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What happend on 17. November in History
In our data base we found 354 events happened on 17. November:
• 9: Vespasian, Roman emperor (d. 79) [category: Births]
• 344: Emperor Kang of Jin (b. 322) [category: Deaths]
• 375: Valentinian I, Roman emperor (b. 321) [category: Deaths]
• 474: Leo II, Byzantine emperor (b. 467) [category: Deaths]
• 474: Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of 10 months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. [category: Events]
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• 641: Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593) [category: Deaths]
• 794: Japanese Emperor Kammu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto. [category: Events]
• 885: Liutgard of Saxony (b. 845) [category: Deaths]
• 1104: Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (b. 1045) [category: Deaths]
• 1183: The Battle of Mizushima. [category: Events]
• 1231: Elizabeth of Hungary (b. 1207) [category: Deaths]
• 1292: John Balliol becomes King of Scotland. [category: Events]
• 1326: Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285) [category: Deaths]
• 1492: Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414) [category: Deaths]
• 1494: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463) [category: Deaths]
• 1503: Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1572) [category: Births]
• 1511: Spain and England ally against France. [category: Events]
• 1558: Mary I of England (b. 1516) [category: Deaths]
• 1558: Reginald Pole, English archbishop (b. 1500) [category: Deaths]
• 1558: Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. [category: Events]
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• 1562: Antoine of Navarre (b. 1518) [category: Deaths]
• 1576: Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628) [category: Births]
• 1587: Joost van den Vondel, Dutch playwright (d. 1679) [category: Births]
• 1592: John III of Sweden (b. 1537) [category: Deaths]
• 1600: Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese navy commander (b. 1542) [category: Deaths]
• 1603: English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. [category: Events]
• 1612: Dorgon, Manchu son of Nurhaci (d. 1650) [category: Births]
• 1632: Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594) [category: Deaths]
• 1643: Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French marshal (b. 1602) [category: Deaths]
• 1648: Thomas Ford, English composer (b. 1580) [category: Deaths]
• 1659: The Treaty of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain. [category: Events]
• 1665: John Earle, English bishop (b. 1601) [category: Deaths]
• 1668: Joseph Alleine, English pastor and author (b. 1634) [category: Deaths]
• 1681: Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776) [category: Births]
• 1685: Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian military officer and explorer (d. 1749) [category: Births]
• 1690: Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier and politician (b. 1610) [category: Deaths]
• 1708: Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631) [category: Deaths]
• 1713: Abraham van Riebeeck, South African politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653) [category: Deaths]
• 1720: Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682) [category: Deaths]
• 1729: Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (d. 1785) [category: Births]
• 1747: Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668) [category: Deaths]
• 1749: Nicolas Appert, French chef, inventor of canning (d. 1841) [category: Births]
• 1753: Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (d. 1815) [category: Births]
• 1755: Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824) [category: Births]
• 1765: Jacques MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840) [category: Births]
• 1768: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693) [category: Deaths]
• 1776: James Ferguson, English astronomer (b. 1710) [category: Deaths]
• 1777: Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification. [category: Events]
• 1780: Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720) [category: Deaths]
• 1790: August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868) [category: Births]
• 1793: Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter (d. 1865) [category: Births]
• 1794: Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738) [category: Deaths]
• 1796: Catherine the Great, Russian wife of Peter III of Russia (b. 1729) [category: Deaths]
• 1796: French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole – French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy. [category: Events]
• 1800: The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C. [category: Events]
• 1808: David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721) [category: Deaths]
• 1810: Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place. [category: Events]
• 1811: José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile. [category: Events]
• 1816: August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876) [category: Births]
• 1818: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744) [category: Deaths]
• 1820: Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him). [category: Events]
• 1827: Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian poet (d. 1895) [category: Births]
• 1831: Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia. [category: Events]
• 1835: Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1835: Carle Vernet, French painter (b. 1758) [category: Deaths]
• 1839: Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy [category: Events]
• 1849: Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 1794) [category: Deaths]
• 1854: Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1855: David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1857: Joseph Babiński, French neurologist (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1858: Robert Owen, Welsh activist (b. 1771) [category: Deaths]
• 1858: Modified Julian Day zero. [category: Events]
• 1863: American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins – Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee, under siege. [category: Events]
• 1865: James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813) [category: Deaths]
• 1866: Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1868: Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1869: In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated. [category: Events]
• 1871: The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York. [category: Events]
• 1876: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia. [category: Events]
• 1877: Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1878: Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1878: Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1878: First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante. armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg. [category: Events]
• 1886: Walter Terence Stace, English philosopher (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1887: Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English army officer (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1895: Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author, and poet (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1895: Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1896: Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1896: The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino. [category: Events]
• 1897: Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1897: George Hendric Houghton, American clergyman (b. 1820) [category: Deaths]
• 1899: Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1901: Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1901: Walter Hallstein, German politician and diplomat, 1st President of the European Commission (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1902: Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1902: Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian (b. 1847) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). [category: Events]
• 1904: Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1905: Astrid of Sweden (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1905: Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1905: Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817) [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1906: Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1907: Israel Regardie, English occultist and author (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1910: Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Christian Fouchet, French politician (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 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, D.C. [category: Events]
• 1916: Shelby Foote, American historian and author (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1917: Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested by Edward George Honey. [category: Events]
• 1920: Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1921: Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter [category: Births]
• 1922: Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1922: Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician (b. 1847) [category: Deaths]
• 1922: Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy. [category: Events]
• 1923: Aristides Pereira, Portuguese-Cape Verdean politician, 1st President of Cape Verde (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1923: Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1923: Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish bishop (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1923: Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1924: Leonid Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1924: Gregory VII, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Charles Mackerras,American-Australian conductor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1925: Jean Faut, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1925: Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1926: Robert Brown, American actor [category: Births]
• 1927: Fenella Fielding, English actress [category: Births]
• 1927: Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer [category: Births]
• 1928: Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1928: Rance Howard, American actor [category: Births]
• 1928: Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1929: Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1929: Herman Hollerith, American businessman (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Bob Mathias, American decathlete, actor, and politician (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1933: Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player [category: Births]
• 1933: United States recognizes Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1934: Jim Inhofe, American politician, 32nd Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma [category: Births]
• 1935: Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player [category: Births]
• 1935: Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1936: Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1936: Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian singer (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Peter Cook, English comedian and actor (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1937: Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1938: Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician, 20th Mayor of Split (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: Auberon Waugh, English author (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1939: Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. [category: Events]
• 1940: Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, Turkish composer, author, and poet (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1940: Luke Kelly, Irish singer and banjo player (The Dubliners) (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1940: Eric Gill, English sculptor (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Robert Lane, Canadian soccer player (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Bob Gaudio, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Four Seasons) [category: Births]
• 1942: István Rosztóczy, Hungarian microbiologist [category: Births]
• 1942: Kang Kek Iew, Cambodian criminal [category: Births]
• 1942: Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor [category: Births]
• 1943: Lauren Hutton, American actress [category: Births]
• 1944: Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1944: Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds, The New Christy Minstrels, and Dillard & Clark) (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1944: Jim Boeheim, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1944: Lorne Michaels, Israeli-American television producer, created Saturday Night Live [category: Births]
• 1944: Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect, designed the Seattle Central Library [category: Births]
• 1944: Tom Seaver, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1945: Elvin Hayes, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1945: Roland Joffé, English-French director [category: Births]
• 1946: Martin Barre, English guitarist and songwriter (Jethro Tull) [category: Births]
• 1946: Terry Branstad, American politician, 39th Governor of Iowa [category: Births]
• 1947: Inky Mark, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Robert "Stewkey" Antoni American singer and keyboard player (Nazz and Fuse) [category: Births]
• 1947: Steven E. de Souza, American director, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1947: Victor Serge, Russian author and historian (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century. [category: Events]
• 1947: The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. [category: Events]
• 1948: East Bay Ray, American guitarist (Dead Kennedys) [category: Births]
• 1948: Howard Dean, American physician and politician, 79th Governor of Vermont [category: Births]
• 1949: John Boehner, American politician [category: Births]
• 1949: Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of Vietnam [category: Births]
• 1950: Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1950: Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama. [category: Events]
• 1951: Butch Davis, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1951: Dean Paul Martin, American singer, actor, and tennis player (Dino, Desi & Billy) (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1951: Stephen Root, American actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player [category: Births]
• 1953: Babis Tennes, Greek football manager [category: Births]
• 1953: The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland. [category: Events]
• 1954: Chopper Read, Australian author [category: Births]
• 1954: Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Dan Schnurrenberger, American canoe racer [category: Births]
• 1955: Dennis Maruk, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1955: Yolanda King, American daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1955: James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Graham Jones, English psychologist and author [category: Births]
• 1957: Debbie Thrower, English journalist [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1958: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1958: Mort Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Terry Fenwick, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1959: William R. Moses, American actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Mandy Yachad, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1960: Michael Hertwig, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1960: RuPaul, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer [category: Births]
• 1961: Pat Toomey, American politician [category: Births]
• 1961: Robert Stethem, American navy diver (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1961: Michael Rockefeller, American explorer (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Les Colocs) (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1962: President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region. [category: Events]
• 1963: Daniel Scott (writer), American writer [category: Births]
• 1963: Randy Black, Canadian drummer (Annihilator and Primal Fear) [category: Births]
• 1964: Mitch Williams, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1964: Ralph Garman, American actor and radio host [category: Births]
• 1964: Susan Rice, American diplomat, 27th United States Ambassador to the United Nations [category: Births]
• 1965: Amanda Brown, Australian violinist and composer (The Go-Betweens) [category: Births]
• 1966: Ben Allison, American bassist and composer [category: Births]
• 1966: Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress [category: Births]
• 1966: Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gods and Monsters) (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1966: Kate Ceberano, Australian singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1966: Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses and Love Spit Love) [category: Births]
• 1966: Sophie Marceau, French actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Tab Benoit American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1967: Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." [category: Events]
• 1968: Sean Miller, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1968: Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos. [category: Events]
• 1968: British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1969: Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player [category: Births]
• 1969: Rebecca Walker, American author [category: Births]
• 1969: Ryōtarō Okiayu, Japanese voice actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. [category: Events]
• 1970: Paul Allender, English guitarist and songwriter (Cradle of Filth and The Blood Divine) [category: Births]
• 1970: Luna programme: 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 is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. [category: Events]
• 1970: Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre. [category: Events]
• 1972: Joanne Goode, English badminton player [category: Births]
• 1972: Kimya Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moldy Peaches) [category: Births]
• 1972: Leonard Roberts, American actor [category: Births]
• 1973: Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1973: Andreas Hedlund, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (Vintersorg, Borknagar, Cronian, Fission, Waterclime, and Otyg) [category: Births]
• 1973: Bernd Schneider, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Eli Marrero, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. [category: Events]
• 1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook." [category: Events]
• 1974: Berto Romero, Spanish comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Leslie Bibb, American actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Jerome James, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Kinga Baranowska, Polish mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1975: Lord Infamous, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia) [category: Births]
• 1975: Roland de Marigny, South African-Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1976: Brandon Call, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Diane Neal, American actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Jacqueline Aguilera, Venezuelan model, Miss World 1995 [category: Births]
• 1976: Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Paul Shepherd, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer [category: Births]
• 1978: Glen Air, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1978: Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Reggie Wayne, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress and stuntwoman [category: Births]
• 1979: Matthew Spring, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: John Glascock, English singer and bass player (Jethro Tull, The Gods, Toe Fat, Carmen, and Chicken Shack) (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned. [category: Events]
• 1980: Brad Bradley, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1980: Isaac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hanson) [category: Births]
• 1980: Israel Idonije, Nigerian-Canadian football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Mercedes Martinez, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1981: Sarah Harding, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Girls Aloud) [category: Births]
• 1982: Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1982: Katie Feenstra-Mattera, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Lucy Durack, Australian actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Otacílio Mariano Neto, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1982: Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing. [category: Events]
• 1983: Christopher Paolini, American author [category: Births]
• 1983: Harry Lloyd, English actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Nick Markakis, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Ryan Bradley, American figure skater [category: Births]
• 1983: Ryan Braun, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Scott Moore, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Trevor Crowe, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. [category: Events]
• 1984: Amanda Evora, American figure skater [category: Births]
• 1984: Park Han-byul, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Panbanisha, American chimpanzee (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1986: Fabio Concas, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Nani, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Craig Noone, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer [category: Births]
• 1987: Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American columnist (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Costabile Farace, American gangster (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Mary Giatra Lemou, Greek actress (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 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). [category: Events]
• 1990: Shanica Knowles, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1990: Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts. [category: Events]
• 1992: Darian Weiss, American actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American author, poet, and activist (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. [category: Events]
• 1993: United States House of Representatives passes resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement after greater authority in trade negotiations was granted to President George Bush in 1991. [category: Events]
• 1994: Raquel Castro, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1995: Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lindisfarne) (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants). [category: Events]
• 1998: Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2000: Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. [category: Events]
• 2001: Harrison A. Williams, N.J. Democrat convicted in Abscam (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (Can) (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician, 1st Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Frank McCarthy, American painter (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Arnaud Maggs, Canadian photographer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Lea Gottlieb, Israeli fashion designer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Margaret Yorke, English author (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. [category: Events]
• _: Acisclus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Aignan of Orleans [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which National Survivors of Suicide Day can fall, while November 23 is the latest; celebrated on Saturday before Thanksgiving. (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Elisabeth of Hungary [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Gennadius of Constantinople (Greek Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Gregory Thaumaturgus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Gregory of Tours (Roman Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hilda of Whitby [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hugh of Lincoln [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Students' Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: November 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia) [category: Holidays and observances]