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17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece .
November 17 leap years ), with 44 remaining.
Events
1292 - (Julian calendar ) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland .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 went on trial for treason .1777 - Articles of Confederation submited 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 .1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).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 Merranean 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 .1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). (NOTE: Later the Mensheviks became the majority party, meaning that technically the Mensheviks became the bolsheviks and the Bolsheviks mensheviks).1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI went on exile in Italy .1941 - World War II : Attack on Pearl Harbor - Joseph Grew , the United States ambassador to Japan , cables the State Department that Japan had plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor , Hawaii (his cable was ignored).1962 - In Washington, DC , US President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport .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 takingw/.We are making progress." (two months later the Tet Offensive made him regret his words).1968 - NBC preempts the final 1:05 minutes of a very close NFL football match between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders with Heidi 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 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70 .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, Florida , US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing ors "I am not a crook."1973 - Student uprising against the military regime in Athens , Greece .
1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa Portugal , as a front of PCP(m-l) .1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.1985 - The first ion 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 peaceful student demonstration in Prague is severely beaten back by the communist riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeded on December 29 ).1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture , Japan became active again and erupted.1993 - Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News 1995 - Public Radio International 's radio program This American Life 1997 - In Luxor , Egypt , 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police killed the assailants).2000 - Catastrophical 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 Governor of California .
Births
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Italian humanist (b. 1463 )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 de Varennes et de la Vérendrye , French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749 )1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert , French mathematician (d. 1783 )1755 - King 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 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake , English painter (d. 1865 )1799 - Titian Peale , American artist (d. 1885 )1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros , Austrian composer (d. 1876 )1835 - Andrew L. Harris , American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915 )1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre , American anarchist (d. 1912 )1878 - Grace Abbott , American social worker and activist (d. 1939 )1887 - Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery , British World War II commander (d. 1976 )1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes , Mexican author (d. 1966 )1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin , Russian philosopher (d. 1975 )1896 - Lev Vygotsky , Russian psychologist (d. 1934 )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 Belgium (d. 1935 )1905 - Mischa Auer , American actor (d. 1967 )
1906 - Soichiro Honda , Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1992 )1911 - Christian Fouchet , French diplomat (d. 1974 )1916 - Shelby Foote , American historian (d. 2005 )1925 - Rock Hudson , American actor (d. 1985 )1925 - Charles Mackerras , American conductor
1928 - Rance Howard , American actor1929 - Norm Zauchin , baseball player (d. 1999 )1936 - Dalia Rabikovich , Israeli poet (d. 2005 )1937 - Peter Cook , English comedian, satirist, and writer (d. 1995 )1938 - Gordon Lightfoot , Canadian singer1939 - Auberon Waugh , British author (d. 2001 )1942 - Martin Scorsese , American film director1943 - Lauren Hutton , American actress1944 - Danny DeVito , American actor1944 - Rem Koolhaas , Dutch architect
1944 - Lorne Michaels , Canadian producer
1944 - Tom Seaver , baseball player
1945 - Elvin Hayes , American basketball player1948 - Howard Dean , American politician1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , American actress1960 - RuPaul , American actor1960 - Jonathan Ross , British television presenter
1966 - Jeff Buckley , American musician (d. 1997 )1966 - Daisy Fuentes , Cuban model and actress
1966 - Sophie Marceau , French actress
1969 - Jean-Michel Saive , Belgian table tennis player1970 - Paul Allender , English singer (Cradle of Filth )1973 - Alexei Urmanov , Russian figure skater1977 - Ryk Neethling , South African swimmer1978 - Reggie Wayne , American football player1982 - Katie Feenstra , American basketball player
Deaths
375 - Valentinian I , Roman Emperor (b. 321 )641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593 )1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary , daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (b. 1207 )1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel , English politician (b. 1285 )1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Italian philosopher (b. 1463 )1558 - Queen 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 - King 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 composer1665 - John Earle , English bishop1668 - Joseph Alleine , English non-conformist 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 )1747 - Alain-René Lesage , French writer (b. 1668 )1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , English statesman (b. 1693 )1917 - Auguste Rodin , French sculptor (b. 1840 )1929 - Herman Hollerith , American statistician (b. 1860 )1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink , Austrian contralto (b. 1861 )1937 - Jack Worrall , Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (b. 1860 )1938 - Ante Trumbić , Croatian politician (b. 1864 )1940 - Eric Gill , English sculptor and writer (b. 1882 )1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer (b. 1887 )1968 - Mervyn Peake , British writer and illustrator (b. 1911 )1982 - Eduard Tubin , Estonian composer (b. 1905 )1989 - Gus Farace , American gangster (murdered) (b. 1960 )1990 - Robert Hofstadter , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915 )2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904 )2001 - Michael Karoli , German guitarist (Can ) (b. 1948 )2002 - Abba Eban , Israeli diplomat and politician (b. 1915 )2003 - Arthur Conley , American singer (b. 1946 )2003 - Don Gibson , American singer and songwriter (b. 1928 )
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg , Swedish wrestler (b. 1970 )2004 - Samuel Karokikki , Nauru athlete (b. 1943 )
2004 - Alexander Ragulin , Russian hockey player (b. 1941 )
Holidays and observances
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