December 17

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1577	Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.	The Church	Secret Corners	Blurred Crusade
2.	1790	Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.	Fennesz	The Stone of Impermanence	Venice
3.	1837	Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.	Elf Power	Palace of the Fire	Creatures
4.	1862	American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.	The Rites	Sound Familiar	Your Last Rites
5.	1903	The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.	Pulsar	Flight	The Strands of the Future
6.	1969	Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."	Bacamarte	UFO	Depois do Fim
7.	1989	The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.	King Crimson	Happy Family	Lizard
8.	N/A	International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (United States)	Piebald	Sex Sells And (Unfortunately) I'm Buying	We Are The Only Friends We Have

(Historical facts about December 17 are from Wikipedia.)