November 17
1558 - Queen Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary.
1800 - Congress convened in Washington, D.C. for the first time.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman, in an address to a special session of Congress, called for emergency aid to Austria, Italy and France. (The aid was approved the following month.)
1969 - The first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union opened in Helsinki, Finland.
1973 - President Richard Nixon told Associated Press managing editors in Orlando, Florida: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
1979 - Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 of the 66 American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1989 - The "Velvet Revolution" had its beginnings, which lead to the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia.
1989 - The Walt Disney animated feature “The Little Mermaid” opened in wide release.
1997 - Sixty-two people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed when militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt; the attackers were killed by police.
2002 - Abba Eban, the statesman who helped persuade the world to approve creation of Israel and dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades, died near Tel Aviv at age 87.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.
2018 - Argentina’s navy announced that searchers had found a submarine that disappeared a year earlier with 44 crewmen aboard; the government said it would be unable to recover the vessel.
2020 - President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top election security official, Christopher Krebs, who had refuted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote.
2022 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, a pivotal realignment making way for a new generation of leaders after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections.
Birthdays
29 - Raquel Castro (actress)
35 - Reid Perry (musician)
40 - Ryan Braun (baseball player)
45 - Rachel McAdams (actress)
46 - Aaron Lines (singer)
47 - Brandon Call (actor)
50 - Leslie Bibb (actress)
51 - Leonard Roberts (actor)
52 - David Ramsey (actor)
56 - Ronnie DeVoe (singer)
57 - Daisy Fuentes (actress/model)
57 - Sophie Marceau (actress)
60 - Dylan Walsh (actor)
63 - RuPaul (entertainer)
64 - William Moses (actor)
65 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (actress)
67 - Ramona Singer (reality star)
72 - Stephen Root (actor)
79 - Lorne Michaels (TV producer)
79 - Danny DeVito (actor/director)
80 - Lauren Hutton (actress)
81 - Martin Scorsese (director)
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Today in Sports History - November 17
1926 - The Chicago Black Hawks played their first game in the NHL.
1940 - The Green Bay Packers became the first NFL team to travel by plane.
1953 - The St. Louis Browns baseball franchise officially become the Baltimore Orioles.
1956 - Syracuse running back Jim Brown records an NCAA single-game record 43 points in a game against Colgate.
1968 - The "Heidi Bowl" incident took place as NBC switched from its coverage of the NFL with 42 seconds to play to air the movie "Heidi". In the missing 42 seconds, the Oakland Raiders scored two touchdowns to come from behind and defeat thew New York Jets 43-32.
1982 - The NFL reduced its 16-game season to nine as a result of a 57-day players' strike.
1991 - Mike Utley (Detroit Lions) suffered a spinal injury in a game against Los Angeles that left him paralyzed from the chest down.
1997 - Mario Lemieux was voted into the NHL Hall of Fame.
2003 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the first major league baseball player to receive six National League MVP awards.
1558 - Queen Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary.
1800 - Congress convened in Washington, D.C. for the first time.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman, in an address to a special session of Congress, called for emergency aid to Austria, Italy and France. (The aid was approved the following month.)
1969 - The first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union opened in Helsinki, Finland.
1973 - President Richard Nixon told Associated Press managing editors in Orlando, Florida: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
1979 - Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 of the 66 American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1989 - The "Velvet Revolution" had its beginnings, which lead to the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia.
1989 - The Walt Disney animated feature “The Little Mermaid” opened in wide release.
1997 - Sixty-two people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed when militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt; the attackers were killed by police.
2002 - Abba Eban, the statesman who helped persuade the world to approve creation of Israel and dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades, died near Tel Aviv at age 87.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.
2018 - Argentina’s navy announced that searchers had found a submarine that disappeared a year earlier with 44 crewmen aboard; the government said it would be unable to recover the vessel.
2020 - President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top election security official, Christopher Krebs, who had refuted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote.
2022 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, a pivotal realignment making way for a new generation of leaders after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections.
Birthdays
29 - Raquel Castro (actress)
35 - Reid Perry (musician)
40 - Ryan Braun (baseball player)
45 - Rachel McAdams (actress)
46 - Aaron Lines (singer)
47 - Brandon Call (actor)
50 - Leslie Bibb (actress)
51 - Leonard Roberts (actor)
52 - David Ramsey (actor)
56 - Ronnie DeVoe (singer)
57 - Daisy Fuentes (actress/model)
57 - Sophie Marceau (actress)
60 - Dylan Walsh (actor)
63 - RuPaul (entertainer)
64 - William Moses (actor)
65 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (actress)
67 - Ramona Singer (reality star)
72 - Stephen Root (actor)
79 - Lorne Michaels (TV producer)
79 - Danny DeVito (actor/director)
80 - Lauren Hutton (actress)
81 - Martin Scorsese (director)
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Today in Sports History - November 17
1926 - The Chicago Black Hawks played their first game in the NHL.
1940 - The Green Bay Packers became the first NFL team to travel by plane.
1953 - The St. Louis Browns baseball franchise officially become the Baltimore Orioles.
1956 - Syracuse running back Jim Brown records an NCAA single-game record 43 points in a game against Colgate.
1968 - The "Heidi Bowl" incident took place as NBC switched from its coverage of the NFL with 42 seconds to play to air the movie "Heidi". In the missing 42 seconds, the Oakland Raiders scored two touchdowns to come from behind and defeat thew New York Jets 43-32.
1982 - The NFL reduced its 16-game season to nine as a result of a 57-day players' strike.
1991 - Mike Utley (Detroit Lions) suffered a spinal injury in a game against Los Angeles that left him paralyzed from the chest down.
1997 - Mario Lemieux was voted into the NHL Hall of Fame.
2003 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the first major league baseball player to receive six National League MVP awards.
