November 17

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"17 November" is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising.

November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years), with 44 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

[edit] Events

284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
473 - The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
1183 - Battle of Mizushima.
1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1511 - Spain and England ally against France.
1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1659 - Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoe.
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
1827 - The Delta Phi Fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Greater Colombia.
1839 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
1856 - American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
1858 - Modified Julian Day zero.
1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
1886 - Premiere of the Mignon opera by Ambroise Thomas.
1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
1903 - Dahomey (current Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
1911 - The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity founded at a historically black college or university, was founded at Howard University in Washington, DC.
1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaimed Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.
1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI went on exile in Italy.
1933 - United States recognize Soviet Union.
1939 - The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
1941 - World War II: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan has plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable is ignored).
1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1968 - The Heidi Game: NBC preempts the final 1:05 minutes of a very close AFL football game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders with Heidi, prompting an outrage amongst sport fans.
1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis condemned to death by the Greek Colonels' Junta.
1969 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
1970 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1970 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70.
1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
1973 - Student uprising against the military regime in Athens, Greece.
1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS.
1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.
1985 - The first edition of Phrack is released. it became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence.
1988 - The Netherlands become the second country to be connected to the Internet.
1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (The police then kill the assailants).
1997 - Mario Lemieux inducted into the NHL Hockey Hall of Fame
2000 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. it is one of the worst catastrophies in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated as Governor of California.
2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying and Co.">Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes officialised in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
2006 - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).

[edit] Births

9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
1681 - Pierre François le Courayer , French theologian (d. 1776)
1685 - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1783)
1755 - Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
1793 - Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
1827 - Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
1835 - Andrew L. Harris, Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
1854 - Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934)
1857 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)
1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
1868 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
1878 - Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
1887 - Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)
1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
1897 - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
1901 - Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982)
1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
1902 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
1905 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1992)
1906 - Rollie Stiles, American Baseball Player
1907 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
1922 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, or Medicine">Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1925 - Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor
1927 - Robert Brown, American actor
1928 - Rance Howard, American actor
1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
1931 - Yaruch Bann, French poet
1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
1946 - Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
1949 - Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, British businessman
1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
1955 - Dennis Maruk, Canadian Hockey Player
1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
1960 - Jonathan Ross, British presenter
1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
1960 - RuPaul, American drag entertainer
1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
1964 - Mitch Williams, Major League Baseball Player
1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress
1969 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
1969 - Kianna Dior, Korean-Canadian porn star
1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
1972 - Leonard Roberts, American actor
1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer
1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player
1975 - Diane Neal, American actress
1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
1979 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
1983 - Christopher Paolini, author
1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor
1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress

[edit] Deaths

375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
1665 - John Earle, English bishop
1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate
1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1947 - Victor Serge, French anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
1980 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (b. 1916)
1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)

[ and observances">edit] Holidays and observances

R.C. Saints - Elisabeth of Hungary; Gregory of Tours; Hilda of Whitby; Hugh of Lincoln
International Students Day
Slovakia - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day commemorating the beginning of the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
Shogi Day

[edit] External links

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