November 17
November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years), with 44 remaining.
Events:
- The Leonids are visible each year around this day.
- 1796 - Battle of Arcole - French defeat Austrians
- 1800 - United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, DC
- 1869 - Suez Canal opens
- 1941 - Joseph Grew, United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan is on the verge of launching an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- 1969 - SALT I negotiations begin
- 1970 - Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre
- 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon tells press "I am not a crook."
- 1983 - Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.
- 1985 - Phrack magazine started.
- 1989 - Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
Births:
- 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (+ 79)
- 1717 - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician
- 1755 - King Louis XVIII of France (+ 1824)
- 1790 - August Ferdinand Moebius, mathematician (+ 1868)
- 1799 - Titian Peale, artist
- 1878 - Grace Abbott, social worker, activist (+ 1939)
- 1887 - Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British commander in World War II (+ 1976)
- 1888 - Kurt Goetz, author (+ 1960)
- 1901 - Lee Strasberg, director, acting teacher (+ 1982)
- 1901 - Walter Hallstein, politician (+ 1982)
- 1904 - Isamu Noguchi, sculptor
- 1906 - Soichiro Honda, automobile pioneer (+ 1992)
- 1911 - Christian Fouchet, diplomat (+ 1974)
- 1916 - Shelby Foote, historian
- 1925 - Rock Hudson, actor (+ 1985)
- 1937 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer (+ 1995)
- 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, singer
- 1942 - Martin Scorsese, film director
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton, actress
- 1944 - Danny DeVito, actor
- 1944 - Lorne Michaels, producer
- 1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
- 1949 - Jon Avnet, producer, director
- 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress
- 1960 - RuPaul, actor
- 1966 - Sophie Marceau, actress
- 1973 - Alexei Urmanov, figure skating champion
Deaths:
- 1558 - Queen Mary I of England
- 1796 - Catherine the Great of Russia
- 1917 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor
- 1920 - Franz Brentano, philosopher
- 1929 - Herman Hollerith, statistician
- 1936 - Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer
- 1940 - Eric Gill, sculptor, typographer and writer
- 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician
Holidays and Observances:
See Also:
November 16 - November 18 - October 17 - December 17 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
November 17 is also the name of a terrorist group.