On this day in History - Nov. 17
- 0009 - Vespasian was born (d. 0079). Roman Emperor.
- 0284 - Diocletian was acclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
- 0375 - Valentinian I dies (b. 0321). Roman Emperor.
- 0473 - The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
- 0594 - Gregory of Tours dies (b. c. 0539). Bishop and historian.
- 0641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan dies (b. 0593).
- 0680 - Hilda of Whitby dies (b. 0614).
- 1183 - Battle of Mizushima.
- 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary dies (b. 1207). Daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint
- 1302 - St. Gertrude the Great dies (b. 1256).
- 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan dies (b. 1285). 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on Puerto Rico.
- 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola dies (b. 1463). Italian philosopher.
- 1502 - Atahualpa was born (d. 1533). Last emperor of the Inca.
- 1503 - Agnolo Bronzino was born (d. 1572). Italian painter.
- 1525 - Leonor of Portugal dies (b. 1458). Queen of Portugal.
- 1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies (b. 1516) and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
- 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole dies (b. 1500). Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon dies (b. 1518). Father of Henry IV of France.
- 1576 - Roque Gonzales was born (d. 1628). Paraguayan missionary.
- 1587 - Joost van den Vondel was born (d. 1679). Dutch poet.
- 1592 - King John III of Sweden dies (b. 1537).
- 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka dies (b. 1542). Japanese naval commander.
- 1612 - Dorgon was born (d. 1650). Manchu prince.
- 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim dies (b. 1594). Bavarian field marshal.
- 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes dies (b. 1602). Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France.
- 1648 - Thomas Ford dies (b. c. 1580). English composer.
- 1653 - Portugal: Morte de D. Joana, filha de D. João IV e D. Luísa Francisca de Gusmão.
- 1665 - John Earle dies. English bishop.
- 1668 - Joseph Alleine dies (b. 1634). English non-conformist preacher.
- 1681 - Pierre François le Courayer was born (d. 1776). French theologian.
- 1685 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye was born (d. 1749). French-Canadian trader and explorer.
- 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure dies (b. 1610). Duc de Montausier, French soldier.
- 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen dies (b. 1631). Dutch painter.
- 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck dies (b. 1653). Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
- 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert was born (d. 1783). French mathematician.
- 1720 - Calico Jack dies (b. 1682). English pirate.
- 1729 - Maria Antonietta of Spain was born (d. 1785). Queen of Sardinia.
- 1747 - Alain-René Lesage dies (b. 1668). French writer.
- 1749 – Nicolas Appert was born (d. 1841). French inventor.
- 1755 - King Louis XVIII of France was born (d. 1824).
- 1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald was born (d. 1840). French marshal.
- 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles dies (b. 1693). 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English statesman.
- 1776 - James Ferguson dies (b. 1710). Scottish astronomer.
- 1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
- 1780 - Bernardo Bellotto dies (b. 1720). Italian painter.
- 1789 - Charlotte, Duchess of Albany dies (b. 1753). Child of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
- 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius was born (d. 1868). German mathematician and astronomer.
- 1790 - Marechal Saldanha was born (d. 1876). Portuguese militar and politician.
- 1793 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake was born (d. 1865). English painter.
- 1794 - Jacques François Dugommier dies (b. 1738). French general.
- 1796 - Catherine II of Russia dies (b. 1729). Empress of Russia.
- 1799 - Titian Peale was born (d. 1885). American artist.
- 1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
- 1807 - O exército francês comandado pelo general Junot entra em Portugal, pela fronteira de Segura, na Beira Baixa, começando a Primeira Invasão Francesa.
- 1808 - David Zeisberger dies (b. 1721). Moravian missionary.
- 1811 - José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
- 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
- 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros was born (d. 1876). Austrian composer.
- 1818 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz dies (b. 1744). Queen consort of King George III.
- 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
- 1822 - Joaquim Machado de Castro dies. Portuguese sculptor.
- 1827 - The Delta Phi Fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
- 1827 - Petko Slavejkov was born (d. 1895). Bulgarian writer.
- 1831 - Manuel Antônio de Almeida was born (d. 1861). Brazilian journalist and writer.
- 1831 - Miguel Miramón was born (d. 1867). President of Mexico.
- 1835 - Andrew L. Harris was born (1915). American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio.
- 1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet dies (b. 1758). French painter.
- 1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst dies (b. 1794). German priest and miracle-worker.
- 1854 - Hubert Lyautey was born (d. 1934). French general.
- 1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- 1856 - 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.
- 1857 - Joseph Babiński was born (d. 1932). Polish-French neurologist.
- 1858 - Modified Julian Day zero.
- 1858 - Robert Owen dies (b. 1771). British father of the cooperative movement.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
- 1865 – James McCune Smith dies (b. 1813). African-American doctor and abolitionist.
- 1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre was born (d. 1912). American anarchist.
- 1866 - Lola Mora (Dolores Mora de la Vega) was born. Argentine sculptor.
- 1868 - Korbinian Brodmann was born (d. 1918). German neurologist.
- 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony, after 10 years of construction.
- 1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- 1875 - Theosophical Soociety is founded.
- 1875 - Gregório da Fonseca was born (d. 1934). Brazilian writer.
- 1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
- 1877 - Frank Calder was born (d. 1943). First NHL President.
- 1878 - First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
- 1878 - Grace Abbott was born (d. 1939). American social worker and activist.
- 1878 - Lise Meitner was born (d. 1968). Austrian physicist.
- 1886 - Premiere of the opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas.
- 1887 - Bernard Montgomery was born in London (d. 1976). British World War II commander.
- 1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi was born (d. 1972). Austrian politician.
- 1895 – Gregorio López y Fuentes was born (d. 1966). Mexican author.
- 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin was born (d. 1975). Russian philosopher.
- 1895 - Clube_de_Regatas_do_Flamengo is founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1895 – Gregorio López y Fuentes was born (d. 1966). Mexican author.
- 1895 – Mikhail Bakhtin was born (d. 1975). Russian philosopher.
- 1896 - Lev Vygotsky was born (d. 1934). Russian psychologist.
- 1897 - Frank Fay was born (d. 1961). American actor.
- 1897 - George Hendric Houghton dies (b. 1820). American Protestant Episcopal clergyman
- 1899 - Douglas Shearer was born (d. 1971). Canadian film sound engineer.
- 1901 – Lee Strasberg was born (d. 1982). Austrian director.
- 1901 - Walter Hallstein was born (d. 1982). German politician.
- 1963, with Jensen and Mayer, for extensive work on quantum mechanics.
- 1902 - U.S. troops intervene in Colombia.
- 1902 – Eugene Wigner was born (d. 1995). Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1902 - Hugh Price Hughes dies (b. 1847). Methodist Social Reformer.
- 1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). (NOTE: Later the Mensheviks became the majority party, meaning that technically the Mensheviks became the bolsheviks and the Bolsheviks mensheviks).
- 1904 - Isamu Noguchi was born (d. 1988). American sculptor.
- 1904 - U.S. troops intervene in Panama.
- 1904 - William Hastie was born (d. 1976). US judge and politician.
- 1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
- 1905 - Queen Astrid of Belgium was born (d. 1935).
- 1905 - Mischa Auer was born (d. 1967). American actor.
- 1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg dies (b. 1817)
- 1906 - Rollie Stiles was born. American baseball player.
- 1906 – Soichiro Honda was born (d. 1992). Japanese automobile pioneer.
- 1907 - Israel Regardie was born (d. 1985). Aleister Crowley's secretary.
- 1910 - Raquel de Queiroz was born (d. 4 Nov. 2003). Brazilian writer who was the first woman to have a chair in the Academia Brasileira de Letras
- 1910 - Ralph Johnstone dies killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado. American pioneer pilot.
- 1911 - The Omega Psi Phi fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard University.
- 1911 - Christian Fouchet was born (d. 1974). French diplomat.
- 1916 - Shelby Foote was born (d. 2005). American historian.
- 1917 - Auguste Rodin dies (b. 1840). French sculptor known for his bronze and marble figures, including The Thinker (1880) and The Kiss (1886), and considered one of the best portraitists in the history of sculpture.
- 1917 - Romeu Correia was born in Cacilhas (d. 12 Jun 1996). Portuguese writer.
- 1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom, proclaimed Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day), saying "that at the hour when the Armistice came into force, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, there may be for the brief space of two minutes a complete suspension of all our normal activities … so that in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead." The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.
- 1920 - Camillo Felgen was born (d. 2005). Luxembourgish singer.
- 1921 – Albert Bertelsen was born. Danish painter.
- 1921 - Pa Chay Vue dies. Hmong Nationalist.
- 1922 - Stanley Cohen was born. American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 1922 - Robert Comtesse dies (b. 1847). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
- 1923 – Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde
- 1923 - Bert Sutcliffe was born (d. 2001). New Zealand cricketer.
- 1923 – Hubertus Brandenburg was born (d. 2009). Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm.
- 1923 – Mike Garcia was born (d. 1986). American baseball player.
- 1925 – Charles Mackerras was born. Australian-born conductor.
- 1925 - Rock Hudson was born (d. 2 Oct 1985). American actor. McMillan and Wife, Giant, A Gathering of Eagles, Ice Station Zebra, Magnificent Obsession, Pillow Talk, Written on the Wind;
- 1927 - Robert Brown was born. American actor.
- 1927 – Robert Drasnin was born. American musician and composer.
- 1927 - Rogério Paulo was born. Portuguese actor.
- 1928 - Rance Howard was born. American actor.
- 1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai dies (b. 1865). Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter.
- 1929 - Pascual Ortiz Rubio wins election for President of Mexico for Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR). He would take the place on 5 Feb. 1930.
- 1929 - Norm Zauchin was born (d. 1999). American baseball player.
- 1929 - Herman Hollerith dies (b. 1860). American statistician.
- 1930 - Bob Mathias was born (d. 2006). American decathlete.
- 1932 - José Bento was born. Portuguese poet and translator of foreign poetry.
- 1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union.
- 1933 – Orlando Peña was born. Cuban baseball player.
- 1934 – Fenella Fielding was born. English actress.
- 1934 – James Inhofe was born. American politician, senior senator from Oklahoma.
- 1934 - Manuel de Castro was born in S. Sebastião dsa Pedreira, Lisbon (d. 12 Sep 1971). Portuguese poet.
- 1935 - Bobby Joe Conrad was born. American football player.
- 1935 - Toni Sailer was born. Austrian skier.
- 1936 - Dalia Rabikovich was born (d. 2005). Israeli poet.
- 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink dies (b. 1861). Austrian contralto.
- 1937 - Peter Cook was born (d. 1995). English comedian, satirist, and writer (Beyond the Fringe, The Wrong Box).
- 1937 - Jack Worrall dies (b. 1860). Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach.
- 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot was born. Canadian singer
- 1938 - Ante Trumbić dies (b. 1864). Croatian politician.
- 1938 - Alvaro Leon Cassuto was born in Oporto. Portuguese composer and conductor.
- 1939 - Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río assumes the presidency of Ecuador.
- 1939 - 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 17 declared International Student's day.
- 1939 - The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
- 1939 - Auberon Waugh was born (d. 2001). British author.
- 1940 - Luke Kelly was born. Irish folk music singer and banjo player.
- 1940 - Eric Gill dies (b. 1882). English sculptor and writer.
- 1940 - Raymond Pearl dies (b. 1879). American biologist.
- 1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan had plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable was ignored).
- 1942 - Martin Scorsese was born. American film director (Mean Streets, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, New York, New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Cape Fear)
- 1942 - Khang Khek Leu was born. Cambodian politician.
- 1942 – Martin Scorsese was born. American film director.
- 1942 - Ben Reitman dies (b. 1879). American anarchist, physician.
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton was born. American actress (American Gigolo, Lassiter, Paper Lion)
- 1944 - Danny DeVito was born. Emmy-award winning actor (Taxi [1980-81]; Twins, Batman Returns, Hoffa, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Terms of Endearment) and director (Throw Mama from the Train, The War of the Roses, Jack the Bear).
- 1944 - Gene Clark was born (d. 1991). American singer and songwriter (The Byrds).
- 1944 – Jim Boeheim was born. Hall of Fame basketball coach.
- 1944 - Lorne Michaels was born. Canadian, Emmy Award-winning writer (The Paul Simon Special [1977], Saturday Night Live [1976, 1977, 1989], Lily [1974]; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Three Amigos) and Emmy Award-winning producer (Saturday Night Live [1976, 1993, 2002]; Sunday Night, The New Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Stuart Saves His Family, Lassie, The Coneheads, Wayne’s World series, Three Amigos).
- 1944 – Rem Koolhaas was born. Dutch architect (House of Music /Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal).
- 1944 - Tom Seaver was born. American baseball player.
- 1945 - Elvin Hayes was born. American basketball playe.
- 1945 - Roland Joffé was born. Anglo-French film director.
- 1946 - Martin Barre was born. English rock musician (Jethro Tull).
- 1946 – Terry E. Branstad was born. Governor of Iowa.
- 1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observed the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century.
- 1947 – Inky Mark was born. Canadian politician.
- 1947 - Steven E. de Souza was born. American scriptwriter.
- 1947 - Victor Serge dies (b. 1890). Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian.
- 1948 – East Bay Ray was born. American musician.
- 1948 - Howard Dean was born. American politician.
- 1949 – John Boehner was born. American politician.
- 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
- 1950 - Roland Matthes was born. German athlete, one of the greatest backstrokers in the history of swimming.
- 1950 - Tom Walkinshaw was born. British businessman
- 1951 - Yaruch Bann was born. French poet.
- 1951 – Butch Davis was born. American football coach.
- 1951 - Dean Paul Martin was born (d. 1987). American singer and actor.
- 1951 – Stephen Root was born. American actor.
- 1952 - Ties Kruize was born. Dutch field hockey player.
- 1953 - Twenty die in Channel collision: Twenty Italian sailors die following a collision between two boats in the English Channel.
- 1953 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
- 1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt.
- 1954 - Mark Brandon Read was born. Australian criminal.
- 1955 - Dennis Maruk was born. Canadian hockey player.
- 1955 - Yolanda King was born (d. 2007). Daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1955 - James P. Johnson dies (b. 1894). American pianist and composer.
- 1957 – G-AOHP of British European Airways crashed at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause was a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
- 1957 - Debbie Thrower was born. BBC News Reader.
- 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was born. American actress.
- 1958 – Mort Cooper dies (b. 1913). Baseball player.
- 1959 – Terry Fenwick was born. English footballer.
- 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos dies (b. 1887). Brazilian composer.
- 1960 - Kirk Fogg was born. Host of Legends of the Hidden Temple.
- 1960 - Jonathan Ross was born. British television presenter.
- 1960 – Mandy Yachad was born. Former South African cricketer.
- 1960 - RuPaul was born. American actor.
- 1961 – Robert Stethem was born (d. 1985). U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847.
- 1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
- 1962 - Dédé Fortin was born (d. 2000). Quebec singer (Les Colocs).
- 1963 – Randy Black was born. Canadian drummer (Annihilator).
- 1964 – Mitch Williams was born. Americsan baseball player.
- 1964 - Ralph Garman was born. American actor and radio personality.
- 1965 - Amanda Brown was born. Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer.
- 1966 - Daisy Fuentes was born. Cuban model, TV host and actress.
- 1966 – Jeff Buckley was born (d. 1997). American musician.
- 1966 – Kate Ceberano was born. Australian singer.
- 1966 – Richard Fortus was born. American guitarist (Guns N' Roses).
- 1966 - Sophie Marceau was born. French actress.
- 1967 - 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." (two months later the Tet Offensive made him regret his words).
- 1968 - NBC preempts the final 1:05 minutes of a very close NFL football match between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders with Heidi, prompting an outrage amongst sport fans.
- 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
- 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death by the Greek Colonels' Junta.
- 1968 - Amber Michaels was born. German porn actress.
- 1968 – Sean Miller was born. American basketball coach.
- 1968 - Mervyn Peake dies (b. 1911). British writer and illustrator.
- 1969 - 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.
- 1969 - Jean-Michel Saive was born. Belgian table tennis player.
- 1969 - Kianna Dior was born. Korean-Canadian porn star
- 1969 – Ryotaro Okiayu was born. Japanese voice actor.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
- 1970 - 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.
- 1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
- 1970 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70.
- 1970 – Paul Allender was born. British guitarist (Cradle of Filth).
- 1972 – Joanne Goode was born. English badminton player.
- 1972 – Kimya Dawson was born. American singer.
- 1972 - Leonard Roberts was born. American actor.
- 1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
- 1973 - The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
- 1973 - Alexei Urmanov was born. Russian figure skater.
- 1973 – Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund was born. Swedish singer (Vintersorg).
- 1973 - Bernd Schneider was born. German football player.
- 1973 - Eli Marrero was born. American baseball player.
- 1973 – Mirra Alfassa dies (b. 1878). "The Mother", Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
- 1973 - The Mother dies (b. 1878). Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
- 1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
- 1974 – Berto Romero was born. Spanish humorist.
- 1974 - Leslie Bibb was born. American actress.
- 1975 - Lord Infamous was born. Rapper.
- 1976 - Brandon Call was born. American actor.
- 1976 – Diane Neal was born. American actress.
- 1977 – Paul Shepherd was born. English footballer.
- 1977 - Ryk Neethling was born. South African swimmer.
- 1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS.
- 1978 – Rachel McAdams was born. Canadian actress.
- 1978 - Reggie Wayne was born. American football player.
- 1978 - Zoë Bell was born. New Zealand actress.
- 1979 – Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra commissioned.
- 1979 - Matthew Spring was born. English footballer.
- 1979 - John Glascock dies. British bassist (Jethro Tull).
- 1980 - Brad Bradley was born. American professional wrestler
- 1980 - Isaac Hanson was born. American musician (Hanson).
- 1980 - Mercedes Martinez was born. Professional wrestler.
- 1981 - Sarah Harding was born. English singer (Girls Aloud).
- 1982 - Katie Feenstra was born. American basketball player.
- 1982 - Yusuf Pathan was born. Indian cricketer.
- 1982 - Eduard Tubin dies (b. 1905). Estonian composer.
- 1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan dies (b. 1924). Russian violinist.
- 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.
- 1983 - Christopher Paolini was born. Anerican novelist.
- 1983 – Harry Lloyd was born. English actor.
- 1983 – Nick Markakis was born. American baseball player.
- 1983 – Ryan Braun was born. American baseball player.
- 1983 – Scott Moore was born. American baseball player.
- 1983 – Trevor Crowe was born. American baseball player.
- 1983 - Yiannis Bourousis was born. Greek basketball player.
- 1984 - Park Han-byul was born. South Korean actress.
- 1985 - The first edition of Phrack is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence.
- 1985 - Luís Aguiar was born. Uruguayan football player.
- 1985 - Patrick Quinn was born. American personal trainer.
- 1986 - French car chief shot dead : George Besse (b. 1927) - the head of the Renault car company- is assassinated outside his home in Paris.
- 1986 - Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha (Nani) was born. Portuguese football player (Sporting and now Man. United)
- 1986 - Georges Besse dies (b. 1927). French automobile executive.
- 1987 – Kat DeLuna was born. American singer.
- 1987 - Paul Derringer dies (b. 1906). Baseball player.
- 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a peaceful student demonstration in Prague is severely beaten back by the communist riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeded on December 29).
- 1989 - Gus Farace dies murdered (b. 1960). American gangster.
- 1989 - João de Freitas Branco dies (b. 10 Jan. 1922). Portuguese musicologist, critic of music and mathematician.
- 1989 – Mary Giatra Lemou dies (b. 1915). Greek actress.
- 1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
- 1990 - Shanica Knowles was born. American actress.
- 1990 - Robert Hofstadter dies (b. 1915). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1992 - Darian Weiss was born. American actor.
- 1992 – Audre Lord dies (b. 1934). Caribbean-American writer, poet, and activist.
- 1993 – Gérard D. Lévesque dies (b. 1926). Canadian politician.
- 1993 - Mário Dionísio dies (b. 1916). Portuguese teacher and writer.
- 1994 - Raquel Castro was born. American actress.
- 1995 - Public Radio International's radio program This American Life broadcasts its first episode, "New Beginnings".
- 1995 - Alan Hull dies (b. 1945). English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne).
- 1996 - Emil Constantinescu wins presidential elections in Romania.
- 1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police killed the assailants).
- 1997 - Walter Moraes dies (b. ). Brazilian jurist.
- 1998 - Esther Rolle dies (b. 1920). American actress.
- 2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
- 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel dies (b. 1904). French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 2001 - Michael Karoli dies (b. 1948). German guitarist (Can).
- 2002 - Abba Eban dies (b. 1915). Israeli diplomat and politician.
- 2002 – Frank McCarthy dies (b. 1924). American artist and realist painter.
- 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated as Governor of California.
- 2003 - Arthur Conley dies (b. 1946). American singer.
- 2003 - Don Gibson dies (b. 1928). American singer and songwriter.
- 2004 - Kmart Corp. announced it was buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
- 2004 - Alexander Ragulin dies (b. 941). Russian hockey player.
- 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg dies (b. 1970). Swedish wrestler.
- 2004 - Samuel Karokikki dies (b. 1943). Nauru athlete.
- 2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes officialised in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
- 2005 - Marek Perepeczko dies (b. 1942). Polish actor.
- 2006 - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
- 2006 – Bo Schembechler dies (b. 1929). American football coach.
- 2006 - Ferenk Puskas dies at 79. Legendary Hungarian football player who was voted the 20th century's fourth best player by the International Federation for Football History and Statistics.
- 2006 – Flo Sandon's dies (b. 1924). Italian singer.
- 2006 – Ruth Brown dies (b. 1928). American blues singer.
- 2006 - Sottomayor Cardia dies. Portuguese politician, one of the founders of Portuguese Socialist Party (PS)
- 2008 – George Stephen Morrison dies (b. 1919). American admiral and father of The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison.
- 2008 – Pete Newell dies (b. 1915). American basketball coach.
- Feast day of St Elisabeth of Hungary, Gregory of Tours; Hilda of Whitby; Hugh of Lincoln (Roman Catholic)
- International Students Day: Commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague
- Greece – Polytechneio (Πολυτεχνείο) – Commemorates the 1973 student protests against the junta of the colonels.
- Czech Republic and Slovakia - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day commemorating the beginning of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989.
- Japan: Shogi Day (More accurately 17th day on Kannazuki; 17th November in modern calendar).
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