| Weather History for December 17 |
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1903 Mankind flew for the very first time, as Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully tested their home made glider at Kitty Hawk, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. They had selected Kitty Hawk as their test site on advice from the Weather Bureau due to good, consistent northerly winds.
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1983 The temperature at Oklahoma City dropped below freezing. It did not rise above 32 degrees again until New Year's Eve, setting a record length of sub-freezing weather.
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Data courtesy of the National Weather Service
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