About November 17
November 17, 2025 is the 321st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 92 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 17
- 473 –The future Leo II is named associate emperor by Leo I.
- 1558 –Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
- 1800 –The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
- 1839 –Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
- 1855 –David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins – Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
- 1876 –Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.
- 1878 –First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
- 1939 –Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students’ Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
- 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.
- 1967 –Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, US 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.”
- 1968 –British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
- 1970 –Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
- 1973 –The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
- 1979 –Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
- 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).
- 1990 –Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
- 2000 –Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
- 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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