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Historical Events

17 Nov 1913
The first ship sails through the Panama Canal which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
17 Nov 1918
Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland CPH
17 Nov 1926
NHLs Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game beat Tor St Pats 4-1
17 Nov 1928
Notre Dame finally loses a football game at home after 23 years
17 Nov 1929
Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
17 Nov 1930
Musical Sweet & Low with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC
17 Nov 1933
United States recognizes Soviet Union opens trade
17 Nov 1933
Marx brothers film Duck Soup directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers is released in the US
17 Nov 1936
Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio
17 Nov 1937
Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany beginning of appeasement
17 Nov 1938
Italy passes its own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
17 Nov 1939
Jerome KernHammerstein IIs Very Warm for May premieres in NYC
17 Nov 1939
The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
17 Nov 1940
Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
17 Nov 1945
Girl from Nantucket closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 12 performances
17 Nov 1945
New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
17 Nov 1183
Battle of Mizushima Japanese Taira clan defeat the Minamoto
17 Nov 1278
680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
17 Nov 1511
England Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign anti-French covenant The Treaty of Westminster
17 Nov 1555
William of Orange becomes member of Council of State
17 Nov 1636
Henrique Dias Brazilian general wins a decisive battle against the Dutch in Brazil
17 Nov 1659
Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain
17 Nov 1734
John Zenger arrested for libel against NY colonial governor later acquitted
17 Nov 1774
First City Troop Philadelphia City Cavarly formed at Carpenters Hall Philadelphia - oldest US military unit still in service
17 Nov 1800
Congress holds its 1st session in Washington D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building
17 Nov 1812
Napoleonic Wars Battle of Krasnoi during Napoleons retreat from Moscow
17 Nov 1827
The Delta Phi fraternity Americas oldest continuous social fraternity founded at Union College in Schenectady New York
17 Nov 1831
Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia
17 Nov 1842
Fugitive slave George Latimer captured in Boston
17 Nov 1842
Opera Linda di Chamounix is produced (London)
17 Nov 1853
Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
17 Nov 1856
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.
17 Nov 1862
Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns
17 Nov 1869
Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race racing 13K Paris to Rouen
17 Nov 1869
Suez Canal in Egypt opens linking Mediterranean and Red seas
17 Nov 1874
Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire & sinks off Auckland NZ
17 Nov 1875
Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott
17 Nov 1877
Gilbert and Sullivans operette Sorcerer premieres in London
17 Nov 1877
Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars Armenia
17 Nov 1878
First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy
17 Nov 1883
British Open Golf Musselburgh Links Willie Fernie beats defending champion Bob Ferguson 1-up in 36-hole playoff
17 Nov 1884
Cops arrest boxer John L Sullivan in his 2nd round for being cruel
17 Nov 1885
The Serbian Army with Russian support invades Bulgaria
17 Nov 1888
Tchaikovskys 5th Symphony premieres in St Petersburg
17 Nov 1889
Union Pacific begins daily through service Chicago-Portland & San Francisco
17 Nov 1903
Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
17 Nov 1903
In the Treaty of Petropolis Bolivia cedes the territory of Arce to Brazil Bolivia gains rail and water outlets in the east
17 Nov 1904
George Cohans musical Little Johnny Jones premieres in NYC
17 Nov 1905
The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
17 Nov 1913
1st US dental hygienists course forms Bridgeport Connecticut
17 Nov 1947
The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
17 Nov 1948
Britains House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
17 Nov 1951
Britain reports development of the worlds first nuclear-powered heating system
17 Nov 1953
St Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
17 Nov 1953
The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands Kerry Ireland are evacuated to the mainland
17 Nov 1953
United States joins the United Nations in condemning Israels raid on Jordan on October 4
17 Nov 1957
WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg WV (NBCABC) begins broadcasting
17 Nov 1958
KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
17 Nov 1959
De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond
17 Nov 1959
Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year
17 Nov 1959
William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof
17 Nov 1960
New MLB Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
17 Nov 1962
Nowhere to Go But Up closes at Winter Garden NYC after 9 performances
17 Nov 1962
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh Semipalitinsk USSR
17 Nov 1964
British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
17 Nov 1965
General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of Peoples Republic of China
17 Nov 1965
William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
17 Nov 1965
The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the la Drang Valley almost wiping them out
17 Nov 1966
Leonids meteor shower peaks (150000 per hour)
17 Nov 1967
French author Rgis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
17 Nov 1967
Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon
17 Nov 1967
Davey Jones of the Monkees opens a boutique Zilch I in Greenwich Village New York
17 Nov 1968
John Kander and Fred Ebbs musical Zorba opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 305 performances
17 Nov 1968
KHNE TV channel 29 in Hastings NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
17 Nov 1968
Heidi Game NBC cuts to show Heidi and misses Raiders rally to beat Jets 43-32
17 Nov 1968
Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
17 Nov 1970
British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on page 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
17 Nov 1970
Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
17 Nov 1973
Greek regime attacks students with tanks 100s killed
17 Nov 1973
Teri Garr plays role of a stripper on The Nurse
17 Nov 1974
Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms
17 Nov 1974
Aliana Operrio-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of PCP(m-l).
17 Nov 1977
Bernard Pomerances Elephant Man premieres in London
17 Nov 1977
Miss World Contest - Miss UK wears 9500 platinum bikini
17 Nov 1979
Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball on a flight to Austin TX
17 Nov 1979
NY Stars (WBL) home opener at Madison Square Garden in NYC
17 Nov 1980
WHHM Television in Washington D.C. becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station
17 Nov 1981
1st opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 37 performances
17 Nov 1981
NBA NY Knick Bill Cartwright ties record of 19 of 19 free throws
17 Nov 1983
La Tragedie de Carmen opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 187 performances
17 Nov 1983
Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship
17 Nov 1983
Philadelphia Flyers win 13th straight NHL game
17 Nov 1984
Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to NJ Nets 124-110
17 Nov 1985
Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM New York N.Y.
17 Nov 1985
NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
17 Nov 1985
NBCs premiere of controversial TV thriller Hostage Flight
17 Nov 1986
Oh Coward opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 56 performances
17 Nov 1987
George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
17 Nov 1988
Linda Petursdottir of Iceland 18 crowned 38th Miss World
17 Nov 1989
Bret Saberhagen signs record 2966667 per year KC Royal contract
17 Nov 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
17 Nov 1990
David Crosby breaks his left leg ankle and shoulder in a motorcycle accident in Los Angles CA
17 Nov 1991
Brigadoon closes at New York State Theater NYC after 12 performances
17 Nov 1991
Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs LA Rams
17 Nov 1991
In an all-American final Pete Sampras wins his first of 5 ATP Tour World Championship tennis titles with a 36 76 63 64 victory over Jim Courier in Frankfurt Germany
17 Nov 1992
Gypsy Passion opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 55 performances
17 Nov 1992
Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft
17 Nov 1992
Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks blowing up on impact later revealed NBC rigged test
17 Nov 1992
Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole
17 Nov 1992
The Bodyguard movie soundtrack is released by Arista Records (Billboard Album of the Year 1993)
17 Nov 1993
Grand Night For Singing opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 performances
17 Nov 1993
Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain 17 killed
17 Nov 1993
General Sani Abacha leads a coup against Ernest Shonekans transitional administration and returns the Nigerian government to military control
17 Nov 1994
Sunset Boulevard opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 977 performances
17 Nov 1996
Present Laughter opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
17 Nov 1996
Time White and T. Assebework discover the first fossils of 2.5 million year old Australopithecus garhi an ancestor on the human family tree in Bouri Middle Awash Ethiopia
17 Nov 1997
In Luxor Egypt 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
17 Nov 1998
Tori Amos release a compilation of her videos Tori Amos The Complete Collection 1992-
17 Nov 2000
A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom Slovenia kills 7 and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
17 Nov 2002
Australian Leyton Hewitt scores back-to-back season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a classic 75 75 26 26 64 victory over Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero in Shanghai China
17 Nov 2004
Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears Roebuck and Co. for 11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
17 Nov 2005
Italys choice of national anthem Il Canto degli Italiani becomes official in law for the first time almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
17 Nov 2006
Official naming of element 111 Roentgenium (Rg).
17 Nov 2008
Japan the worlds second-biggest economy slides into its first recession in seven years
17 Nov 2012
50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in Manfalut Egypt
17 Nov 2013
102nd Davis Cup Czech Republic beats Serbia in Belgrade (3-2)
17 Nov 2013
50 people are killed after a Boeing 737 aircraft crashes in Kazan Russia
17 Nov 2013
Abdulla Yameen becomes the President of the Maldives
17 Nov 2013
Giorgi Margvelashvilibecomes the President of Georgia
17 Nov 2013
Jimmie Johnson wins the NASCAR Sprint Cup for the sixth time
17 Nov 2014
The Church of England adopts legislation enabling the appointment of female bishops
17 Nov 2015
Irelands 1st same-sex wedding takes place - Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling marry in Clonmel County Tipperary
17 Nov 2015
Suicide bomber kills more than 30 in a market in Yola north-eastern Nigeria with Boko Haram blamed
17 Nov 2016
Smaller pyramid find within 2 known Kukulkan nesting pyramids announced at Chichen Itza in Yucatan Mexico dating to 550-80 AD
17 Nov 1883
British Open Mens Golf Musselburgh Links Willie Fernie beats defending champion Bob Ferguson 1-up in 36-hole playoff
17 Nov 1974
Bonnie Bryant becomes the only left-handed player in history to win an LPGA Tour event scores a 3-stroke victory in the Bill Branch Golf Classic in Fort Myers Florida
17 Nov 1774
First City Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry formed at Carpenters Hall Philadelphia - oldest US military unit still in service
17 Nov 1800
Congress holds its 1st session in Washington D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building
17 Nov 1959
SF Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year
17 Nov 1984
Golden State Warrior Purvis Short scores career high 59 points though team loses to NJ Nets 124-110
17 Nov 1990
David Crosby breaks his left leg ankle and shoulder in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles CA
17 Nov 1491
Anne of Brittany becomes engaged to King Charles VIII of France
17 Nov 1558
The independence of the Church of England is re-established upon ascension of Elizabeth I to the throne
17 Nov 1636
Brazilian general Henrique Dias wins a decisive battle against the Dutch in Brazil
17 Nov 1734
Printer John Zenger arrested for libel against NY colonial governor William Cosby later acquitted
17 Nov 1774
First City Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry formed at Carpenters Hall Philadelphia one of the oldest US military units still in service
17 Nov 1798
Beginning of a 5 day New England Blizzard that covers thousands of houses and kills hundreds
17 Nov 1842
Opera Linda di Chamounix by Gaetano Donizetti is produced in London
17 Nov 1862
Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns
17 Nov 1866
Opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas.] is produced in Paris
17 Nov 1874
Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire & sinks off Auckland New Zealand
17 Nov 1875
American Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Colonel Olcott
17 Nov 1878
First assassination attempt against King Umberto I of Italy
17 Nov 1913
The first ship sails through the Panama Canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
17 Nov 1957
WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg West Virginia (NBCABC) begins broadcasting
17 Nov 1973
Teri Garr plays new nurse Lt Suzanne Marquetten on The Sniper episode of TV series MASH
17 Nov 1800
U.S. Congress meets for the first time in the newly built Capitol in Washington D.C. which had been established by The Residence Act of July 16 1790
17 Nov 1866
Opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas premieres at the Opra-Comique in Paris Francce
17 Nov 1888
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the premiere of his 5th Symphony at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg Russia
17 Nov 1939
The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection created
17 Nov 1936
Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy become an overnight success on radio
17 Nov 1945
Jacques Belasco and Kay Twomeys musical The Girl from Nantucket closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 12 performances
17 Nov 1990
American singer David Crosby breaks his left leg ankle and shoulder in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles California
17 Nov 1991
Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewes musical Brigadoon closes at New York State Theater NYC after 12 performances
17 Nov 1278
680 Jews are arrested in England for counterfeiting coins and 293 are hanged
17 Nov 1800
Congress meets for the first time in the newly built but still incomplete Capitol Building in Washington D.C. established by the Residence Act of 1790
17 Nov 1831
Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Gran Colombia
17 Nov 1869
Suez Canal in Egypt opens linking the Mediterranean and Red seas
17 Nov 1882
British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at and destroys village of Torofani on the Forcado River in Niger in retaliation for attack on British owned factory that left 5 Brits missing
17 Nov 1931
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opens Whitney Museum of American Art on West Eighth Street. NY after the Met Museum refuses to accept her collection [1]
17 Nov 1933
Marx Brothers film Duck Soup directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers is released in the US
17 Nov 1974
Swedish pop group ABBA begins their first international tour at the Kalkonerteater in Copenhagen Denmark
17 Nov 2018
Ireland beats Rugby World Cup champions New Zealand 16-9 at Aviva Stadium Dublin first victory over the All Blacks ever on home soil flyhalf Johnny Sexton kicks 3 penalties and a conversion
17 Nov 2018
Missing Argentine naval submarine ARA San Juan with 44 on board found on sea floor a year after it disappeared off coast of Argentina
17 Nov 2018
Protests across France against rising fuel prices leave 400 injured
17 Nov 2021
British Columbia declares a state of emergency after an atmospheric river storm causes widespread rain and flooding [1]
17 Nov 2021
Delhi authorities order schools shut till further notice and construction halted as Supreme Court calls for a pollution lockdown as city battles winter smog
17 Nov 2021
Garbie Muguruza becomes first Spanish player to win WTA Finals defeating Estonian Anett Kontaveit 63 75 in Zapopan Mexico
17 Nov 2021
Record number of Americans over 100000 died of drug overdoses April 2020 - April according to the CDC [1]
17 Nov 2021
US capitol rioter QAnon Shaman [Jacob Chansley] sentenced to three years in prison by a federal court [1]
17 Nov 2021
US National Book Award given to Jason Mott (fiction) Tiya Miles (nonfiction) and Martn Espada (poetry)
17 Nov 1869
Englishman James Moore wins the first bicycle race racing 13 km from Paris to Rouen France
17 Nov 1940
Green Bay Packers become the first NFL team to travel by plane
17 Nov 1945
H. J. Wilson of the RAF sets a new world airspeed record of 606 mph (975 kmh)
17 Nov 1947
The Screen Actors Guild in the US implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath
17 Nov 1959
De Beers of South Africa announces the invention of a new synthetic diamond process
17 Nov 1966
Leonids meteor shower peaks at over 150000 per hour for 20 minutes a storm so intense that some people think it is the end of the world
17 Nov 1974
Bonnie Bryant becomes the first left-handed player in history to win an LPGA Tour event scores a 3-stroke victory in the Bill Branch Golf Classic in Fort Myers Florida
17 Nov 1996
Paleoanthropologists Tim White and Berhane Asfaw discover the 2.5-million-year-old fossils of Australopithecus garhi representing a new species of early hominid in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia
17 Nov 2015
Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling marry in Clonmel County Tipperary in Irelands first same-sex wedding
17 Nov 2023
Earths hottest day global average surface temperature more than 2C (2.06C) above pre-industrial levels for the first time according to EUs Copernicus Climate Change Service [1]
17 Nov 2023
High profile AI boss Sam Altman sacked from the company he co-founded - OpenAI the company behind the ChatGPT bot after the company board lost confidence in him [1]
17 Nov 2023
Zimbabwe declares a state of emergency in its capital Harare over a cholera outbreak with 7398 suspected cases 50 confirmed deaths and 109 people in hospital [1]