| December 17th 1991 | | Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts
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| December 17th 1991 | | NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
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| December 17th 1991 | | Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
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| December 17th 1991 | | Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
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| December 17th 1992 | | "Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
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| December 17th 1992 | | Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
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| December 17th 1993 | | Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
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| December 17th 1993 | | Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
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| December 17th 1993 | | Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
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| December 17th 1993 | | Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
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| December 17th 1994 | | KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
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| December 17th 1995 | | "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 23 perfs
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