Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 17
This is a list of selected November 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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The Djeser-Djeseru at the Deir el-Bahri (Temple of Hatshepsut) -
Queen Elizabeth I of England -
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Douglas Engelbart's first computer mouse -
Suez Canal -
Eulsa Treaty -
H. H. Holmes
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Students' Day | no footnotes |
| 794 – Emperor Kanmu of Japan moved his residence from Nara to Kyoto, beginning the Heian period. | unreferenced section |
| 1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus. | lots of CN tags (5) |
| 1405 – The Sultanate of Sulu was established on the Sulu Archipelago off the coast of Mindanao in the Philippines. | multiple issues |
| 1869 – The Suez Canal opened, allowing shipping to travel between Europe and Asia via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. | refimprove section |
| 1894 – H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, was arrested in Boston after killing at least nine people. | trivial pop culture |
| 1905 – Influenced by the result of the Russo-Japanese War, the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire signed the Eulsa Treaty, effectively depriving Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty. | refimprove |
| 1969 – Cold War: Representatives from the Soviet Union and the United States met in Helsinki to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. | refimprove |
| 1970 – The Soviet Union's Lunokhod 1 landed on the Moon to become the first roving remote-controlled robot to operate on another celestial body. | unreferenced section |
| 1970 – American inventor Douglas Engelbart received the patent for the first computer mouse. | cleanup section, expansion, refimprove section |
| 1989 – Police quelled a student demonstration in Prague, sparking the Velvet Revolution aimed at overthrowing the Czechoslovakian communist government. | multiple issues |
| 1993 – General Sani Abacha ousted Ernest Shonekan to become chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria. | insufficient context |
Eligible
- 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and of Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era.
- 1592 – Sigismund III Vasa, who was already King of Poland, succeeded his father John III as King of Sweden.
- 1839 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, premiered at La Scala in Milan.
- 1962 – John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicated Dulles International Airport, one of three major airports in the Baltimore–Washington, D.C. area.
- 1978 – The television show Star Wars Holiday Special was broadcast in the United States and became notorious for its extremely negative reception.
- 1997 – Sixty-two people were killed by Islamist terrorists outside Deir el-Bahari in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
- 2013 – Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all fifty people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.
- Born/died: | Chen Jinfeng |d|935| Zanobi Strozzi |b|1412| Agnes of Jesus |b|1602| Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain |b|1729| Nicolas Appert |b|1749| Bernardo Bellotto |d|1780| Grace Abbott |b|1878| Bernard Montgomery |b|1887| Rosemary Sinclair |b|1936| Cyril Ramaphosa |b|1952| Robert Hofstadter |d|1990| Rikard Wolff |d|2017
- 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the latter's line of retreat.
- 1950 – The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of fifteen.
- 1968 – NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
- 2009 – Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
- Nikephoros Melissenos (d. 1104)
- Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
- Petra Burka (b. 1946)