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What happened in history on this day: November 17?
On November 17 in ...
- 794 - Japan's emperor Kammu declares he is moving his capital to Heian-kyo (Kyoto).
- 1231 - Death of St. Elisabeth von Thüringen (born 1207 in Hungary); devoted to caring for the sick, most notably lepers.
- 1278 - 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins.
- 1292 - King Edward of England, acting as lord superior of Scotland, gives judgement in favor of John Balliol as new King of Scotland.
- 1503 - Birth of Il Bronzino Florentine painter (Eleanor de Toledo and her Son).
- 1558 - Queen Mary I, the monarch of England and Ireland, dies and is succeeded by her half-sister, Elizabeth.
- 1587 - Birth of Joost van den Vondel Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha).
- 1642 - Prince Rupert's army takes and sacks Brentford, England.
- 1717 - Birth of Jean d'Alembert Fr, mathematician/philosopher (Traité de Dynamique).
- 1734 - John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York colonial governor; later acquitted.
- 1755 - Birth of Louis XVIII first post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24).
- 1790 - Birth of August Ferdinand Mobius; mathematician, inventor (Mobius strip).
- 1796 - Battle of Arcole: Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy.
- 1799 - Birth of Titian Ramsey Peale; US artist/naturalist (American Ornithology).
- 1800 - US Congress meets for the first time in Washington, D.C.
- 1858 - Origin of Modified Julian Period.
- 1862 - CSA Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns.
- 1869 - The 190km Suez Canal in Egypt from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea is opened for traffic. First ship through is French imperial yacht l'Aigle, followed by military ships of Austria, Britain, and Russia, total 50 ships.
- 1875 - American Theosophical Society is founded by Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott.
- 1878 - Birth of Grace Abbott in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA; social worker (US Children Bureau).
- 1884 - Cops arrest boxer John L Sullivan in second round for being "cruel".
- 1887 - Birth of Bernard L Montgomery; British general (WW II-African campaign).
- 1890 - Birth of Jack Cusack; pro football pioneer (Canton Bulldogs).
- 1897 - Birth of Sara Haden in Galveston, Texas, USA; actress (A Family Affair).
- 1900 - Birth of Marcel Dalio in Paris, France; actor (Casablanca).
- 1901 - Birth of Lee Strasberg; director/instructs actors (Somewhere in the Night).
- 1904 - Birth of Isamu Noguchi; sculptor (1963 Fine Arts Medal).
- 1905 - Birth of Mischa Auer in Saint Petersburg, Russia; actor (My Man Godfrey).
- 1911 - Birth of William Tannen in New York City, New York, USA; actor (The Adventures of Kit Carson, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Daniel Boone, Rawhide, Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, Lone Ranger, The Roy Rogers Show).
- 1914 - Birth of Archie Campbell in Bullsgap, Tennessee, USA; broadcaster/comedian (Hee Haw TV show).
- 1916 - Birth of Frank Maxwell in the Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Our Man Higgins TV show, Felony Squad TV show, Return to Peyton Place TV show, The Young Marrieds TV show, General Hospital TV show).
- 1917 - Birth of Jack Lescoulie in Sacramento, California, USA; announcer and TV host (Today Show TV show, Jackie Gleason Show TV show).
- 1919 - Birth of Hershy Kay in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; composer/arranger (Olympic Hymn).
- 1925 - Birth of Rock Hudson AKA Roy Harold Scherer Junior in Winnetka, Illinois, USA; actor (McMillan and Wife TV show, Pillow Talk movie, A Farewell to Arms movie).
- 1926 - NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their first game, beat Toronto Saint Patricks 4-1.
- 1927 - Tornado hits Washington DC.
- 1929 - Birth of Edgar White; American yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952).
- 1930 - Birth of Bob Mathias in Tulare, California, USA; decathlete (Olympic-gold-1948, 1952).
- 1930 - Birth of David Amram in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; composer (Splendor in the Grass).
- 1935 - Birth of Anton Sailer in Austria; skier (Olympic-3 golds-1956).
- 1937 - Birth of Gerry McGee; guitarist (The Ventures - Walk Don't Run").
- 1937 - Birth of Peter Cook in Torquay, England; actor/comedian (Bedazzled).
- 1937 - Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement.
- 1938 - Birth of Gordon Lightfoot in Ontario, Canada; folksinger ("Sundown").
- 1938 - Birth of Peter Snell in New Zealand; 800m/1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960, 1964).
- 1938 - US Secretary of State Cordell Hull signs trade pacts with Great Britain and Canada.
- 1938 - Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws.
- 1940 - Green Bay Packers become first NFL team to travel by plane.
- 1941 - Birth of Gene Clark in rural Missouri, USA; guitarist/songwriter (The Byrds, New Christy Minstrels).
- 1942 - The office of US Alien Property Custodian operating under the "Trading With the Enemy Act" seizes Silesian-American Corporation, charging the company with being a Nazi front company supplying coal to Germany.
- 1942 - Birth of Martin Scorsese in Queens, New York, USA; director (Mean Streets, Last Temptation of Christ).
- 1943 - Birth of Lauren Hutton in Charleston, South Carolina, USA; actress/model (American Gigolo, Lassiter, Central Park West, Falcon Crest, Paper Dolls).
- 1944 - Birth of Danny De Vito in Neptune, New Jersey, USA; actor (Taxi, Ruthless People, Twins, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia).
- 1944 - Birth of Tom Seaver; pitcher (New York Mets, 300 game winner, Cy Young award winner 1969, 1973, 1975).
- 1944 - Birth of Lorne Michaels in Canada; producer (Saturday Night Live TV show).
- 1945 - Birth of Elvin Hayes; NBA star (San Diego Rockets, Houston Rockets, Baltimore Bullets).
- 1945 - New world air speed record 606mph (975kph) set by HJ Wilson of Royal Air Force.
- 1946 - Birth of Martin Barre; rock guitarist (Jethro Tull - "Aqualung").
- 1948 - Birth of Jaime Huelamo in Spain; cyclist (Olympic-bronze-1972) drug disqualified.
- 1948 - Great Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry.
- 1950 - Birth of Roland Matthes in the German Democratic Republic; 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-gold-1968, 1972).
- 1951 - Birth of Dean Paul Martin in Santa Monica, California, USA; actor (Billy - Misfits of Science).
- 1951 - Birth of Stephen Root; actor (West Wing, American Dad, King of the Hill).
- 1952 - Birth of Roman Codreanu in Romania; wrestler (Olympic-1980).
- 1955 - Birth of Peter Cox; rocker (Go West - "Call Me", "Don't Look Down").
- 1956 - Fullback Jim Brown, Syracuse, scores 43 points (NCAA record) versus Colgate.
- 1958 - Birth of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Oak Park, Illinois, USA; actress (Color of Money, Without a Trace).
- 1959 - Birth of William R Moses in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Cole - Falcon Crest, Melrose Place, Perry Mason TV movies).
- 1959 - De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond.
- 1961 - Birth of Merete Van Kemp in Denmark; actress (Grace - Dallas, Princess Daisy).
- 1962 - Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa 1910-1957), dies at age 92 in Miami, Florida.
- 1962 - Birth of Eric Olson in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Apple's Way).
- 1962 - US President John Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington DC.
- 1963 - Birth of Dylan Walsh; actor (Nip/Tuck, Brooklyn Bridge).
- 1964 - Birth of Daisy Fuentes in Havana, Cuba; VJ (MTV International).
- 1964 - Birth of Marina Tcherkasova; American pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980).
- 1965 - William D. Eckert is selected by the owners to become US Major League Baseball's fourth commissioner. The retired Air Force Lieutenant General succeeds Ford Frick.
- 1966 - Birth of Sophie Marceau in Paris, France; actress (La Boum, L'Amour Braque).
- 1966 - Birth of Daisy Fuentes; Actress-model (Loving, Style World, I Spike).
- 1966 - Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour).
- 1967 - Birth of Ben Wilson; rock musician (Blues Traveler).
- 1967 - Birth of Ronald DaVoe; rocker (New Edition - "Heart Break", Bell Biv DeVoe).
- 1967 - Surveyor 6 becomes first man-made object to lift off the Moon.
- 1968 - Birth of Jeff Allen; rhythm-and-blues musician (Mint Condition).
- 1968 - NBC TV cuts off broadcast of New York Jets/Oakland Raiders football game to begin regularly scheduled TV show Heidi. The Raiders, trailing the Jets, score two touchdowns in nine seconds to win 43-32. NBC is flooded with irate audience calls, leading to institution of "program delay" by the TV networks until a game is over.
- 1970 - Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon.
- 1971 - Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret - The Rogues), dies at age 83.
- 1973 - Birth of Leslie Bibb; actress (Crossing Jordan, Line of Fire, Big Easy).
- 1973 - US President Richard Nixon tells Associated Press "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook".
- 1974 - Birth of Brandon Call; actor (Baywatch, Blind Fury, Step by Step).
- 1976 - Birth of Brandon Call; actor (Step by Step, The Charmings).
- 1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel.
- 1977 - Miss World Contest - Miss United Kingdom wears $9,500 platinum bikini.
- 1978 - Birth of Rachel McAdams in London, Ontario, Canada; actress (Slings and Arrows).
- 1979 - Death of John Glascock at age 26 following heart surgery; bass player (Jethro Tull).
- 1979 - New York Stars (Women's Professional Basketball League) home opener at Madison Square Gardens in New York City.
- 1979 - Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
- 1980 - Death of Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi Sufi order (born 1916).
- 1980 - Birth of Clarke Isaac Hanson in Tulsa, Oklahoma; American guitarist (Hanson - "MMMBop").
- 1981 - Birth of Sarah Harding; British singer (Girls Aloud).
- 1981 - Death of Bob Eberly of a heart attack at age 65; big band singer (Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra, "Green Eyes", "Tangerine and Amapola", "The Breeze and I", "Besame Mucho").
- 1981 - NBA New York Knicks' Bill Cartwright ties record of 19 of 19 free throws.
- 1982 - Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at age 69.
- 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.
- 1984 - Golden State Warriors' player scores 59 points losing to New Jersey Nets 124-110.
- 1984 - New York Islanders score 20 assists against New York Rangers.
- 1985 - New York Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay Buccaneers 62-28.
- 1986 - Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan - My Favorite Martian), dies at age 71.
- 1987 - In the Gulf of Alaska, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs.
- 1987 - Death of Irene Wicker at age 81; singer/actress (Singing Lady).
- 1988 - Birth of Justin Cooper; actor (Brother's Keeper, Same Old Days, Boys are Back).
- 1989 - Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year Kansas City Royals contract.
- 1989 - Buena Vista releases the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film The Little Mermaid to theaters.
- 1989 - In Czechoslovakia a student demonstration in Prague is severely beaten back by riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the Communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
- 1990 - Death of Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915).
- 1991 - Detroit Lions player Mike Utley is paralyzed in a game versus Los Angeles Rams.
- 1993 - A teacher and ten children, all from Hagley RC High School near Birmingham, United Kingdom, are killed in a minibus crash on the M40 in Warwickshire.
- 1993 - US Congress votes for NAFTA.
- 1994 - Birth of Raquel Castro; actress (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Third Watch).
- 1994 - Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds resigns.
- 1995 - MGM releases the film GoldenEye to theaters.
- 1997 - Death of John Wimber, American leader of the Vineyard Movement (born 1934).
- 1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police kill the assailants).
- 1998 - Death of Esther Rolle at age 78 in Culver City, California, USA; actress (Good Times (Emmy award)).
- 2000 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, 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.
- 2000 - Pittsburgh Pirates' catcher Jason Kendall signs a US$60 million, six-year contract extension.
- 2002 - Death of Abba Eban, Israeli foreign affair minister (born 1915).
- 2003 - Spink and Pascal Behr Philatelie sells at auction a block of four France 1849 1-franc Ceres stamps, unused, for $1,068,450, a record for a French philatelic item.
- 2003 - Death of Don Gibson at age 75 of natural causes; American country music legend ("Oh, Lonesome Me", "Sea of Heartbreak").
- 2004 - (to November 21) The APEC Summit is held in Santiago, Chile.
- 2006 - Frank Thomas agrees to a $18.12 million, two-year deal to join the Toronto Blue Jays.
- 2006 - Sony releases the film Casino Royale to theaters.
- 2006 - Sony releases the PlayStation 3 video game system in the USA.
- 2010 - Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.
- 2020 - The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 55 million worldwide.
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