November 17
17 November is also the name of a
Marxist group in
Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the
Athens Polytechnic uprising.
is the 321st day of the year (322nd in
leap years), with 44 remaining.
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1292 - (
Julian calendar)
John Balliol becomes King of
Scotland.
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1558 -
Elizabethan era begins: Queen
Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister
Elizabeth I of England.
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1603 -
English explorer,
writer and
courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for
treason.
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1777 -
Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
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1796 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Battle of Arcole -
French forces defeat the
Austrians in
Italy.
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1800 - The
United States Capitol building in
Washington, DC holds its first session of the
U.S. Congress.
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1812 -- Napoleonic Wars: Battle of
Krasnoe.
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1820 - Captain
Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first
American to see
Antarctica (the
Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
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1839 -
Giuseppe Verdi's first opera,
Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in
Milan.
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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.
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1858 - Modified
Julian Day zero.
VMS epoch.
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1863 -
American Civil War:
Siege of Knoxville begins -
Confederate forces led by General
James Longstreet place
Knoxville, Tennessee under
siege.
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1869 - In
Egypt, the
Suez Canal, linking the
Mediterranean Sea with the
Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
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1871 - The
National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of
New York.
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1876 -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic
Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
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1903 - The
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the
Bolsheviks (
Russian for "majority") and
Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
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1919 - King
George V of the United Kingdom proclaimed
Armistice Day (later
Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by
Edward George Honey.
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1922 - Former
Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI went on exile in
Italy.
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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).
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1950 -
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th
Dalai Lama, was enthroned as
Tibet's
head of state at the age of fifteen.
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1962 - In
Washington, DC, US President
John F. Kennedy dedicates
Dulles International Airport.
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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."
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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.
* 1968 -
Alexandros Panagoulis condemned to death by the Greek Colonels' Junta.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1974 -
Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in
Portugal, as a front of
PCP(m-l).
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1983 - The
Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.
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1985 - The first edition of
Phrack is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence.
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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).
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1990 - Fugendake, part of the
Mount Unzen volcanic complex,
Nagasaki prefecture,
Japan became active again and erupted.
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1997 - In
Luxor,
Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6
Islamic militants outside the
Temple of Hatshepsut (police killed the assailants).
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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.
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2003 -
Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated
Governor of California.
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2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company
Sears Holdings Corporation.
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2005 -
Italy's choice of national anthem,
Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes officialised in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the
birth of the republic.
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9 -
Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d.
79)
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1503 -
Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d.
1572)
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1576 -
Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d.
1628)
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1587 -
Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d.
1679)
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1612 -
Dorgon, Manchu prince (d.
1650)
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1681 -
Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d.
1776)
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1685 -
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d.
1749)
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1717 -
Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d.
1783)
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1755 - King
Louis XVIII of France (d.
1824)
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1765 -
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d.
1840)
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1790 -
August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d.
1868)
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1793 - Sir
Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d.
1865)
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1799 -
Titian Peale, American artist (d.
1885)
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1816 -
August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d.
1876)
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1835 -
Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d.
1915)
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1857 -
Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d.
1932)
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1866 -
Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d.
1912)
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1868 -
Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d.
1918)
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1878 -
Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (d.
1939)
* 1878 -
Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d.
1968)
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1887 - Sir
Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d.
1976)
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1894 -
Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d.
1972)
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1895 -
Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d.
1975)
* 1895 -
Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d.
1966)
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1896 -
Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d.
1934)
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1897 -
Frank Fay American actor first husband of
Barbara Stanwyck (d.
1961)
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1899 -
Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d.
1971)
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1901 -
Walter Hallstein, German politician (d.
1982)
* 1901 -
Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d.
1982)
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1902 -
Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1995)
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1904 -
Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d.
1988)
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1905 -
Queen Astrid of Belgium (d.
1935)
* 1905 -
Mischa Auer, American actor (d.
1967)
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1906 -
Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d.
1992)
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1907 -
Israel Regardie, Occultist,
Aleister Crowley's secretary (d.
1985)
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1911 -
Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d.
1974)
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1916 -
Shelby Foote, American historian (d.
2005)
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1920 -
Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist and entertainer (d.
2005)
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1922 -
Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
1923 -
Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d.
2001)
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1925 -
Rock Hudson, American actor (d.
1985)
* 1925 - Sir
Charles Mackerras, American-born conductor
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1928 -
Rance Howard, American actor
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1929 -
Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d.
1999)
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1935 -
Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
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1936 -
Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d.
2005)
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1937 -
Peter Cook, British comedian, satirist, and writer (d.
1995)
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1938 -
Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
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1939 -
Auberon Waugh, British author (d.
2001)
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1942 -
Martin Scorsese, American film director
* 1942 -
Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
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1943 -
Lauren Hutton, American actress
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1944 -
Danny DeVito, American actor
* 1944 -
Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
* 1944 -
Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
* 1944 -
Tom Seaver, baseball player
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1945 -
Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
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1946 -
Terry E. Branstad, Former Governor of Iowa
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1948 -
Howard Dean, American politician
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1951 -
Stephen Root, American actor
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1952 -
Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
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1958 -
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
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1960 -
Jonathan Ross, British television presenter and radio broadcaster
* 1960 -
RuPaul, American actor
*
1965 -
Rob Kokarinen,
Finnish Opera and Rock Singer, most notorious for being the
lead singer of Plus Ultra (1984 - 1986).
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1966 -
Jeff Buckley, American musician (d.
1997)
* 1966 -
Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
* 1966 -
Sophie Marceau, French actress
* 1966 -
Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
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1968 -
Amber Michaels, German porn actress
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1969 -
Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
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1969 -
Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese
seiyu (voice actor)
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1970 -
Paul Allender, British singer (
Cradle of Filth)
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1973 -
Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
*1973 -
Bernd Schneider, German footballer
* 1973 -
Eli Marrero, baseball player
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1975 -
Diane Neal, American actress
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1976 -
Brandon Call, American actor
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1977 -
Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
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1978 -
Reggie Wayne, American football player
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1980 -
Isaac Hanson, guitarist and singer
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1981 -
Sarah Harding, English singer (
Girls Aloud)
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1982 -
Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
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1983 -
Christopher Paolini, author
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1994 -
Raquel Castro, American child actress
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375 -
Valentinian I,
Roman Emperor (b.
321)
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594 -
Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.
539)
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641 -
Emperor Jomei of Japan (b.
593)
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680 -
Hilda of Whitby (b.
614)
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1231 -
Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of
Andrew II of Hungary and saint (b.
1207)
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1326 -
Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b.
1285)
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1494 -
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b.
1463)
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1558 - Queen
Mary I of England (b.
1516)
* 1558 -
Reginald Cardinal Pole,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1500)
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1562 -
Antoine de Bourbon, father of
Henry IV of France (b.
1518)
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1592 - King
John III of Sweden (b.
1537)
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1600 -
Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b.
1542)
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1632 -
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b.
1594)
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1643 -
Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (b.
1602)
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1648 -
Thomas Ford, English composer
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1665 -
John Earle, English bishop
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1668 -
Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (b.
1634)
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1690 -
Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b.
1610)
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1708 -
Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b.
1631)
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1713 -
Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b.
1653)
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1747 -
Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b.
1668)
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1768 -
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, British statesman (b.
1693)
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1776 -
James Ferguson, British astronomer (b.
1710)
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1789 -
Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, only child of
Bonnie Prince Charlie (b.
1753)
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1794 -
Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b.
1738)
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1808 -
David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b.
1721)
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1858 -
Robert Owen, British
socialist, social reformer and father of the
cooperative movement (b.
1771)
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1902 -
Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer, First Superintendent of the
West London Mission (b.
1847)
*
1905 - Grand Duke
Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b.
1817)
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1917 -
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b.
1840)
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1929 -
Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b.
1860)
*
1936 -
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b.
1861)
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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)
* 1940 -
Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b.
1879)
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1958 -
Mort Cooper, baseball player (b.
1913)
*
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)
*
1987 -
Paul Derringer, baseball player (b.
1906)
*
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)
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2004 -
Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b.
1970)
*
2004 -
Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b.
1941)
*
2005 -
Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b.
1942)
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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*
Slovakia - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day commemorating the beginning of the
Velvet Revolution in 1989.
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BBC: On This Day*
The History Channel: This Day in HistoryNovember 16 -
November 18 -
October 17 -
December 17 --
listing of all days
