''17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece.''
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'''November_17''' is the 321st day of the year (322nd in Leap_years), with 44 remaining.
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== 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 goes on trial for Treason.
* 1777 - Articles_of_Confederation 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,_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 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.
* 1903 - The Russian_Social_Democratic_Labor_Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
* 1911 - Formation of Omega_Psi_Phi Fraternity
* 1919 - George V, then King of the United Kingdom, proclaimed Armistice_Day (later Remembrance_Day), saying "that at the hour when the Armistice came into force, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, there may be for the brief space of two minutes a complete suspension of all our normal activities … so that in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead." The idea was first suggested by Edward_George_Honey.
* 1922 - Former Ottoman_sultan Mehmed_VI went on exile in Italy.
* 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, Hawaii (his cable is 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 taking...We are making progress."
* 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'', prompting an outrage amongst sport fans.
* 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 editors "I am not a crook."
* 1973 - Student uprising against the military regime in Athens, Greece.
* 1974 - ''Aliança Operário-Camponesa'' (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
* 1983 - The Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation 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 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'' broadcasts its first episode, "New Beginnings".
* 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.
* 2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears_Holdings_Corporation.
== Births ==
* 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
* 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, British 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)
* 1857 - Joseph_Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)
* 1866 - Voltairine_de_Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
* 1868 - Korbinian_Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
* 1878 - Grace_Abbott, American social worker and activist (d. 1939)
* 1878 - Lise_Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
* 1887 - Sir Bernard_Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
* 1895 - Mikhail_Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
* 1895 - Gregorio_López_y_Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
* 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)
*1922 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine
* 1923 - Bert_Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
* 1925 - Rock_Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
* 1925 - Sir Charles_Mackerras, American-born conductor
*1928 - Rance_Howard, American actor
*1929 - Norm_Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
*1936 - Dalia_Rabikovich, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
*1937 - Peter_Cook, British comedian, satirist, and writer (d. 1995)
*1938 - Gordon_Lightfoot, Canadian singer
*1939 - Auberon_Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
*1942 - Martin_Scorsese, American film director
*1943 - Lauren_Hutton, American actress
*1944 - Danny_DeVito, American actor
* 1944 - Rem_Koolhaas, Dutch architect
* 1944 - Lorne_Michaels, Canadian producer
* 1944 - Tom_Seaver, baseball player
*1945 - Elvin_Hayes, American basketball player
*1946 - Terry_E._Branstad, Former Governor of Iowa
*1948 - Howard_Dean, American politician
*1951 - Stephen_Root, American actor
*1952 - Ties_Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
*1958 - Mary_Elizabeth_Mastrantonio, American actress
*1960 - Jonathan_Ross, British television presenter and radio broadcaster
* 1960 - RuPaul, American actor
*1966 - Jeff_Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
* 1966 - Daisy_Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
* 1966 - Sophie_Marceau, French actress
* 1966 - Kate_Ceberano, Australian singer
*1968 - Amber_Michaels, German porn actress
*1969 - Jean-Michel_Saive, Belgian table tennis player
*1970 - Paul_Allender, British singer (Cradle_of_Filth)
*1973 - Alexei_Urmanov, Russian figure skater
*1975 - Diane_Neal, American actress
*1976 - Brandon_Call, American actor
*1977 - Ryk_Neethling, South African swimmer
*1978 - Reggie_Wayne, American football player
*1982 - Katie_Feenstra, American basketball player
== Deaths ==
*375 - Valentinian_I, Roman_Emperor (b. 321)
*641 - Emperor_Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
*680 - Hilda_of_Whitby (b. 614)
*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 composer
*1665 - John_Earle, English bishop
*1668 - 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, British statesman (b. 1693)
*1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
*1789 - Charlotte,_Duchess_of_Albany, only child of Bonnie_Prince_Charlie (b. 1753)
*1808 - David_Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
*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, British 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)
*1982 - Leonid_Borisovitch_Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
*1986 - Georges_Besse, president of Renault (b. 1927)
*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 - Alexander_Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
*2005 - Marek_Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
==Holidays and observances==
*R.C. Saints - Elisabeth_of_Hungary; Gregory_of_Tours; Hilda_of_Whitby; Hugh_of_Lincoln
*Also see November_17_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
*International_Students_Day
*Life_Day
== External links ==
* BBC: On This Day
* The History Channel: This Day in History
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November_16 - November_18 - October_17 - December_17 -- listing of all days
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