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 Black and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1989 - The "Velvet Revolution" began, which led to the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia.
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; he was 87.
2003 - Actor 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.
2021 - The House voted to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona for posting an animated video that depicted him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.
2021 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a request by Steven Avery to review his conviction for a 2005 killing; the case was the focus of a popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer.”
Birthdays
28 - Raquel Castro (actres)
34 - Reid Perry (musician)
39 - Ryan Braun (baseball player)
44 - Rachel McAdams (actress)
45 - Aaron Lines (singer)
46 - Brandon Call (actor)
49 - Leslie Bibb (actress)
50 - Leonard Roberts (actor)
51 - David Ramsey (actor)
55 - Ronnie DeVoe (singer)
56 - Daisy Fuentes (actress/model)
56 - Sophie Marceau (actress)
59 - Dylan Walsh (actor)
62 - RuPaul (entertainer)
63 - William Moses (actor)
64 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (actress)
71 - Stephen Root (actor)
78 - Lorne Michaels (producer)
78 - Danny DeVito (actor)
79 - Lauren Hutton (actress)
80 - Martin Scorsese (director)
84 - Gordon Lightfoot (singer)
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Today in Sports History - November 17
1894 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-6.
1898 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 23-10.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-0.
1906 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 8-6.
1917 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 13-3.
1923 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 26-14.
1926 - The Chicago Black Hawks played their first game in the NHL.
1928 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh play to a 0-0 tie.
1934 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 3-0.
1940 - The Green Bay Packers became the first NFL team to travel by plane.
1945 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 53-0.
1951 - Colorado defeats Nebraska 36-14.
1953 - The St. Louis Browns baseball franchise officially becomes the Baltimore Orioles.
1956 - Baylor defeats Nebraska 26-7.
1956 - Syracuse running back Jim Brown scores an NCAA record 43 points in a game against Colgate.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 14-0.
1968 - The "Heidi Bowl" incident took place as NBC switched its television coverage from football to the movie "Heidi"; after the cutaway, the Oakland Raiders scored two touchdowns in the final 42 seconds to come from behind to defeat the New York Jets 43-32.
1973 - #10 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 50-21.
1979 - #3 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 34-3.
1982 - The NFL reduced its 16-game season to nine as a result of a 57-day players' strike.
1984 - #4 Oklahoma defeats #1 Nebraska 17-7.
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.
2012 - #16 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 38-14.
2018 - Nebraska defeats Michigan State 9-6.
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 Black and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1989 - The "Velvet Revolution" began, which led to the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia.
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; he was 87.
2003 - Actor 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.
2021 - The House voted to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona for posting an animated video that depicted him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.
2021 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a request by Steven Avery to review his conviction for a 2005 killing; the case was the focus of a popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer.”
Birthdays
28 - Raquel Castro (actres)
34 - Reid Perry (musician)
39 - Ryan Braun (baseball player)
44 - Rachel McAdams (actress)
45 - Aaron Lines (singer)
46 - Brandon Call (actor)
49 - Leslie Bibb (actress)
50 - Leonard Roberts (actor)
51 - David Ramsey (actor)
55 - Ronnie DeVoe (singer)
56 - Daisy Fuentes (actress/model)
56 - Sophie Marceau (actress)
59 - Dylan Walsh (actor)
62 - RuPaul (entertainer)
63 - William Moses (actor)
64 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (actress)
71 - Stephen Root (actor)
78 - Lorne Michaels (producer)
78 - Danny DeVito (actor)
79 - Lauren Hutton (actress)
80 - Martin Scorsese (director)
84 - Gordon Lightfoot (singer)
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Today in Sports History - November 17
1894 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-6.
1898 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 23-10.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-0.
1906 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 8-6.
1917 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 13-3.
1923 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 26-14.
1926 - The Chicago Black Hawks played their first game in the NHL.
1928 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh play to a 0-0 tie.
1934 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 3-0.
1940 - The Green Bay Packers became the first NFL team to travel by plane.
1945 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 53-0.
1951 - Colorado defeats Nebraska 36-14.
1953 - The St. Louis Browns baseball franchise officially becomes the Baltimore Orioles.
1956 - Baylor defeats Nebraska 26-7.
1956 - Syracuse running back Jim Brown scores an NCAA record 43 points in a game against Colgate.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 14-0.
1968 - The "Heidi Bowl" incident took place as NBC switched its television coverage from football to the movie "Heidi"; after the cutaway, the Oakland Raiders scored two touchdowns in the final 42 seconds to come from behind to defeat the New York Jets 43-32.
1973 - #10 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 50-21.
1979 - #3 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 34-3.
1982 - The NFL reduced its 16-game season to nine as a result of a 57-day players' strike.
1984 - #4 Oklahoma defeats #1 Nebraska 17-7.
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.
2012 - #16 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 38-14.
2018 - Nebraska defeats Michigan State 9-6.