17th November anniversaries

• Birth
  • 9
  • Italy
  • "Birth of Vespasian, Emperor of the Roman Empire (6979 AD)"
  • 1807
  • Birth of Henry Philpott controversial Bishop of Worcester.
• event
  • 1292
  • Great Britain
  • "King Edward I awards Scottish crown to John Baliol ('Toom Tabard', or 'empty coat')"
  • 1855
  • Livingstone finds the Victoria Falls
  • 1869
  • Egypt
  • Suez Canal opens more
  • 1959
  • The De Beers diamond company in South Africa announced that they had produced the worlds first synthetic industrial diamonds
  • 1969
  • "The first strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) between the USA and the USSR opened in Helsinki, Finland"
  • 1989
  • Thousands of protesters marched through Prague demanding an end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Riot police crushed the revolt
• Death
  • 1558
  • Great Britain
  • Queen Mary Tudor of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth – Protestantism restored in England more
  • 1708
  • "Death of Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch artist ."
  • 1858
  • "Death of Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer, one of the founders of socialism and the cooperative movement."
  • 1929
  • "Death of Herman Hollerith, American statistician, inventor of the tabulating machine, an early mechanical computer that used punched cards and was an important precursor to modern electronic computers"
  • 1959
  • "Death of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer"
  • 1971
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Dame Gladys Cooper, Actress" more
  • 1998
  • "Death of Esther Rolle, American actress ."