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Nov 17: Today In History by VIKiEzEkieL(m): 9:28am On Nov 17, 2015 |
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred
on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas
of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts,
entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in
history.
Today in History
November 17
375 Enraged by the insolence of barbarian envoys,
Valentinian, the Emperor of the West, dies of
apoplexy in Pannonia in Central Europe.
1558 Queen Elizabeth ascends to the throne of England.
1558 The Church of England is re-established.
1636 Henrique Dias, Brazilian general, wins a decisive
battle against the Dutch in Brazil.
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte defeats an Italian army near
the Alpone River, Italy.
1800 The Sixth Congress (2nd session) convenes for the
first time in Washington, D.C.
1842 A grim abolitionist meeting is held in Marlboro
Chapel, Boston, after the imprisonment of a
mulatto named George Latimer, one of the first
fugitive slaves to be apprehended in Massachusetts.
1862 Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north
out of Washington, D.C., to begin the
Fredericksburg campaign.
1869 The Suez Canal is formally opened.
1877 Russia launches a surprise night attack that
overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia.
1885 The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades
Bulgaria.
1903 Vladimir Lenin’s efforts to impose his own radical
views on the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
splits the party into two factions, the Bolsheviks,
who support Lenin, and the Mensheviks.
1913 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal,
which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
1918 Influenza deaths reported in the United States have
far exceeded World War I casualties.
1918 German troops evacuate Brussels.
1931 Charles Lindbergh inaugurates Pan Am service
from Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying
boat American Clipper.
1941 German Luftwaffe general and World War I fighter-
ace Ernst Udet commits suicide. The Nazi
government tells the public that he died in a flying
accident.
1951 Britain reports development of the world’s first
nuclear-powered heating system.
1965 The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th
Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the Ia Drang
Valley, almost wiping them out.
1967 The American Surveyor 6 makes a six-second flight
on the moon, the first liftoff on the lunar surface.
1970 Soviet unmanned Luna 17 touches down on the
moon.
1980 WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the
first African-American public-broadcasting
television station.
1986 Renault President Georges Besse is shot to death by
leftists of the Direct Action Group in Paris.
1989 Student demonstration in Prague put down by riot
police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet
Revolution) that will topple the communist
government on Dec. 29.
1993 US House of Representatives passes resolution to
establish the North American Free Trade
Agreement.
1993 Gen. Sani Abacha leads a military coup in Nigeria
that overthrows the government of Ernest
Shonekan.
2000 Controversial President of Peru Alberto Fujimori
removed from office.
Born on November 17
1755 Louis XVIII, King of France.
1887 Bernard Law Montgomery, British field marshal
who defeated Rommel in North Africa and led
Allied troops from D-Day to the end of World War
II.
1902 Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian-born physicist.
1916 Shelby Foote, American writer, famous for his
three-volume narrative on America’s Civil War.
1925 Rock Hudson, actor (McMillan & Wife TV series;
Giant).
1938 Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer, songwriter,
musician ("Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," "In
the Early Morning Rain".
1942 Martin Scorsese, film director (Taxi Driver, Raging
Bull).
1944 Gene Clark, singer, songwriter; member of the
bands The Byrds, The New Christy Minstrels, and
Dillard & Clark.
1944 Danny DeVito, actor, director, producer (Taxi TV
series; Throw Momma from the Train, Pulp
Fiction).
1944 Lorne Michaels, israeli-American TV producer;
created Saturday Night Live.
1949 Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime |
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