About November 17
November 17, 2025 is the 321st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 92 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 17
- 1292 –John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
- 1511 –Spain and England ally against France.
- 1558 –Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
- 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.
- 1856 –American Old West: 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.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins – Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
- 1869 –In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
- 1878 –First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
- 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 –The first executions during the Irish Civil War take place when five Irish Republican Army members are sent to the firing squad by the Irish Free State.
- 1947 –American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century.
- 1962 –President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
- 1968 –Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
- 1968 –British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
- 1969 –Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
- 1973 –Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook”.
- 1979 –Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
- 2000 –Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
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