About November 17
November 17, 2024 is the 322nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 73 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 17
- 473 –The future Leo II is named associate emperor by Leo I.
- 794 –Japanese Emperor Kammu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto.
- 1603 –English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
- 1796 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole – French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
- 1800 –The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
- 1811 –José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
- 1858 –Modified Julian Day zero.
- 1876 –Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.
- 1911 –Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an HBCU, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington,DC.
- 1922 –Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
- 1947 –The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- 1953 –The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
- 1962 –President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
- 1970 –Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
- 1982 –Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
- 1990 –Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
- 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.
- 2000 –Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
- 2009 –Administrators at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia discover their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen, which would serve as the basis of the “Climategate” controversy.
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