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November 17. November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 44 days remain until the end of the year.
November 17. 1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on Puerto Rico; 1790 – Birth of August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868) 1878 – Birth of Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968) 1902 – Birth of Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
November 17. Deir el-Bahari. 1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus. 1943 – World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on Sattelberg, New Guinea, against Japanese forces, initiating the Battle of Sattelberg. 1989 – Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres, starting the Disney ...
November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City ( 1783 ) Moraine Lake at Banff National Park. 1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, rather than Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots. 1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively ...
November 2: 1885 – Birth of Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972) 1894 – Birth of Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976) 1911 – Birth of Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995) 1944 – Death of Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889) 1957 – The Levelland UFO case in Levelland, Texas, generates ...
List of pirates. This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, river pirates, and others involved in piracy and piracy-related activities. This list includes both captains and prominent crew members. For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates .
2015 (Thursday) 2014 (Wednesday) September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 105 days remain until the end of the year.
John Cabot(c.1450–c.1500) was an Italian navigator who was the first European that sailed along to North American coast in 1497 since the Norse 500 years prior. Vasco da Gama(c.1460–1524). Famous Portuguese explorer who sailed to India in 1497–98. He accomplished finding a sea route to Asia which Europeans had been attempting to do for ...