It happened on this day, November 17
Events:
1292 – John Balliol comes to the throne in Scotland.
1511 – Spain and England form an alliance against France.
1558 – Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII, takes over as ruler of England, succeeding her half-sister Mary I, under the name Elizabeth I.
1808 – Ottoman Janissary forces revolt against Sultan Mahmud II after attempting to eliminate them.
1809 – The British attack the Qawasim stronghold in Ras Al Khaimah and the second British campaign begins.
1903 – The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups: the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.
1930 – The British House of Commons witnesses a debate on Palestine regarding how the government exercises its mandate over it.
1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain establish the basic principles of the transistor, a key element of the electronic revolution of the 20th century.
1958 – Start of the revolution of General Ibrahim Abboud in Sudan.
1969 – Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki for the first round of negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides during the Cold War.
1970 – Douglas Engelbert receives a patent for the computer mouse.
1975 – Morocco's King Hassan II announces his intention to organize popular protests in Western Sahara to liberate it after the International Court of Justice declares it Moroccan territory.
1987 – Israeli authorities decide to expel preacher Abdel Aziz Odeh.
1989 – The Velvet Revolution began in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. It began with student protests in Prague that were put down by riot police, then turned into an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government.
1997 – What was known as the Luxor massacre occurred when six men disguised as security officers attacked a group of tourists, armed with guns and knives, and killed 58 tourists. Following this attack, the Minister of the Interior, General Hassan Al-Alfi, resigned.
1998 – Completion of the Wye River Agreement, which stipulated the Israeli withdrawal from certain areas of the West Bank, the fight against terrorism and the consolidation of economic relations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
2003 – Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of California.
2010 – Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud appoints his son, Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, as Minister of State, Member of the Council of Ministers and Chief of the National Guard, succeeding him as head . of the Guard, which he has held since 1963.
2012 – At least 50 students died in a train accident near Manfalut in Egypt.
2013 – 50 people were killed when a Boeing plane crashed as it landed at Kazan airport, Tatarstan.
2019 – Saudi Aramco offers part of its shares for public subscription on the Saudi financial market.
✴️ The first known case of COVID-19 was traced to a 55-year-old man who visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.
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Births:
9 – Emperor Vespasian, ninth Roman emperor.
1503 – Bronzino, Italian painter.
1587 – Van den Vondel, Dutch poet and playwright.
1749 – Nicolas Appert, French cook and inventor of canning.
1755 – Louis XVIII, king of France.
1854 – Herbert Lyautey, French soldier.
1902 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963.
1905 – Firdous Hassan, Egyptian actress.
** Queen Astrid, wife of King Leopold III of Belgium.
1917 – Sheikh Ahmed Al-Sharbasi, Egyptian religious scholar.
1922 – Stanley Cohen, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1986.
1925 – Nagwa Salem, Egyptian actress.
1933 – Zaghloul Al-Najjar, Egyptian geologist and religious thinker.
1938 – Princess Ferial, daughter of Farouk I, king of Egypt.
1942 – Martin Scorsese, American director.
** Abdullah Hussein Mansour, Palestinian-Jordanian poet.
1944 – Danny DeVito, American actor.
(1945-Abdelmadjid Tebboune president of the Democratic and Popular Algerian Republic
1948 – Ahmed Musaed, Kuwaiti actor.
1949 – Nguyen Tan Duc, Prime Minister of Vietnam.
** John Boehner, American politician.
1961 – Istiqlal Ahmed, Bahraini actress of Iraqi origin.
1964 – Susan Rice, American diplomat.
1965 – Abdul Mohsen Al-Nimr, Saudi actor.
1966 – Sophie Marceau, French actress.
1969 – Ryutaro Ukiyo, Japanese voice actor.
1972 – Leonard Roberts, American actor.
1973 – Bernd Schneider, German footballer.
1974 – Leslie Bibb, American actress. 1978 – Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress.
1981 – Fatima Al-Safi, Kuwaiti actress.
1986 – Nani, Portuguese footballer.
1990 – Shaniqua Knowles, American actress.
1995 – Israa Al-Aseel, Iraqi singer.
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Death:
375 – Valentinian I, Roman emperor.
474 – Leo II, Byzantine emperor.
641 – Emperor Gome, 34th emperor of Japan.
1558 – Queen Mary I, Queen of England.
** Reginald Pole, English Catholic cardinal.
1597 – Abu Al-Surur Al-Siddiqi, Egyptian jurist and mystic.
1632 – Gottfried Heinrich, German soldier.
1768 – Thomas Balham Halls, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1884 – Thomas Wright, Scottish archaeologist.
1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.
1927 – Sultan Youssef bin Al-Hassan, twentieth sultan of Morocco.
1929 – Herman Hollerith, American statistician.
1949 – Ali Mahmoud Taha, Egyptian poet.
1967 – Amjad Al-Zahawi, Iraqi religious scholar, jurist and preacher.
1968 – Ebrahim Pour-Daoud, Iranian jurist, translator, linguist, academic and poet.
1987 – Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Egyptian actor.
1988 – Talaat Yaqoub, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Front.
1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961.
2000 – Louis Nel, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970.
2002 – Abba Eban, Israeli politician.
2006 – Ferenc Puskas, Hungarian footballer and coach.
2008 – Hager Hamdy, Egyptian actress.
2013 – Doris Lessing, British author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
** Sid Field, American writer and screenwriting teacher.
** Mohamed Mabrouk, Egyptian officer in the national security sector and responsible for the Muslim Brotherhood file.
** Doris Lessing, British writer and novelist.
2019 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician.
2021 – Zuhair Ramadan, Syrian actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ International Students’ Day.
⬅️ Freedom Day in Slovakia.
⬅️ Shogi Festival in Japan.
⬅️ World Premature Birth Day
