| November 17 |
| 375 |
|
Enraged by the insolence of barbarian envoys, Valentinian,
the Emperor of the West, dies of apoplexy in Pannonia in Central Europe. |
| 1558 |
|
Queen Elizabeth ascends to the throne of England. |
| 1558 |
|
The Church of England is re-established. |
| 1636 |
|
Henrique Dias, Brazilian general, wins a decisive
battle against the Dutch in Brazil. |
| 1796 |
|
Napoleon Bonaparte defeats an Italian army near
the Alpone River, Italy. |
| 1800 |
|
The Sixth Congress (2nd session) convenes for the
first time in Washington, D.C. |
| 1842 |
|
A grim abolitionist meeting is held in Marlboro
Chapel, Boston, after the imprisonment of a mulatto named George Latimer, one
of the first fugitive slaves to be apprehended in Massachusetts. |
| 1862 |
|
Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out
of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign. |
| 1869 |
|
The Suez Canal is formally opened. |
| 1877 |
|
Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns
Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia. |
| 1885 |
|
The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades
Bulgaria. |
| 1903 |
|
Vladimir Lenin's efforts to impose his own radical
views on the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits the party into two factions,
the Bolsheviks, who support Lenin, and the Mensheviks. |
| 1913 |
|
The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which
connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
| 1918 |
|
Influenza deaths reported in the United States have
far exceeded World War I casualties. |
| 1918 |
|
German troops evacuate Brussels. |
| 1931 |
|
Charles Lindbergh inaugurates Pan Am service from
Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat American Clipper. |
| 1941 |
|
German Luftwaffe general and World War I
fighter-ace Ernst Udet commits suicide. The Nazi government tells the public that
he died in a flying accident. |
| 1951 |
|
Britain reports development of the world's first
nuclear-powered heating system. |
| 1965 |
|
The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry
at Landing Zone Albany in the Ia Drang Valley, almost wiping them out. |
| 1967 |
|
The American Surveyor 6 makes a six-second
flight on the moon, the first liftoff on the lunar surface. |
| 1970 |
|
Soviet unmanned Luna 17 touches down on the
moon. |
| 1980 |
|
WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the
first African-American public-broadcasting television station. |
| 1986 |
|
Renault President Georges Besse is shot to death
by leftists of the Direct Action Group in Paris. |
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