
Revolutionary Organization 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 I of Scotland 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 - England exploration, writer and courtier Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason. * 1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - France forces defeat the Austria in Italy. * 1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the Congress of the United States. * 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first United States 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. * 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate States of America forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege (the two week long siege and one failed attack was unsuccessful). * 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 language 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 United States Department of State 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 taking...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 American 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 - 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. * 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black United States hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran. * 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded. * 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 communism 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'' 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 - 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 Renaissance humanist (b. 1463) * 1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italy painter (d. 1572) * 1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Netherlands poet (d. 1679) * 1685 - Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749) * 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician (d. 1783) * 1755 - King (1814-1824) Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824) * 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, mathematician (d. 1868) * 1793 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, painter (d. 1865) * 1799 - Titian Peale, artist * 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, composer (d. 1876) * 1835 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915) * 1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, anarchist (d. 1912) * 1878 - Grace Abbott, social worker, activist (d. 1939) * 1887 - Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, United Kingdom commander in World War II (d. 1976) * 1888 - Kurt Goetz, author (d. 1960) * 1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966) * 1899 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (d. 1971) *1901 - Walter Hallstein, politician (d. 1982) * 1901 - Lee Strasberg, director, acting teacher (d. 1982) *1904 - Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (d. 1988) *1905 - Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935) * 1905 - Mischa Auer, United States actor (d. 1967) *1906 - Soichiro Honda, automobile pioneer (d. 1992) *1911 - Christian Fouchet, diplomat (d. 1974) *1916 - Shelby Foote, historian *1925 - Rock Hudson, actor (d. 1985) * 1925 - Charles Mackerras, American conductor *1929 - Norm Zauchin, Major League Baseball player (d. 1999) *1937 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer (d. 1995) *1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, singer *1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001) *1942 - Martin Scorsese, film director *1943 - Lauren Hutton, actress *1944 - Danny DeVito, actor * 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, architect * 1944 - Lorne Michaels, producer * 1944 - Tom Seaver, Baseball Hall of Fame player *1945 - Elvin Hayes, Basketball Hall of Fame player *1948 - Howard Dean, politician, US Democratic Party Chairman *1949 - Jon Avnet, producer, director *1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress *1960 - RuPaul, actor *1966 - Jeff Buckley, musician (d. 1997) * 1966 - Daisy Fuentes, model, actress * 1966 - Sophie Marceau, actress *1973 - Alexei Urmanov, figure skating champion *1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player == Deaths == * 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor * 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, philosopher * 1558 - Queen Mary I of England * 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518) * 1592 - King John III of Sweden * 1796 - Catherine II of Russia * 1917 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor * 1929 - Herman Hollerith, statistician * 1936 - Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer * 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croat politician (b. 1864) * 1940 - Eric Gill, sculpture, typography and writer * 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer * 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (b. 1911) * 1982 - Eduard Tubin, composer * 1989 - Gus Farace, Mafia associate/fugitive (murdered) * 2001 - Michael Karoli, guitarist, former member of Can (band) * 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician * 2003 - Arthur Conley, soul singer * 2003 - Don Gibson, singer-songwriter * 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Sweden Sport wrestling (b. 1970) * 2004 - Samuel Karokikki, athlete (b. 1943) * 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, ice hockey player (b. 1941) ==Holidays and observances== * International Students' Day (note: not specifically for international students) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/17 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 16 - November 18 - October 17 - December 17 -- historical anniversaries ga:17 Samhain
--User:Maveric149 00:49, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:November 17 selected anniversaries - Template talk:November 17 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:November_17_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *1985 - ''Phrack'' magazine started. Trivial. Underground ezine. Nuff said. --User:Maveric149 07:59, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC) I've removed: *1988 - The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet. I haven't been able to find a source for this, and it does seem implausible unless a suitably odd definition of "Internet" is used (the first international connection of Usenet (to Canada) was a good seven years earlier, and the term was in use back ''then''... If anyone does know what event it refers to and wants to add it back, feel free; possibly also add to History of the Internet? User:Shimgray 21:41, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I think Norway was the second country to get connected. User:Emuzesto 11:18, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC) ::Seems unlikely somehow; I suspect however it's defined, it's likely to end up having been Canada. Don't suppose you know the basis of the Norwegian claim, do you? User:Shimgray 11:35, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1993 - Atri Rohan Banerjee Not a notable person. Main article was removed by others for the same reason. --User:Maebmij 16:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Revolutionary Organization 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 I of Scotland 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 - England exploration, writer and courtier Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason. * 1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - France forces defeat the Austria in Italy. * 1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the Congress of the United States. * 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first United States 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. * 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate States of America forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege (the two week long siege and one failed attack was unsuccessful). * 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 language 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 United States Department of State 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 taking...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 American 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 - 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. * 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black United States hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran. * 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded. * 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 communism 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'' 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 - 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 Renaissance humanist (b. 1463) * 1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italy painter (d. 1572) * 1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Netherlands poet (d. 1679) * 1685 - Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749) * 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician (d. 1783) * 1755 - King (1814-1824) Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824) * 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, mathematician (d. 1868) * 1793 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, painter (d. 1865) * 1799 - Titian Peale, artist * 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, composer (d. 1876) * 1835 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915) * 1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, anarchist (d. 1912) * 1878 - Grace Abbott, social worker, activist (d. 1939) * 1887 - Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, United Kingdom commander in World War II (d. 1976) * 1888 - Kurt Goetz, author (d. 1960) * 1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966) * 1899 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (d. 1971) *1901 - Walter Hallstein, politician (d. 1982) * 1901 - Lee Strasberg, director, acting teacher (d. 1982) *1904 - Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (d. 1988) *1905 - Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935) * 1905 - Mischa Auer, United States actor (d. 1967) *1906 - Soichiro Honda, automobile pioneer (d. 1992) *1911 - Christian Fouchet, diplomat (d. 1974) *1916 - Shelby Foote, historian *1925 - Rock Hudson, actor (d. 1985) * 1925 - Charles Mackerras, American conductor *1929 - Norm Zauchin, Major League Baseball player (d. 1999) *1937 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer (d. 1995) *1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, singer *1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001) *1942 - Martin Scorsese, film director *1943 - Lauren Hutton, actress *1944 - Danny DeVito, actor * 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, architect * 1944 - Lorne Michaels, producer * 1944 - Tom Seaver, Baseball Hall of Fame player *1945 - Elvin Hayes, Basketball Hall of Fame player *1948 - Howard Dean, politician, US Democratic Party Chairman *1949 - Jon Avnet, producer, director *1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress *1960 - RuPaul, actor *1966 - Jeff Buckley, musician (d. 1997) * 1966 - Daisy Fuentes, model, actress * 1966 - Sophie Marceau, actress *1973 - Alexei Urmanov, figure skating champion *1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player == Deaths == * 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor * 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, philosopher * 1558 - Queen Mary I of England * 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518) * 1592 - King John III of Sweden * 1796 - Catherine II of Russia * 1917 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor * 1929 - Herman Hollerith, statistician * 1936 - Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer * 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croat politician (b. 1864) * 1940 - Eric Gill, sculpture, typography and writer * 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer * 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (b. 1911) * 1982 - Eduard Tubin, composer * 1989 - Gus Farace, Mafia associate/fugitive (murdered) * 2001 - Michael Karoli, guitarist, former member of Can (band) * 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician * 2003 - Arthur Conley, soul singer * 2003 - Don Gibson, singer-songwriter * 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Sweden Sport wrestling (b. 1970) * 2004 - Samuel Karokikki, athlete (b. 1943) * 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, ice hockey player (b. 1941) ==Holidays and observances== * International Students' Day (note: not specifically for international students) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/17 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 16 - November 18 - October 17 - December 17 -- historical anniversaries ga:17 Samhain
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--User:Maveric149 00:49, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:November 17 selected anniversaries - Template talk:November 17 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:November_17_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *1985 - ''Phrack'' magazine started. Trivial. Underground ezine. Nuff said. --User:Maveric149 07:59, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC) I've removed: *1988 - The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet. I haven't been able to find a source for this, and it does seem implausible unless a suitably odd definition of "Internet" is used (the first international connection of Usenet (to Canada) was a good seven years earlier, and the term was in use back ''then''... If anyone does know what event it refers to and wants to add it back, feel free; possibly also add to History of the Internet? User:Shimgray 21:41, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I think Norway was the second country to get connected. User:Emuzesto 11:18, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC) ::Seems unlikely somehow; I suspect however it's defined, it's likely to end up having been Canada. Don't suppose you know the basis of the Norwegian claim, do you? User:Shimgray 11:35, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1993 - Atri Rohan Banerjee Not a notable person. Main article was removed by others for the same reason. --User:Maebmij 16:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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