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What happened in history on this day: November 17?
On November 17 in ...
- 1800 - US Congress meets for the first time in Washington, D.C.
- 1875 - American Theosophical Society is founded by Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott.
- 1889 - Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago to Portland and San Francisco.
- 1927 - Tornado hits Washington DC.
- 1938 - US Secretary of State Cordell Hull signs trade pacts with Great Britain and Canada.
- 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.
- 1962 - US President John Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington DC.
- 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".
- 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 - The former New Orleans Mint building re-opens as the Louisiana State Museum.
- 1987 - In the Gulf of Alaska, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs.
- 1993 - US Congress votes for NAFTA.
- 2006 - Sony releases the PlayStation 3 video game system in the USA.
Births on November 17
- 1878 - Birth of Grace Abbott in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA; social worker (US Children Bureau).
- 1897 - Birth of Sara Haden in Galveston, Texas, USA; actress (A Family Affair).
- 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).
- 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).
- 1941 - Birth of Gene Clark in rural Missouri, USA; guitarist/songwriter (The Byrds, New Christy Minstrels).
- 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).
- 1951 - Birth of Dean Paul Martin in Santa Monica, California, USA; actor (Billy - Misfits of Science).
- 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).
- 1962 - Birth of Eric Olson in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Apple's Way).
- 1980 - Birth of Clarke Isaac Hanson in Tulsa, Oklahoma; American guitarist (Hanson - "MMMBop").
Deaths on November 17
- 1962 - Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa 1910-1957), dies at age 92 in Miami, Florida.
- 1990 - Death of Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915).
- 1997 - Death of John Wimber, American leader of the Vineyard Movement (born 1934).
- 1998 - Death of Esther Rolle at age 78 in Culver City, California, USA; actress (Good Times (Emmy award)).
- 2003 - Death of Don Gibson at age 75 of natural causes; American country music legend ("Oh, Lonesome Me", "Sea of Heartbreak").
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