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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 17
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of John Kerr in Ardrossan, Scotland; physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect).
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Manning Ferguson Force; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1899).
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Thomas Starr King in New York City, New York, USA; Unitarian clergyman (Christianity and Humanity).
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 10th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal, 1921-30, 1935-48).
- 100th: 1924 - First US diesel electric locomotive enters service, in Bronx, New York.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Ference Bene in Hungary; record 12 soccer goals (Olympics-gold-1964).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jack L[aurence] Chalker; American sci-fi author (Charon: A Dragon at the Gate, Saga of Well World).
- 80th: 1944 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship.
- 80th: 1944 - US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast; Japanese-Americans are released from detention camps.
- 70th: 1954 - First fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana, USA).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Bill Pullman; actor (Sommersby, A League of their Own, Independence Day).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Eric Brown in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Buzz - Mama's Family).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Frank Musil in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia; NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Joe Wolf; NBA forward/center (Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Tyrone Braxton; NFL safety (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Giovonni Ribisi; actor (Cory - My two Dads, New Leave it To Beaver, Friends, The Wonder Years).
- 40th: 1984 - New Jersey Devils' first penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton Oilers.
- 40th: 1984 - New Jersey Devils' first shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minnesota, 2-0.
- 30th: 1994 - Birth of Nathaniel Marvin Wolff, American actor, singer-songwriter/keyboardist (The Naked Brothers Band).
- 30th: 1994 - Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at age 64.
- 25th: 1999 - The United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) is created to replace UNSCOM. The U.N. Security Council once again orders Iraq to allow inspections teams immediate and unconditional access to any weapons sites and facilities. Iraq rejects the resolution.
- 25th: 1999 - Grover Washington Junior, jazz saxophonist and composer, suffers a heart attack and collapses after taping four songs for The Saturday Early Show on CBS, dying in hospital in New York City.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Rex Allen, after being accidently run over in his own driveway; singer, published over 300 songs, starred in 19 Republic western movies, narrated dozens of Disney films and TV ashows.
- 20th: 2004 - The Seattle Mariners baseball team sign free-agent third baseman Adrian Beltre to a $64 million, five-year deal.
- 10th: 2014 - Warner Bros. releases the film The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies to theaters.
- 10th: 2014 - U.S. President Barack Obama announces the resumption of normal relations between the U.S. and Cuba.
- 5th: 2019 - Shandong, China's first fully domestically-built aircraft carrier, enters naval service.
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