What are the important events that happened on November 17? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 17: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 17 is the 322nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 4, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 481,056 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosadigon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac 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 73 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,349 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 17 Historical Events
- 1183 –The Battle of Mizushima.
- 1659 –The Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
- 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.
- 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,DC.
- 1933 –United States recognizes Soviet Union.
- 1979 –Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
- 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.
Who were born on November 17?
- 1612 –Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
- 1790 –August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
- 1793 –Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
- 1886 –Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (d. 1967)
- 1895 –Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
- 1934 –Jim Inhofe, American politician
- 1942 –Kang Kek Iew, Cambodian politician and criminal
- 1944 –Tom Seaver, American baseball player
- 1948 –Howard Dean, American politician, 75th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont & 79th Governor of Vermont
- 1977 –Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
Who died on November 17?
- 594 –Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c. 538)
- 1747 –Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
- 1768 –Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
- 1776 –James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
- 1858 –Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
- 1902 –Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
- 1940 –Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
- 1954 –Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899)
- 1989 –Mary Giatra Lemou, Greek actress (b. 1915)
- 2004 –Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
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