17 November

The 17t o November is the 321st day o the year (322nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 44 days bidin.

Events

1869: Boats on the Suez Canal

1989: Velvet Revolution

• 1292 - John Balliol becomes Keeng o Scots.
• 1558 - Elizabeth I o Ingland becomes Queen.
• 1777 - The Unitit States Airticles o Confederation are submittit tae the states for ratification.
• 1869 - The Suez Canal, in Egyp, opens.
• 1874 - Breetish sailin ship "Cospatrick" sinks in the Sooth Atlantic Ocean, killin 467 fowk.
• 1933 - The Unitit States recongises the Soviet Union.
• 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso is enthroned as the 14t Dalai Lama.
• 1973 - US Preses Richard Nixon says "I'm not a crook".
• 1989 - The Velvet Revolution stairts in Czechoslovakie.
• 1997 - 62 fowk are kilt in a shuitin in Luxor, Egyp.
• 2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removit as Preses o Peru.
• 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Govrenor o Californie.
• 2007 - Fitbaa: Scotland narrowly miss oot on qualification for the 2008 UEFA European Championship efter a late 2-1 defeat tae Italy at Hampden Park in Glesga.
• 2012 - Ower 50 schuil-bairns are kilt in an accident at a railwey crossin naur Malafut, Egyp.
• 2013 - Tatarstan Airlines Flicht 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, killin 50 fowk.

Births

Danny DeVito

Rachel McAdams

• 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
• 1749 - Nicolas Appert, French inventor (d. 1841)
• 1755 - Louis XVIII o Fraunce (d. 1824)
• 1784 - Ebenezer Henderson, Scots meenister an meesionar (d. 1858)
• 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
• 1839 - David Farquharson, Scots penter (d. 1907)
• 1887 - Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscoont Montgomery o Alamein, Breetish field marshal (d. 1976)
• 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Roushie philosopher, leeterar creetic an semiotician (d. 1975)
• 1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Soviet-Belaroushie psychologist (d. 1934)
• 1902 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American pheesicist (d. 1995)
• 1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
• 1923 - Aristides Pereira, 1st Preses o Cape Verde (d. 2011)
• 1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1928 - Rance Howard, American actor an writer (d. 2017)
• 1942 - Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter an actor
• 1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor, director an producer
• 1949 - John Boehner, American politeecian
• 1951 - Jack Vettriano, Scots penter
• 1952 - Cyril Ramaphosa, Preses o Sooth Africae
• 1964 - Susan Rice, American diplomat
• 1964 - Moses Sithole, Sooth African serial killer
• 1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
• 1975 - Ewan MacDonald, Scots curler
• 1978 - Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
• 1982 - Jim Hamilton, Inglis-Scots rugby union player
• 1986 - Nani, Portuguese fitbawer

Daiths

• 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
• 1558 - Mary I o Ingland (b. 1516)
• 1592 - John III o Swaden (b. 1537)
• 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke o Newcastle, Prime Meenister o Great Breetain (b. 1693)
• 1796 - Catherine the Great, Empress o Roushie (b. 1729)
• 1858 - Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (b. 1771)
• 1893 - Alexander I o Bulgarie (b. 1857)
• 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French penter (b. 1840)
• 1974 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, Preses o the Republic o Ireland (b. 1905)
• 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American pheesicist (b. 1915)
• 2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian fitbawer (b. 1927)
• 2013 - Doris Lessing, Inglis writer (b. 1919)

Halidays

• Internaitional Students' Day
• Struggle for Freedom an Democracy (Czech Republic an Slovakie)