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What happened in history on this day: December 17?
On December 17 in ...
- 1953 - US Federal Communications Commission reverses its prior approval of a color television format that favored CBS-TV, instead approving RCA's black and white-compatible color TV specifications, benefitting the RCA-owned National Broadcasting Company.
- 1969 - 50 million TV viewers see singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on The Tonight Show.
- 1980 - Warner Bros. releases the film Any Which Way You Can to theaters.
- 1982 - Columbia releases the film Tootsie to theaters.
- 1986 - Wayne Newton won a $19.2 million judgment against NBC News, which had aired reports linking Newton to mob figures. The reports were proven to be false.
- 1989 - The first full length episode of The Simpsons TV show in the US, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", premieres on Fox-TV in the USA.
- 1991 - The TV soap opera One Life To Live airs its 6,000th episode.
- 2003 - New Line releases the film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to theaters.
- 2014 - Warner Bros. releases the film The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies to theaters.
Births on December 17
- 1891 - Birth of Robertson Hare in London, England; actor (Our Girl Friday, Banana Ridge).
- 1895 - Birth of David Butler in San Francisco, California, USA; director (April in Paris, Calamity Jane).
- 1911 - Birth of William Roerick in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA; actor (Henry Chamberlain - The Guiding Light TV show, Playhouse 90 TV show, Kraft TV Theatre TV show, Another World TV show, Law and Order TV show).
- 1920 - Birth of Armin Mueller-Stahl in Tilsit, East Prussia; actor (Kafka, Music Box).
- 1925 - Birth of Rijk de Gooyer; Dutch actor (Black Rider, Rififi in Amsterdam).
- 1926 - Birth of Patrice Wymore in Miltonville, Kansas, USA; actress (The Big Tree).
- 1927 - Birth of Richard Long in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (The Big Valley TV show, Professor - Nanny and the Professor TV show, 77 Sunset Strip TV show, Pantomime Quiz TV show, Bourbon Street Beat TV show).
- 1928 - Birth of Julia Meade; TV commercial spokesperson (Toast of the Town, Your Hit Parade).
- 1930 - Birth of Julia Meade; actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse).
- 1935 - Birth of George Lindsey; actor (The Andy Griffith Show TV show, Mayberry R.F.D. TV show).
- 1936 - Birth of Tommy Steele in London, England; singer/actor ("Half a Sixpence", "Finian's Rainbow").
- 1939 - Birth of Novella Nelson in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Nellie Cole - Chiefs).
- 1942 - Birth of Bernard Hill Manchester; actor (Bellman and True, New World, Bounty).
- 1945 - Birth of Christopher Cazenove in England; actor (Ben - Dynasty, A Fine Romance, Duchess of Duke Street).
- 1945 - Birth of Ernie Hudson in Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA; actor (Ghostbusters, Weeds, Oz, Desperate Housewives).
- 1946 - Birth of Eugene Levy in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; comedian/writer (SCTV).
- 1947 - Birth of Marilyn Hassett in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Bell Jar, Other Side of Mountain).
- 1947 - Birth of Wes Studi; actor (Last of the Mohicans).
- 1953 - Birth of Barry Livingston in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Ernie - My Three Sons, Sons and Daughters).
- 1954 - Birth of Bill Pullman; actor (Sommersby, A League of their Own, Independence Day).
- 1959 - Birth of Albert King; actor (BB King and Friends, Blues Alive).
- 1962 - Birth of Giulla Boschi; Italian actress (Act of Contrition, Bonus Malus).
- 1964 - Birth of Eric Brown in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Buzz - Mama's Family).
- 1970 - Birth of Sean Patrick Thomas; actor (The District).
- 1974 - Birth of Giovonni Ribisi; actor (Cory - My two Dads, New Leave it To Beaver, Friends, The Wonder Years).
- 1975 - Birth of Milla Jovovich in Kiev, Ukraine; actress (Return to the Blue Lagoon, Chaplin).
- 1979 - Birth of Jaimee Foxworth; actor (Judy Winslow - Family Matters).
- 1986 - Birth of Vanessa Zima; actress (Cavedweller, Murder One).
Deaths on December 17
- 1956 - Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at age 48.
- 1962 - Death of Thomas Mitchell at age 70 from cancer; actor (Outlaw, Uncle Billy - It's a Wonderful Life movie, The Mayor of the Town TV show, Glencannon TV show, Studio One TV show, Lux Video Theatre TV show, Ford TV Theatre TV show, O. Henry Playhouse TV show).
- 1975 - Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at age 67.
- 1978 - Death of Don Ellis at age 44; jazz musician and composer (The French Connection movie score (1973)).
- 1990 - Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at age 61.
- 1990 - Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Netherlands actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at age 79.
- 1992 - Death of Dana Andrews at age 83 from pneumonia and congestive heart failure in Los Alamitos, California, USA; actor (Laura movie, Best Years of Our Lives movie, I Was a Communist for the FBI radio show, Bright Promise TV show, Playhouse 90 TV show, Falcon Crest TV show, Ike TV show, Alcoa Premiere TV show, Ben Casey TV show, The Dick Powell Show TV show).
- 1993 - Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at age 50 of ovarian cancer.
- 1994 - Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at age 64.
- 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.
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