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| November 17th, 2006 (November 17 2006) | Event | Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg). | |
| November 17th, 2006 (November 17 2006) | Death | Ruth Brown, American blues singer (born in 1928) | |
| November 17th, 2006 (November 17 2006) | Death | Ferenc Puskas, Hungarian footballer (born in 1927) | |
| November 17th, 2006 (November 17 2006) | Death | Bo Schembechler, American football coach (born in 1929) | |
| November 17th, 2006 (November 17 2006) | Death | Flo Sandon s, Italian singer (born in 1924) | |
| November 17th, 2005 (November 17 2005) | Event | Italy s choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic. | |
| November 17th, 2005 (November 17 2005) | Death | Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (born in 1942) | |
| November 17th, 2004 (November 17 2004) | Event | Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation. | |
| November 17th, 2004 (November 17 2004) | Death | Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (born in 1970) | |
| November 17th, 2004 (November 17 2004) | Death | Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (born in 1941) | |
| November 17th, 2003 (November 17 2003) | Event | Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated as Governor of California. | |
| November 17th, 2003 (November 17 2003) | Death | Arthur Conley, American singer (born in 1946) | |
| November 17th, 2003 (November 17 2003) | Death | Don Gibson, American singer (born in 1928) | |
| November 17th, 2002 (November 17 2002) | Death | Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (born in 1915) | Abba Eban Quotes |
| November 17th, 2001 (November 17 2001) | Death | Michael Karoli, German guitarist (born in 1948) | |
| November 17th, 2000 (November 17 2000) | Event | 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. | |
| November 17th, 2000 (November 17 2000) | Event | Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. | |
| November 17th, 2000 (November 17 2000) | Death | Louis Eugene Felix Neel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1904) | |
| November 17th, 1998 (November 17 1998) | Death | Esther Rolle, American actress (born in 1920) | |
| November 17th, 1997 (November 17 1997) | Event | 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). | Hatshepsut Quotes |
| November 17th, 1995 (November 17 1995) | Death | Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne) | |
| November 17th, 1994 (November 17 1994) | Birth | Raquel Castro, American actress | |
| November 17th, 1993 (November 17 1993) | Death | Gerard D. Levesque, Canadian politician (born in 1926) | |
| November 17th, 1992 (November 17 1992) | Birth | Darian Weiss, American actor | |
| November 17th, 1990 (November 17 1990) | Event | Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts. | Saki Quotes |
| November 17th, 1990 (November 17 1990) | Birth | Shanica Knowles, American actress | |
| November 17th, 1990 (November 17 1990) | Death | Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1915) | |
| November 17th, 1989 (November 17 1989) | Event | 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). | |
| November 17th, 1989 (November 17 1989) | Death | Gus Farace, American gangster (born in 1960) | |
| November 17th, 1987 (November 17 1987) | Birth | Darren McKillion, Northern Irish sportsman | |
| November 17th, 1987 (November 17 1987) | Death | Paul Derringer, baseball player (born in 1906) | |
| November 17th, 1986 (November 17 1986) | Birth | Nani, Portuguese football player | |
| November 17th, 1986 (November 17 1986) | Death | Georges Besse, French automobile executive (born in 1927) | |
| November 17th, 1984 (November 17 1984) | Birth | Park Han-byul, South Korean actress | |
| November 17th, 1983 (November 17 1983) | Event | The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded. | |
| November 17th, 1983 (November 17 1983) | Birth | Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player | |
| November 17th, 1983 (November 17 1983) | Birth | Ryan Braun, American baseball player | |
| November 17th, 1983 (November 17 1983) | Birth | Scott Moore, American baseball player | |
| November 17th, 1983 (November 17 1983) | Birth | Nick Markakis, American baseball player | |
| November 17th, 1983 (November 17 1983) | Birth | Harry Lloyd, English actor | |
| November 17th, 1983 (November 17 1983) | Birth | Christopher Paolini, American novelist | |
| November 17th, 1982 (November 17 1982) | Birth | Katie Feenstra, American basketball player | |
| November 17th, 1982 (November 17 1982) | Birth | Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer | |
| November 17th, 1982 (November 17 1982) | Death | Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (born in 1905) | |
| November 17th, 1982 (November 17 1982) | Death | Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (born in 1924) | |
| November 17th, 1981 (November 17 1981) | Birth | Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud) | |
| November 17th, 1980 (November 17 1980) | Birth | Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler | |
| November 17th, 1980 (November 17 1980) | Birth | Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson) | |
| November 17th, 1980 (November 17 1980) | Birth | Mercedes Martinez, professional wrestler | |
| November 17th, 1980 (November 17 1980) | Death | Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (born in 1916) | |
| November 17th, 1979 (November 17 1979) | Birth | Matthew Spring, English footballer | |
| November 17th, 1979 (November 17 1979) | Death | John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull) | |
| November 17th, 1978 (November 17 1978) | Event | Burger Chef murders in USA | |
| November 17th, 1978 (November 17 1978) | Birth | Zoe Bell, New Zealand actress | |
| November 17th, 1978 (November 17 1978) | Birth | Reggie Wayne, American football player | |
| November 17th, 1977 (November 17 1977) | Birth | Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer | |
| November 17th, 1976 (November 17 1976) | Birth | Diane Neal, American actress | |
| November 17th, 1976 (November 17 1976) | Birth | Brandon Call, American actor | |
| November 17th, 1975 (November 17 1975) | Birth | Lord Infamous, Rapper | |
| November 17th, 1974 (November 17 1974) | Event | Alianca Operario-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l). | |
| November 17th, 1974 (November 17 1974) | Birth | Leslie Bibb, American actress | |
| November 17th, 1974 (November 17 1974) | Birth | Berto Romero, Spanish humorist | |
| November 17th, 1973 (November 17 1973) | Event | Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook". | |
| November 17th, 1973 (November 17 1973) | Event | The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. | |
| November 17th, 1973 (November 17 1973) | Birth | Eli Marrero, American baseball player | |
| November 17th, 1973 (November 17 1973) | Birth | Bernd Schneider, German footballer | |
| November 17th, 1973 (November 17 1973) | Birth | Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater | |
| November 17th, 1973 (November 17 1973) | Death | The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (born in 1878) | |
| November 17th, 1972 (November 17 1972) | Birth | Leonard Roberts, American actor | |
| November 17th, 1970 (November 17 1970) | Event | Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre. | |
| November 17th, 1970 (November 17 1970) | Event | Luna program: 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 was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. | |
| November 17th, 1970 (November 17 1970) | Event | Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse. | |
| November 17th, 1970 (November 17 1970) | Birth | Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth) | |
| November 17th, 1969 (November 17 1969) | Event | Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. | |
| November 17th, 1969 (November 17 1969) | Birth | Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player | |
| November 17th, 1969 (November 17 1969) | Birth | Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor | |
| November 17th, 1968 (November 17 1968) | Event | Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos. | |
| November 17th, 1968 (November 17 1968) | Birth | Amber Michaels, German porn actress | |
| November 17th, 1968 (November 17 1968) | Birth | Sean Miller, American basketball coach | |
| November 17th, 1968 (November 17 1968) | Death | Mervyn Peake, British writer (born in 1911) | Mervyn Peake Quotes |
| November 17th, 1967 (November 17 1967) | Event | Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we re taking...We are making progress." | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| November 17th, 1966 (November 17 1966) | Birth | Jeff Buckley, American musician (died in 1997) | |
| November 17th, 1966 (November 17 1966) | Birth | Sophie Marceau, French actress | |
| November 17th, 1966 (November 17 1966) | Birth | Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress | |
| November 17th, 1966 (November 17 1966) | Birth | Kate Ceberano, Australian singer | |
| November 17th, 1966 (November 17 1966) | Birth | Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N Roses) | |
| November 17th, 1965 (November 17 1965) | Birth | Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer | |
| November 17th, 1964 (November 17 1964) | Birth | Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality | |
| November 17th, 1964 (November 17 1964) | Birth | Mitch Williams, Major League Baseball player | |
| November 17th, 1962 (November 17 1962) | Event | President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| November 17th, 1962 (November 17 1962) | Birth | Dede Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (died in 2000) | |
| November 17th, 1961 (November 17 1961) | Birth | Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (died in 1985) | |
| November 17th, 1960 (November 17 1960) | Birth | Jonathan Ross, British presenter | |
| November 17th, 1960 (November 17 1960) | Birth | Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple | |
| November 17th, 1960 (November 17 1960) | Birth | RuPaul, American drag entertainer | |
| November 17th, 1959 (November 17 1959) | Birth | Terry Fenwick, English footballer | |
| November 17th, 1959 (November 17 1959) | Death | Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (born in 1887) | |
| November 17th, 1958 (November 17 1958) | Birth | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress | |
| November 17th, 1958 (November 17 1958) | Death | Mort Cooper, baseball player (born in 1913) | |
| November 17th, 1957 (November 17 1957) | Birth | Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader | |
| November 17th, 1955 (November 17 1955) | Birth | Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player | |
| November 17th, 1955 (November 17 1955) | Birth | Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (died in 2007) | Martin Luther Quotes |
| November 17th, 1955 (November 17 1955) | Death | James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (born in 1894) | |
| November 17th, 1954 (November 17 1954) | Event | Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt. | |
| November 17th, 1954 (November 17 1954) | Birth | Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal | |
| November 17th, 1953 (November 17 1953) | Event | The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland. | |
| November 17th, 1952 (November 17 1952) | Birth | Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player | |
| November 17th, 1951 (November 17 1951) | Birth | Stephen Root, American actor | |
| November 17th, 1951 (November 17 1951) | Birth | Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (died in 1987) | Paul Martin Quotes |
| November 17th, 1951 (November 17 1951) | Birth | Butch Davis, American football coach | |
| November 17th, 1950 (November 17 1950) | Event | Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet s head of state at the age of fifteen. | Tenzin Gyatso Quotes |
| November 17th, 1950 (November 17 1950) | Birth | Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner | |
| November 17th, 1949 (November 17 1949) | Birth | Nguy?n T?n Dung, Prime Minister of Vietnam | |
| November 17th, 1948 (November 17 1948) | Birth | Howard Dean, American politician | Howard Dean Quotes |
| November 17th, 1947 (November 17 1947) | Birth | Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter | |
| November 17th, 1947 (November 17 1947) | Birth | Inky Mark, Canadian politician | |
| November 17th, 1947 (November 17 1947) | Death | Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (born in 1890) | |
| November 17th, 1946 (November 17 1946) | Birth | Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa | |
| November 17th, 1946 (November 17 1946) | Birth | Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull) | |
| November 17th, 1945 (November 17 1945) | Birth | Elvin Hayes, American basketball player | |
| November 17th, 1945 (November 17 1945) | Birth | Roland Joffe, Anglo-French film director | |
| November 17th, 1944 (November 17 1944) | Birth | Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach | |
| November 17th, 1944 (November 17 1944) | Birth | Danny DeVito, American actor | Danny Devito Quotes |
| November 17th, 1944 (November 17 1944) | Birth | Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect | |
| November 17th, 1944 (November 17 1944) | Birth | Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer | |
| November 17th, 1944 (November 17 1944) | Birth | Tom Seaver, baseball player | |
| November 17th, 1944 (November 17 1944) | Birth | Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (died in 1991) | |
| November 17th, 1943 (November 17 1943) | Birth | Lauren Hutton, American actress | |
| November 17th, 1942 (November 17 1942) | Birth | Martin Scorsese, American film director | |
| November 17th, 1942 (November 17 1942) | Birth | Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician | |
| November 17th, 1942 (November 17 1942) | Death | Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (born in 1879) | |
| November 17th, 1940 (November 17 1940) | Birth | Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player | |
| November 17th, 1940 (November 17 1940) | Death | Eric Gill, British sculptor (born in 1882) | Eric Gill Quotes |
| November 17th, 1940 (November 17 1940) | Death | Raymond Pearl, American biologist (born in 1879) | |
| November 17th, 1939 (November 17 1939) | Event | Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to concentration camps. | |
| November 17th, 1939 (November 17 1939) | Event | The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created. | |
| November 17th, 1939 (November 17 1939) | Birth | Auberon Waugh, British author (died in 2001) | |
| November 17th, 1938 (November 17 1938) | Birth | Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer | |
| November 17th, 1938 (November 17 1938) | Death | Ante Trumbic, Croatian politician (born in 1864) | |
| November 17th, 1937 (November 17 1937) | Birth | Peter Cook, British comedian (died in 1995) | Peter Cook Quotes |
| November 17th, 1937 (November 17 1937) | Death | Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (born in 1860) | |
| November 17th, 1936 (November 17 1936) | Birth | Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (died in 2005) | |
| November 17th, 1936 (November 17 1936) | Death | Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (born in 1861) | |
| November 17th, 1935 (November 17 1935) | Birth | Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player | |
| November 17th, 1935 (November 17 1935) | Birth | Toni Sailer, Austrian skier | |
| November 17th, 1934 (November 17 1934) | Birth | Fenella Fielding, English actress | |
| November 17th, 1934 (November 17 1934) | Birth | James Inhofe, American politician, senior senator from Oklahoma | |
| November 17th, 1933 (November 17 1933) | Event | United States recognizes Soviet Union. | |
| November 17th, 1933 (November 17 1933) | Birth | Orlando Pena, Cuban baseball player | |
| November 17th, 1930 (November 17 1930) | Birth | Bob Mathias, American decathlete (died in 2006) | |
| November 17th, 1929 (November 17 1929) | Birth | Norm Zauchin, baseball player (died in 1999) | |
| November 17th, 1929 (November 17 1929) | Death | Herman Hollerith, American statistician (born in 1860) | |
| November 17th, 1928 (November 17 1928) | Birth | Rance Howard, American actor | |
| November 17th, 1928 (November 17 1928) | Death | Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (born in 1865) | |
| November 17th, 1927 (November 17 1927) | Birth | Robert Brown, American actor | |
| November 17th, 1925 (November 17 1925) | Birth | Rock Hudson, American actor (died in 1985) | |
| November 17th, 1925 (November 17 1925) | Birth | Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor | |
| November 17th, 1923 (November 17 1923) | Birth | Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (died in 2001) | |
| November 17th, 1923 (November 17 1923) | Birth | Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm | |
| November 17th, 1923 (November 17 1923) | Birth | Mike Garcia, American baseball player (died in 1986) | |
| November 17th, 1922 (November 17 1922) | Event | Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy. | |
| November 17th, 1922 (November 17 1922) | Birth | Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| November 17th, 1922 (November 17 1922) | Death | Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (born in 1847) | |
| November 17th, 1921 (November 17 1921) | Birth | Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter | |
| November 17th, 1921 (November 17 1921) | Death | Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist | |
| November 17th, 1920 (November 17 1920) | Birth | Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (died in 2005) | |
| November 17th, 1919 (November 17 1919) | Event | King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey. | George V of the United Kingdom Quotes |
| November 17th, 1917 (November 17 1917) | Death | Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (born in 1840) | |
| November 17th, 1916 (November 17 1916) | Birth | Shelby Foote, American historian (died in 2005) | |
| November 17th, 1911 (November 17 1911) | Event | The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at a historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. | |
| November 17th, 1911 (November 17 1911) | Birth | Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (died in 1974) | |
| November 17th, 1910 (November 17 1910) | Death | Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st American pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado. | |
| November 17th, 1907 (November 17 1907) | Birth | Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley s secretary (died in 1985) | Aleister Crowley Quotes |
| November 17th, 1906 (November 17 1906) | Birth | Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (died in 1992) | Soichiro Honda Quotes |
| November 17th, 1906 (November 17 1906) | Birth | Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (died in 2007) | |
| November 17th, 1905 (November 17 1905) | Event | The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea. | |
| November 17th, 1905 (November 17 1905) | Birth | Queen Astrid of the Belgians (died in 1935) | |
| November 17th, 1905 (November 17 1905) | Birth | Mischa Auer, American actor (died in 1967) | |
| November 17th, 1905 (November 17 1905) | Death | Adolphe of Luxembourg, (born in 1817) | |
| November 17th, 1904 (November 17 1904) | Birth | Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (died in 1988) | |
| November 17th, 1903 (November 17 1903) | Event | The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). | |
| November 17th, 1903 (November 17 1903) | Event | Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate. | |
| November 17th, 1902 (November 17 1902) | Birth | Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1995) | |
| November 17th, 1902 (November 17 1902) | Death | Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (born in 1847) | |
| November 17th, 1901 (November 17 1901) | Birth | Walter Hallstein, German politician (died in 1982) | |
| November 17th, 1901 (November 17 1901) | Birth | Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (died in 1982) | |
| November 17th, 1899 (November 17 1899) | Birth | Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (died in 1971) | |
| November 17th, 1897 (November 17 1897) | Birth | Frank Fay, American actor (died in 1961) | |
| November 17th, 1897 (November 17 1897) | Death | George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (born in 1820) | |
| November 17th, 1896 (November 17 1896) | Birth | Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (died in 1934) | |
| November 17th, 1895 (November 17 1895) | Birth | Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (died in 1975) | Philo Quotes |
| November 17th, 1895 (November 17 1895) | Birth | Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Mexican author (died in 1966) | |
| November 17th, 1894 (November 17 1894) | Birth | Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (died in 1972) | |
| November 17th, 1887 (November 17 1887) | Birth | Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (died in 1976) | |
| November 17th, 1878 (November 17 1878) | Event | First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy. | |
| November 17th, 1878 (November 17 1878) | Birth | Grace Abbott, American social worker (died in 1939) | |
| November 17th, 1878 (November 17 1878) | Birth | Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (died in 1968) | |
| November 17th, 1877 (November 17 1877) | Birth | Frank Calder, the first NHL President (died in 1943) | |
| November 17th, 1876 (November 17 1876) | Event | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky s patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people. | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Quotes |
| November 17th, 1871 (November 17 1871) | Event | The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York. | |
| November 17th, 1869 (November 17 1869) | Event | In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony. | |
| November 17th, 1868 (November 17 1868) | Birth | Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (died in 1918) | |
| November 17th, 1866 (November 17 1866) | Birth | Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (died in 1912) | Voltairine de Cleyre Quotes |
| November 17th, 1865 (November 17 1865) | Death | James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (born in 1813) | James McCune Smith Quotes |
| November 17th, 1863 (November 17 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville beginsConfederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege. | |
| November 17th, 1858 (November 17 1858) | Event | Modified Julian Day zero. | Julian Quotes |
| November 17th, 1858 (November 17 1858) | Death | Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (born in 1771) | |
| November 17th, 1857 (November 17 1857) | Birth | Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (died in 1932) | |
| November 17th, 1856 (November 17 1856) | Event | 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. | |
| November 17th, 1855 (November 17 1855) | Event | David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe. | |
| November 17th, 1854 (November 17 1854) | Birth | Hubert Lyautey, French general (died in 1934) | |
| November 17th, 1849 (November 17 1849) | Death | Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, German priest and miracle-worker (born in 1794) | |
| November 17th, 1835 (November 17 1835) | Birth | Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (died in 1915) | |
| November 17th, 1835 (November 17 1835) | Death | Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (born in 1758) | Horace Quotes |
| November 17th, 1831 (November 17 1831) | Event | Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia. | |
| November 17th, 1827 (November 17 1827) | Event | The Delta Phi fraternity, America s oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York. | |
| November 17th, 1827 (November 17 1827) | Birth | Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (died in 1895) | |
| November 17th, 1820 (November 17 1820) | Event | Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him). | |
| November 17th, 1818 (November 17 1818) | Death | Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III (born in 1744) | |
| November 17th, 1816 (November 17 1816) | Birth | August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (died in 1876) | |
| November 17th, 1812 (November 17 1812) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi. | |
| November 17th, 1808 (November 17 1808) | Death | David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (born in 1721) | |
| November 17th, 1800 (November 17 1800) | Event | The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress. | |
| November 17th, 1799 (November 17 1799) | Birth | Titian Peale, American artist (died in 1885) | |
| November 17th, 1796 (November 17 1796) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of ArcoleFrench forces defeat the Austrians in Italy. | |
| November 17th, 1796 (November 17 1796) | Death | Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (born in 1729) | |
| November 17th, 1794 (November 17 1794) | Death | Jacques Francois Dugommier, French general (born in 1738) | |
| November 17th, 1793 (November 17 1793) | Birth | Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (died in 1865) | |
| November 17th, 1790 (November 17 1790) | Birth | August Ferdinand Mobius, German mathematician (died in 1868) | |
| November 17th, 1780 (November 17 1780) | Death | Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (born in 1720) | |
| November 17th, 1777 (November 17 1777) | Event | Articles of Confederation was submitted to the states for ratification. | |
| November 17th, 1776 (November 17 1776) | Death | James Ferguson, British astronomer (born in 1710) | |
| November 17th, 1768 (November 17 1768) | Death | Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1693) | |
| November 17th, 1765 (November 17 1765) | Birth | Etienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (died in 1840) | |
| November 17th, 1755 (November 17 1755) | Birth | Louis XVIII of France (died in 1824) | |
| November 17th, 1747 (November 17 1747) | Death | Alain-Rene Lesage, French writer (born in 1668) | Alain-Rene Lesage Quotes |
| November 17th, 1729 (November 17 1729) | Birth | Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (died in 1785) | |
| November 17th, 1720 (November 17 1720) | Death | Calico Jack, English pirate (born in 1682) | |
| November 17th, 1713 (November 17 1713) | Death | Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born in 1653) | Abraham Quotes |
| November 17th, 1708 (November 17 1708) | Death | Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (born in 1631) | |
| November 17th, 1690 (November 17 1690) | Death | Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (born in 1610) | |
| November 17th, 1685 (November 17 1685) | Birth | Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (died in 1749) | |
| November 17th, 1681 (November 17 1681) | Birth | Pierre Francois le Courayer, French theologian (died in 1776) | |
| November 17th, 1668 (November 17 1668) | Death | Joseph Alleine, English preacher (born in 1634) | |
| November 17th, 1665 (November 17 1665) | Death | John Earle, English bishop | |
| November 17th, 1659 (November 17 1659) | Event | Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain. | |
| November 17th, 1648 (November 17 1648) | Death | Thomas Ford, English composer | |
| November 17th, 1643 (November 17 1643) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guebriant, Marshal of France (born in 1602) | |
| November 17th, 1632 (November 17 1632) | Death | Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (born in 1594) | |
| November 17th, 1612 (November 17 1612) | Birth | Dorgon, Manchu prince (died in 1650) | |
| November 17th, 1603 (November 17 1603) | Event | English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. | Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes |
| November 17th, 1600 (November 17 1600) | Death | Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (born in 1542) | |
| November 17th, 1592 (November 17 1592) | Death | John III of Sweden (born in 1537) | |
| November 17th, 1587 (November 17 1587) | Birth | Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (died in 1679) | |
| November 17th, 1576 (November 17 1576) | Birth | Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (died in 1628) | |
| November 17th, 1562 (November 17 1562) | Death | Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (born in 1518) | |
| November 17th, 1558 (November 17 1558) | Event | Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. | Mary I of England Quotes |
| November 17th, 1558 (November 17 1558) | Death | Mary I of England (born in 1516) | Mary I of England Quotes |
| November 17th, 1558 (November 17 1558) | Death | Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (born in 1500) | |
| November 17th, 1511 (November 17 1511) | Event | Spain and England ally against France. | |
| November 17th, 1503 (November 17 1503) | Birth | Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (died in 1572) | |
| November 17th, 1502 (November 17 1502) | Birth | Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (died in 1533) | |
| November 17th, 1494 (November 17 1494) | Death | Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (born in 1463) | Philo Quotes |
| November 17th, 1326 (November 17 1326) | Death | Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (born in 1285) | |
| November 17th, 1302 (November 17 1302) | Death | St. Gertrude the Great (born in 1256) | |
| November 17th, 1292 (November 17 1292) | Event | (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland. | |
| November 17th, 1231 (November 17 1231) | Death | Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (born in 1207) | |
| November 17th, 1183 (November 17 1183) | Event | Battle of Mizushima. | |
| November 17th, 0885 (November 17 0885) | Death | Queen Liutgard | |
| November 17th, 0680 (November 17 0680) | Death | Hilda of Whitby (born in 614) | |
| November 17th, 0641 (November 17 0641) | Death | Emperor Jomei of Japan (born in 593) | |
| November 17th, 0594 (November 17 0594) | Death | Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (born in c.539) | |
| November 17th, 0473 (November 17 0473) | Event | The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I. | |
| November 17th, 0375 (November 17 0375) | Death | Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (born in 321) | |
| November 17th, 0284 (November 17 0284) | Event | Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers. | |
| November 17th, 0009 (November 17 0009) | Birth | Vespasian, Roman Emperor (died in 79) | |
