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
- 1603 –English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
- 1659 –The Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
- 1811 –José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
- 1820 –Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
- 1839 –Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
- 1855 –David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- 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.
- 1858 –Modified Julian Day zero.
- 1871 –The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- 1878 –First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
- 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.
- 1957 –Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
- 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.
- 1973 –The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1989 –Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
- 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.
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