November 17......

November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 3 (BC) - According to early Christian theologian Clement of Alexandria (ca.155_ca.220 AD), Jesus Christ was born on this date.

● 1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.

● 1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.

● 1558 - England - Bags of cats are burned at the coronation ceremony for Elizabeth I. PETA protests outside.

● 1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.

● 1624 - Mystic philosopher Jacob Boehme dies.

● 1637 - Anne Hutchinson, antinomian, brought to trial. Banished from Massachusetts.

● 1734 - John Peter Zenger arrested for libels against colonial government.

● 1758 - English churchman Philip Embury, 30, married Margaret Switzer. Afterward immigrating to America, Embury was later encouraged by his cousin Barbara Heck to found a Methodist society in New York City in 1768. Embury thus became the first Methodist preacher in North America.

● 1775 - Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Rational assent may be the act of our natural reason; faith is the effect of immediate almighty power.'

● 1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.

● 1785 - Through strong drink, two Creek subchiefs are induced to sign treaty ceding large portion of Alabama and Georgia to whites; treaty is repudiated by Creek Nation, to no effect.

● 1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.

● 1800 - The partially completed United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.

● 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoe.

● 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).

● 1839 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens 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.

● 1858 - Modified Julian Day zero.

● 1858 - Socialist planner Robert Owen dies.

● 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.

● 1866 - Birth of anarcha-feminist Voltarine de Cleyre. Teacher of newly arrived immigrants in Philadelphia, atheist and free-thinker.

● 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.

● 1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.

● 1875 - American Theosophical Society founded.

● 1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.

● 1876 - English born Rodney ("Gipsy") Smith, 16, was converted to a living faith. Smith later became an English Wesleyan singing evangelist whose preaching emphasized the love of God.

● 1878 - Italy - King Humbert I stabbed and wounded by the anarchist Giovanni Passanante. Condemned to death, Passanante's sentence was commuted, and he died in prison in 1910.

● 1881 - Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, forerunner of AFL, organized.

● 1896 - Sacramento, California reports first of dozens of sightings of huge mysterious airships appearing all over U.S. for the next six months.

● 1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

● 1906 - In Toronto, Ellen Hebden experienced a Pentecostal baptism, followed soon after by her husband James. Their East End Mission afterward became a source and focal point for establishing Pentecostal holiness throughout Canada.

● 1909 - U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua.

● 1914 - England - Union of Democratic Control founded. It's been controlled ever since.

● 1915 - The Scottish "Great Rent Strike" culminates in a huge demonstration in Glasgow.

● 1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaimed Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.

● 1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI went on exile in Italy.

● 1934 - Lyndon B. Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as ''Lady Bird.''

● 1941 - World War II: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan has plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable is ignored).

● 1942 - Hobo organizer and cultural drop-out Ben Reitman dies.

● 1947 - Victor Serge dies. Novelist, poet, historian, and political activist. Lived in Paris in 1909, associated with individualist anarchists, particularly his childhood friend Raymond Callemin. Collaborated on the newspaper "L'anarchie." In Barcelona, involved in the newspaper of the CNT, "Tierra y Libertad." Went to Russia in 1918, a supporter of the communists. Critical of the direction of the party, he was imprisoned, but release in 1935 through the appeals of French intellectuals.

● 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.

● 1953 - Twenty die in Channel collision; Twenty Italian sailors die following a collision between two boats in the English Channel.

● 1953 - Nine paratroopers killed during a training exercise at Fort Bragg, North Carolina when an Air Force C-119 Flying Boxcar plows into them as they float earthward. The plane then crashes, killing six more servicemen.

● 1958 - Alan Freed's trial for allegedly inciting a riot after a Boston rock and roll show on May 3, 1958, set to start on this day, is put back until January 5, 1959, due to investigations into a related charge of violating Massachusetts anti-anarchy laws.

● 1960 - Anti-integration demonstrators riot in New Orleans.

● 1962 - In Washington, DC, US President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport.

● 1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."

● 1968 - NBC preempts the final 1:05 minutes of a very close NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders with “Heidi,” prompting an outrage amongst sport fans. Viewers were deprived of seeing the Raiders come from behind to beat the Jets 43-32. Subsequent contracts between networks and the NFL would not allow a repeat of the same kind.

● 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis condemned to death by the Greek Colonels' Junta.

● 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 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70.

● 1970 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

● 1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

● 1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

● 1970 - Trial of Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins begins.

● 1973 - Watergate scandal: United States President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., at Disney World(!), that “people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.'' Lying through his teeth once again.

● 1973 - Student uprising against the military regime in Athens, Greece.

● 1973 - Free Religionist Alan Watts dies, Mill Valley, California.

● 1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).

● 1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS.

● 1978 - Two FBI agents testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations that the bureau's long-term surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was based solely on FBI head J. Edgar Hoover's "hatred of the civil rights leader" and not on the civil right's leader's alleged communist influences or linkages with radical groups.

● 1979 - The Ayatollah Khomeini, (known as "Chuckles" to close friends) the leader of Iran, orders the release of 13 female and black hostages in Teheran, citing American women and African-Americans as among the groups oppressed by the government of the United States.

● 1979 - Jamaican-born Arthur Lewis, along with Theodore Schultz, is named the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "pioneering research into economic development...with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries."

● 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) founded in Mexico.

● 1985 - The first edition of Phrack is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence.

● 1986 - French car chief shot dead; The head of the Renault car company, Georges Besse, is assassinated outside his home in Paris.

● 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). It also fragments the country into pieces.

● 1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan became active again and erupted.

● 1991 - 1,603 African-American women protest Clarence Thomas's appointment to U.S. Supreme Court after Senate confirmation hearings deride testimony of Thomas's long-standing pattern of sexual harassment.

● 1992 - After a 14-year battle with cancer, self-described "Black lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde, dies in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Her battle with cancer is examined in "The Cancer Journals" (1980), which also contains a feminist critique of the medical profession.

● 1992 - The Sequoyah Fuels Uranium-Processing facility in Oklahoma releases a cloud of nitrogen dioxide. The release exposes 34 people to the carcinogen. Most are hospitalized with bleeding eardrums and blistered eyeballs or lungs. Since opening in 1971, the uranium plant -- owned by General Atomics -- had tallied 15,000 violations of state and federal law. For years, the group Native Americans for a Clean Environment had publicized the violations and organized demonstrations. In 1992, the group devoted all its money for a legal team and publicity. Within a week of today's nitrogen-dioxide release, General Atomics closes the plant to avoid new litigation.

● 1992 - Dateline NBC airs a demonstration showing General Motors trucks, with their gas tanks exploding upon side impacts. It's later revealed NBC rigged the test.

● 1995 - Bettino Craxi, who served as Italy's first Socialist prime minister from 1983 to 1987, is indicted on corruption charges along with 74 others, many present or former government officials. Silvio Berlusconi, Italian opposition leader in power after the Christian Democrats fell in 1994, is also implicated. In December of 1995, Berlusconi is forced to resign. In the subsequent trial, the intimate connection between the government and the Italian Mafia is exposed, and in some cases the differences between these two organizations is heavily blurred. In 2001, Berlusconi returns to power, becoming a close ally of George W. Bush and unleashing a neo-fascist police attack upon demonstrators at a massive July 2001 demonstration in Genoa.

● 1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people, most of them foreign tourists, are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police killed the assailants).

● 1998 - Israel's parliament overwhelmingly approved the Wye River land-for-peace accord with the Palestinians.

● 2000 - The Florida Supreme Court froze the state's presidential tally, forbidding Secretary of State Katherine Harris to certify results of the marathon vote count in the race between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.

● 2000 - Catastrophical landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophies in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

● 2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

● 2000 - Grand opening of the first free-standing Khaneghah (Sufi center) outside of a majority Muslim country, in Falls Church, VA by Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi.

● 2001 - The Taliban confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden's military chief Mohammed Atef in an airstrike three days earlier.

● 2003 - John Allen Muhammad was convicted of two counts of capital murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings.

● 2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated as the 38th Governor of California.

● 2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.

● 2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes officialised in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.

● 2005 - U.S. Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, considered one of Congress' most hawkish Democrats, called for an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

● 2005 - A jury in Sarasota, Fla., convicted mechanic Joseph Smith of kidnapping, raping and strangling 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, whose abduction had been captured by a car-wash security camera.

BIRTHS

● 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)

● 1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)

● 1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)

● 1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)

● 1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)

● 1681 - Pierre François le Courayer , French theologian (d. 1776)

● 1685 - Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye, French-Canadian soldier, fur trader and explorer (d. 1749)

● 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1783)

● 1755 - Louis XVIII of France, King (1814-24) (d. 1824)

● 1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)

● 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)

● 1793 - Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)

● 1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)

● 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)

● 1835 - Andrew L. Harris, Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)

● 1857 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)

● 1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)

● 1868 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)

● 1878 - Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)

● 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)

● 1887 - Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)

● 1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)

● 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)

● 1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)

● 1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)

● 1897 - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)

● 1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)

● 1901 - Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982)

● 1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian born American director, pioneered the technique of "method acting" (d. 1982)

● 1902 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

● 1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)

● 1905 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)

● 1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)

● 1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1992)

● 1906 - Rollie Stiles, American Baseball Player

● 1907 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)

● 1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)

● 1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)

● 1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)

● 1922 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

● 1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)

● 1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)

● 1925 - Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor

● 1928 - Rance Howard, American actor

● 1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)

● 1934 - James Inhofe, U.S. senator, R-Okla.

● 1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier

● 1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)

● 1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)

● 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer

● 1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)

● 1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director

● 1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician

● 1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress and model

● 1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor

● 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect

● 1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian born American TV producer (''Saturday Night Live'')

● 1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1944 - Jim Boeheim, College basketball coach

● 1945 - Roland Joffe, Director

● 1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa

● 1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter

● 1948 - Howard Dean, American physician, former governor and politician (Democratic Party chairman)

● 1949 - Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam

● 1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, British businessman

● 1951 - Stephen Root, American actor

● 1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player

● 1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal

● 1955 - Yolanda King, Actress-director

● 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress

● 1959 - William Moses, Actor

● 1960 - Jonathan Ross, British presenter

● 1960 - RuPaul, American Entertainer

● 1963 - Dylan Walsh, Actor

● 1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)

● 1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban born American model and actress

● 1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress

● 1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer

● 1967 - Ronnie DeVoe, ● R&B singer (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe)

● 1967 - Ben Wilson, Rock musician (Blues Traveler)

● 1968 - Jeff Allen, R&B musician (Mint Condition)

● 1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress

● 1969 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player

● 1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor

● 1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)

● 1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater

● 1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer

● 1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player

● 1973 - Leslie Bib, Actress

● 1975 - Diane Neal, American actress

● 1976 - Brandon Call, American actor

● 1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer

● 1977 - 29 Aaron Lines, Country singer

● 1978 - Rachel McAdams, Actress

● 1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player

● 1979 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler

● 1980 - Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)

● 1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)

● 1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player

● 1983 - Christopher Paolini, author

● 1988 - Justin Cooper, Actor

● 1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress

DEATHS

● 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)

● 594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)

● 641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)

● 680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)

● 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)

● 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)

● 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)

● 1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)

● 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)

● 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)

● 1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)

● 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)

● 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)

● 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)

● 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (b. 1602)

● 1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer

● 1665 - John Earle, English bishop

● 1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)

● 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)

● 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)

● 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)

● 1720 - Calico Jack, English Pirate

● 1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)

● 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, British statesman (b. 1693)

● 1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)

● 1789 - Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, child of Bonnie Prince Charlie (b. 1753)

● 1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)

● 1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)

● 1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)

● 1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)

● 1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)

● 1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)

● 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)

● 1922 - Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1847)

● 1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)

● 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)

● 1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)

● 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)

● 1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)

● 1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)

● 1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)

● 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)

● 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)

● 1980 - Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi Sufi order (b. 1916)

● 1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)

● 1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)

● 1986 - Georges Besse, president of Renault (b. 1927)

● 1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)

● 1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)

● 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

● 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

● 2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)

● 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)

● 2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)

● 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)

● 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)

● 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)

● 2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic Commerations:
● St. Elisabeth of Hungary, Princess/Widow (Also Lutheran)
● St. Gregory of Tours
● St. Hilda of Whitby
● St. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln(also Anglican)
● St. Roque Gonzalez de Santa Cruz
● St. Hugh
● St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
● St. Hilda
● St. Acisclus
● St. Alphaeus
● St. Anianus (also Anglican, bishop/martyr)
● St. Dionysius of Alexandria
● St. Hugh of Noara
● St. Namasius
● Bl. Salomea
● Martyrs of Paraguay

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar November 4 (Civil Date: November 17)
● St. Ioannicius the Great
● Hieromartyrs Nicander, Bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter.
● St. Nicander, abbot of Gorodensk (Novgorod).
● St. Mercurius, faster of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Paul, Metropolitan of Tobolsk.
● St. Sylvia, mother of St. Gregory the Dialogist.
● Blessed Simon of Yurievits.

● Greek Calendar
● Martyr Porphyrius the Mime of Caesarea.
● St. John Vataxis the Merciful, emperor.
● Repose of Schemamonk Mark of Sarov Monastery (1817).

● International Students Day

● Life Day

● Slovakia - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day commemorating the beginning of the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

● National Ska Day (USA)

● Zaire : Army Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : National Children's Book Week Begins ( Monday )
● West Germany : Repentance Day ( Wednesday )

OTHER

● - "17 November" is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising.


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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