About November 17
November 17, 2021 is the 321st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 76 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 17
- 794 –Japanese Emperor Kammu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto.
- 1183 –The Battle of Mizushima.
- 1292 –John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
- 1796 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole – French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
- 1820 –Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
- 1831 –Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.
- 1839 –Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
- 1858 –Modified Julian Day zero.
- 1869 –In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
- 1871 –The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- 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.
- 1968 –Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
- 1968 –Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
- 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.
- 1973 –Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook”.
- 1990 –Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
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