17 December — memory beta

Events which occurred on the 17th of December.

Events

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)

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.