November 17: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece.

November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in 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 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.

• 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)
• 1897 - Frank Fay American actor first husband of Barbara Stanwyck (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 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)
• 1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
• 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

• 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)
• 1905 - Grand Duke Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 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)

• 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

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