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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David Livingstone -
Victoria Falls -
Douglas Engelbart's first computer mouse -
Suez Canal
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Students' Day | no footnotes |
| 794 – The Japanese Emperor Kanmu moved his residence from Nara to Kyoto, beginning the Heian period. | unreferenced section |
| 1592 – Sigismund III Vasa, who was already King of Poland, became the King of Sweden succeeding his father John III. | Sigismund: unreferenced section; John: 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. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – Police quelled a student demonstration in Prague, sparking the Velvet Revolution aimed at overthrowing the Czechoslovakian communist government. | Tagged with {{Refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1405 – The Sultanate of Sulu was established on the Sulu Archipelago off the coast of Mindanao in the Philippines.
- 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era.
- 1869 – The Suez Canal opened, allowing shipping to travel between Europe and Asia via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
- 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.
- 1855 – Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1997 – Sixty-two people were killed by terrorists outside the Deir el-Bahri in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
Notes
- David Livingstone appears on November 10, so Victoria Falls should not appear in the same year
- 1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus.
- 1839 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
- 1950 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (pictured), was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
- 1993 – General Sani Abacha ousted Ernest Shonekan to become chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria.
- 2009 – Administrators at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia discovered that their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.