November 17
1558 - Queen Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-sister Queen Mary, beginning a 44-year reign.
1800 - Congress convened in Washington, D.C. for the first time in the partially-completed Capitol building.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
1889 - The Union Pacific Railroad Co. began direct, daily railroad service between Chicago and Portland, Oregon, as well as Chicago and San Francisco.
1962 - Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. was dedicated.
1969 - The first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union opened in Helsinki, Finland.
1970 - The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon.
1973 - President Richard Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Florida, that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
1979 - Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 Back and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1989 - The "Velvet Revolution" began, which led to the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia.
1997 - Six militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 people, most of them foreign tourists. The attackers were killed by police.
2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.
2003 - John Allen Muhammad was convicted of two counts of capital murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings. (He was later sentenced to death and executed.)
2010 - A hand-count of votes affirmed the re-election of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the first senate candidate in over 50 years to win a write-in campaign.
2010 - The first Guantanamo detainee to face civilian trial, Ahmed Ghailani, was convicted by federal jury in New York on one charge of conspiracy related to 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Ghailani's native Tanzania.
2011 - Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. to mark two months since the movement’s birth and signal they weren’t ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police.
2016 - President-elect Donald Trump, at Trump Tower in New York, held his first meeting with a world leader, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and received advice from former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
2018 - Argentina’s navy announced that searchers had found a submarine that disappeared a year earlier with 44 crewmen aboard; the government said it would be unable to recover the vessel.
2020 - President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top election security official, Christopher Krebs, who had refuted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote.
2020 - U.S. regulators allowed emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that could be performed entirely at home and delivered results in 30 minutes.
Birthdays
27 - Raquel Castro (actress)
33 - Reid Perry (musician)
33 - Justin Cooper (actor)
38 - Ryan Braun (baseball player)
43 - Rachel McAdams (actress)
45 - Brandon Call (actor)
48 - Leslie Bibb (actress)
49 - Leonard Roberts (actor)
50 - David Ramsey (actor)
55 - Daisy Fuentes (actress/model)
55 - Sophie Marceau (actress)
58 - Dylan Walsh (actor)
61 - RuPaul (entertainer)
62 - William Moses (actor)
63 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (actress)
70 - Stephen Root (actor)
77 - Lorne Michaels (TV producer)
77 - Danny DeVito (actor)
78 - Lauren Hutton (actress)
79 - Martin Scorsese (director)
83 - Gordon Lightfoot (singer)
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Today in Sports History - November 17
1894 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-6.
1898 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 23-10.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-0.
1906 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 8-6.
1917 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 13-3.
1923 - Nebraska defeats Iowa State 26-14.
1926 - The Chicago Black Hawks played their first game in the NHL, defeating the Toronto St. Patrick's 4-1.
1928 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh play to a 0-0 tie.
1934 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 3-0.
1940 - The Green Bay Packers became the first NFL team to travel by plane.
1945 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 53-0.
1951 - Colorado defeats Nebraska 36-14.
1956 - Baylor defeats Nebraska 26-7.
1956 - Syracuse fullback Jim Brown scores an NCAA record 43 points in a game against Colgate.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 14-0.
1968 - The infamous "Heidi Bowl" incident occurred as NBC cut away from its football coverage to begin airing the movie "Heidi" as schedule. In the missing few minutes, the Oakland Raiders came from behind, scoring two touchdowns to defeat the New York Jets, 43-32.
1973 - #10 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 50-21.
1979 - #3 Nebraska defeats Iowa State 34-3.
1982 - The NFL reduced its 16-game season to nine as a result of a 57-day players' strike.
1984 - #4 Oklahoma defeats #1 Nebraska 17-7.
1991 - Mike Utley (Detroit Lions) suffered a spinal injury in a game against Los Angeles that left him paralyzed from the chest down.
1997 - Mario Lemieux was voted into the NHL Hall of Fame.
2003 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the first MLB player to win six National League MVP awards.
2012 - #16 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 36-14.
2013 - Jimmie Johnson wins the NASCAR Sprint Cup for the sixth time.
2018 - Nebraska defeats Michigan State 9-6.
1558 - Queen Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-sister Queen Mary, beginning a 44-year reign.
1800 - Congress convened in Washington, D.C. for the first time in the partially-completed Capitol building.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
1889 - The Union Pacific Railroad Co. began direct, daily railroad service between Chicago and Portland, Oregon, as well as Chicago and San Francisco.
1962 - Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. was dedicated.
1969 - The first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union opened in Helsinki, Finland.
1970 - The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon.
1973 - President Richard Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Florida, that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
1979 - Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 Back and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1989 - The "Velvet Revolution" began, which led to the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia.
1997 - Six militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 people, most of them foreign tourists. The attackers were killed by police.
2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.
2003 - John Allen Muhammad was convicted of two counts of capital murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings. (He was later sentenced to death and executed.)
2010 - A hand-count of votes affirmed the re-election of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the first senate candidate in over 50 years to win a write-in campaign.
2010 - The first Guantanamo detainee to face civilian trial, Ahmed Ghailani, was convicted by federal jury in New York on one charge of conspiracy related to 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Ghailani's native Tanzania.
2011 - Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. to mark two months since the movement’s birth and signal they weren’t ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police.
2016 - President-elect Donald Trump, at Trump Tower in New York, held his first meeting with a world leader, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and received advice from former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
2018 - Argentina’s navy announced that searchers had found a submarine that disappeared a year earlier with 44 crewmen aboard; the government said it would be unable to recover the vessel.
2020 - President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top election security official, Christopher Krebs, who had refuted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote.
2020 - U.S. regulators allowed emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that could be performed entirely at home and delivered results in 30 minutes.
Birthdays
27 - Raquel Castro (actress)
33 - Reid Perry (musician)
33 - Justin Cooper (actor)
38 - Ryan Braun (baseball player)
43 - Rachel McAdams (actress)
45 - Brandon Call (actor)
48 - Leslie Bibb (actress)
49 - Leonard Roberts (actor)
50 - David Ramsey (actor)
55 - Daisy Fuentes (actress/model)
55 - Sophie Marceau (actress)
58 - Dylan Walsh (actor)
61 - RuPaul (entertainer)
62 - William Moses (actor)
63 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (actress)
70 - Stephen Root (actor)
77 - Lorne Michaels (TV producer)
77 - Danny DeVito (actor)
78 - Lauren Hutton (actress)
79 - Martin Scorsese (director)
83 - Gordon Lightfoot (singer)
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Today in Sports History - November 17
1894 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-6.
1898 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 23-10.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-0.
1906 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 8-6.
1917 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 13-3.
1923 - Nebraska defeats Iowa State 26-14.
1926 - The Chicago Black Hawks played their first game in the NHL, defeating the Toronto St. Patrick's 4-1.
1928 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh play to a 0-0 tie.
1934 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 3-0.
1940 - The Green Bay Packers became the first NFL team to travel by plane.
1945 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 53-0.
1951 - Colorado defeats Nebraska 36-14.
1956 - Baylor defeats Nebraska 26-7.
1956 - Syracuse fullback Jim Brown scores an NCAA record 43 points in a game against Colgate.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 14-0.
1968 - The infamous "Heidi Bowl" incident occurred as NBC cut away from its football coverage to begin airing the movie "Heidi" as schedule. In the missing few minutes, the Oakland Raiders came from behind, scoring two touchdowns to defeat the New York Jets, 43-32.
1973 - #10 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 50-21.
1979 - #3 Nebraska defeats Iowa State 34-3.
1982 - The NFL reduced its 16-game season to nine as a result of a 57-day players' strike.
1984 - #4 Oklahoma defeats #1 Nebraska 17-7.
1991 - Mike Utley (Detroit Lions) suffered a spinal injury in a game against Los Angeles that left him paralyzed from the chest down.
1997 - Mario Lemieux was voted into the NHL Hall of Fame.
2003 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the first MLB player to win six National League MVP awards.
2012 - #16 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 36-14.
2013 - Jimmie Johnson wins the NASCAR Sprint Cup for the sixth time.
2018 - Nebraska defeats Michigan State 9-6.
