (picturt) at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• 1938 – Otto Hahn diskivers the nuclear fission o the hivy element uranium, the scienteefic an technological basis o nuclear energy.
• 1989 – The Simpsons first premieres on televeesion wi the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".

Simón Bolívar (d. 1783) · Pape Francis (b. 1936) · Kim Jong-il (d. 2011)