History for December 17 - On-This-Day.com
Joseph Henry 1797, John Greenleaf Whittier 1807, Erskine Caldwell 1903
William Safire 1929, Eugene Levy 1946, Giovanni Ribisi 1974 - Actor
1903 - The first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, NC. Orville Wright made the flight.
1976 - WTCG-TV, Atlanta, GA, changed its call letters to WTBS, and was uplinked via satellite. The station became the first commercial TV station to cover the entire U.S.
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