What Happened On Nov 17 Events

The purchased lands were initially appended to the existing New Mexico Territory. To help control the new land, the United States Army established Fort Buchanan on Sonoita Creek in presen...

After ten years of construction and costs more than double the original estimate, the Suez Canal opened on November 17, 1869. Stretching 101 miles across Egypt's Isthmus of Suez, from Por...

On the night of 17 November 1874, the immigrant ship Cospatrick was in the south Atlantic, several hundred kilometres south-west of Cape Town. The ship had left Gravesend more than two mo...

The University of Cambridge had come round to Darwinism, and on Saturday 17 November the family attended the Senate House for a ceremony in which Darwin was awarded an honorary Doctorate ...

Progressive Era reformer Grace Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska on November 17, 1878. Reared in a family of activists, Abbott grappled early on with political and social issues. ...

Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey. Firs...

It's a Gift is a 1934 comedy film starring W. C. Fields. Considered by many to be Fields' best and funniest film, it concerns the trials and tribulations of a grocery store owner as he...

Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor (already nicknamed "Lady Bird") of Karnack, Texas on November 17, 1934 after having attended Georgetown University Law School for several months. They ...

Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. After...

An American Prayer is a studio album by rock band The Doors. In 1978, seven years after Jim Morrison died and five years after the remaining members of the band broke up, Ray Manzarek, Ro...

The Star Wars Holiday Special was a two-hour television special (including commercials) set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was the first official Star Wars spinoff produced. It was directed ...

Darkness Descends is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Dark Angel. The album is the first to feature drummer Gene Hoglan. Rob Yahn was replaced with Mike Gonzalez ...

We're looking at it to insure that somebody didn't violate airspace we control,'' said Paul Steucke, a spokesman for the aviation agency. ''We looked at it about six weeks ago but since t...

The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. Distributed by Walt ...

A retired race car driver, talked into going undercover by the police, joins a biker gang and must serve as the getaway car driver. Catchphrase: Kicks!

The Predator is the third solo album by Ice Cube. Released within months of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, many songs comment on the racial tensions. The title is in part reference to the mo...

"The Mom & Pop Store" is the 94th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 7th episode for the 6th season. It aired on November 17, 1994. Plot Summary: George is set to buy a ...

Epivir is an antiviral medication that prevents human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cells from multiplying in your body. The Epivir brand of lamivudine is used to treat HIV, which cause...

GoldenEye (1995) is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell...

This attack, undertaken by members of Egypt's Islamic Group massacred 58 tourists and 4 Egyptians at the Temple of Hatsheput. Another 17 tourists and 9 Egyptians were injured. These membe...

Six gunmen shot the guard at Deir el-Bahari, a mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile and proceeded to gun down every tourist in sight. Sixty-two tourists and Egyptians would die, i...

War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc) is the fifth solo album by Ice Cube. The album features production work by Master P and moves from intense street-oriented jams to rap-metal fusions, suc...

Americana is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring, released on November 17, 1998. It debuted at 2 on the US Billboard 200 with around 174,000 copies sold in...

Starvin' Marvin finds an alien ship and begins searching out a new home for his people. The government interrogates the boys to find out about Marvin and direct them to Sally Struthers. M...

UFC 28: High Stakes was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 17, 2000 at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey. UFC 28 marked th...

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a critically acclaimed 3D action-adventure stealth video game, developed by Ubisoft Montreal and built on the Unreal Engine 2. It is the first Splinter Cell ...

"2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.)" is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the third and last single from their sixth album Hail to the Thief in 2003. The song reached ...

U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle is a concert video release by rock band U2 from the European leg of their Elevation Tour. Recorded on 1 September 2001 at Slane Castle on the band's fea...

The remaining girls had an acting lesson with Taye Diggs. When it came time for Taye to tell the girls how they did, he forgot Nicole. Then Tyra came out and announced that the girls woul...

The boys of South Park produce their own morning news show on the school’s closed-circuit television station and are immediately caught up in the intense competition for ratings.

A bonus live DVD entitled Vertigo 05: Live from Milan is included in the deluxe edition of the U218 Singles. The DVD features a highlight of ten songs from the band's 25-song set in Milan...

UFC 78: Validation was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), that took place on November 17, 2007 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Va...

TORONTO - His leaguewide reputation may say otherwise, but Tim Thomas has calmed down his game. Thomas, widely known as an unorthodox goalie, has evolved into a more efficient butterfly p...

Assassin's Creed II is an upcoming third person action-adventure video game being developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft, the sequel to Assassin's Creed. It is set to be r...

Battle Studies is the fourth studio album by American rock musician John Mayer. Released on November 17, 2009 by Columbia Records, the album was produced by Mayer and drummer Steve Jordan...

My World is the first release by Canadian singer, Justin Bieber. It is considered to be the first part of a two-part debut release. My World, being the first part is considered an extende...

Allen pens almost all of the 12 songs here (the exceptions being “Live Like We’re Dying,” “Written All Over My Face,” “The Truth”), which unifies the album to a degree, although he was al...

"I Wanna Rock" is the third official single off Snoop Dogg's tenth studio album, Malice n Wonderland. It was released digitally on iTunes on November 17, 2009, after the second single "Th...

The vaccine against the H1N1 influenza remains effective at half doses, according to a study by Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Novartis (NYSE:NVS) International AG released on Tuesday....

The main difference between this season's Rangers and the ones who blew that playoff series to the Capitals last April? These guys have Marian Gaborik, a superstar so skilled that he can ...

Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe. Researchers at CERN, th...

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, made his first court appearance before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh on Thursday, one day after he was arrested at a western Pen...