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

* 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

* 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)

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