1777 - France recognizes independence of colonies of America
1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1927 – Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
1928 – Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
Birthdays
1778 – Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
1908 - Willard Libby's Birthday - Libby developed Carbon-14 dating technique - Nobel Prize Winner
http://chemistry.about.com/b/2011/12/16/on-this-day-in-science-history-december-17-carbon-14-dating.htm
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17 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
http://nraombakc.blogspot.in/2012/11/17-december-knowledge-history-science.html
17 December - History of India
BBC - 17 December Important Events
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