About November 17
November 17, 2023 is the 321st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 85 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 17
- 1292 –John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
- 1659 –The Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
- 1800 –The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
- 1810 –Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 1903 –The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for “majority”) and Mensheviks (Russian for “minority”).
- 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 –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.
- 1953 –The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
- 1968 –Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
- 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”.
- 1979 –Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
- 1983 –The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
- 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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