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• Ségolène Royal (pictured) wins the Socialist Party's nomination to run for President of France in next year's election; she becomes France's first-ever female presidential candidate representing a major party.
• Joseph Kabila is declared winner of the election for the presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His opponent, Jean-Pierre Bemba, alleges fraud.
• The Parliament of South Africa votes to legalize same-sex marriage.
• Nadarajah Raviraj, a human rights lawyer and legislator from the Tamil National Alliance, is assassinated in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• A new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan adopted by the Joghorku Keneš is signed into law by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

November 17: International Students' Day

• 1558 - Elizabeth I (pictured) ascended the English Throne.
• 1720 - Pirate captain Calico Jack and his entire crew except Anne Bonny and Mary Read were hanged.
• 1869 - The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, was inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
• 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
• 1969 - The SALT I negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States began in Helsinki.
• 1989 - A student demonstration in Prague was quelled by riot police, sparking the Velvet Revolution aimed at overthrowing the Czechoslovakian communist government.

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