November 17 in recent years
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2006 (Friday)
2005 (Thursday)
2004 (Wednesday)
2003 (Monday)
2002 (Sunday)
2001 (Saturday)
2000 (Friday)
"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 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 43 days remaining until the end of the year.
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 was 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 holds its first session of the U.S. Congress .
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi .
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 .
1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia .
1839 - Giuseppe Verdi 's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan .
1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia -Zimbabwe .
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 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.
1878 - First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy .
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 at a historically black college or university , is founded at Howard University in Washington
1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day ). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey .
1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy .
1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union .
1939 - Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal ; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to concentration camps .
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 (his cable is ignored).
1950 - Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , was enthroned as Tibet 's head of state at the age of fifteen.
1953 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands , Kerry , Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt .
1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport , serving the Washington 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 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos .
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 .
1973 - Watergate scandal : In Orlando , US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
1973 - The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal , as a front of PCP(m-l) .
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.
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 , 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut , known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
2000 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia , kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes 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 Sears for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation .
2005 - Italy 's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani , becomes official 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).
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 )
1729 - Maria Antonietta of Spain , queen of Sardinia (d. 1785 )
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 )
1877 - Frank Calder , the first NHL President (d. 1943 )
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 (d. 2007 )
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, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1923 - Bert Sutcliffe , New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001 )
1923 - Hubertus Brandenburg , Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm
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 )
1935 - Bobby Joe Conrad , American football player
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 )
1940 - Luke Kelly , Irish folk music singer and banjo player
1942 - Martin Scorsese , American film director
1942 - Khang Khek Leu , Cambodian politician
1943 - Lauren Hutton , American actress
1944 - Jim Boeheim , Hall of Fame Coach
1944 - Danny DeVito , American actor
1944 - Rem Koolhaas , Dutch architect
1944 - Lorne Michaels , Canadian producer
1944 - Tom Seaver , baseball player
1944 - Gene Clark , American singer and songwriter (The Byrds ) (d. 1991 )
1945 - Elvin Hayes , American basketball player
1945 - Roland Joffé , Anglo-French film director
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
1955 - Yolanda King , daughter of Martin Luther King (d. 2007 )
1957 - Debbie Thrower , BBC News Reader
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 - Ralph Garman , American actor and radio personality
1964 - Mitch Williams , Major League Baseball player
1965 - Amanda Brown , Australian musician (The Go-Betweens ) and composer
1966 - Jeff Buckley , American musician (d. 1997 )
1966 - Sophie Marceau , French actress
1966 - Daisy Fuentes , Cuban model and actress
1966 - Kate Ceberano , Australian singer
1966 - Richard Fortus , American guitarist (Guns N' Roses )
1968 - Amber Michaels , German porn actress
1969 - Jean-Michel Saive , Belgian table tennis player
1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu , Japanese voice actor
1970 - Paul Allender , British guitarist (Cradle of Filth )
1972 - Leonard Roberts , American actor
1973 - Eli Marrero , American baseball player
1973 - Bernd Schneider , German footballer
1973 - Alexei Urmanov , Russian figure skater
1974 - Leslie Bibb , American actress
1975 - Lord Infamous , Rapper
1975 - Diane Neal , American actress
1976 - Brandon Call , American actor
1977 - Ryk Neethling , South African swimmer
1978 - Zoë Bell , New Zealand actress
1978 - Reggie Wayne , American football player
1979 - Brad Bradley , American professional wrestler
1979 - Matthew Spring , English footballer
1980 - Isaac Hanson , American musician (Hanson )
1980 - Mercedes Martinez , professional wrestler
1981 - Sarah Harding , English singer (Girls Aloud )
1982 - Katie Feenstra , American basketball player
1983 - Yiannis Bourousis , Greek basketball player
1983 - Ryan Braun , American baseball player
1983 - Nick Markakis , American baseball player
1983 - Christopher Paolini , American novelist
1986 - Nani , Portuguese football player
1990 - Shanica Knowles , American actress
1992 - Darian Weiss , American actor
1994 - Raquel Castro , American actress
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 )
885 - Queen Liutgard
1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary , daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207 )
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256 )
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan , 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 , 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 , 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 (b. 1682 )
1747 - Alain-René Lesage , French writer (b. 1668 )
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles , 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 )
1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst , German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794 )
1858 - Robert Owen , British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771 )
1897 - George Hendric Houghton , American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820 )
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes , Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847 )
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg , (b. 1817 )
1910 - Ralph Johnstone , pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver , Colorado .
1917 - Auguste Rodin , French sculptor (b. 1840 )
1922 - Robert Comtesse , Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847 )
1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai , Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865 )
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 , Russian 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 )
1973 - The Mother , Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878 )
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 )
1995 - Alan Hull , English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne )
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 )
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123 Familypedia people were born on November 17
118 Familypedia people died on November 17
106 Familypedia people were first married on November 17