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Suez Canal opens
Elizabethan Age begins
My Lai trial begins
1st Cavalry unit ambushed in the Ia Drang Valley
The Heidi Bowl
Il Bronzino Florentine painter (Eleanor de Toledo & her Son)
Roque Gonzales Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
Johan van Beverwijck Dutch physicianwriter (Treasure of Health)
Pierre Franois le Courayer French theologian (d. 1776)
Pierre Gaultier French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
Noel-Nicolas Coypel French paintercartoonist
Salomeja Neris [S Bacinskaite-Buciene] Latvian poet
Maria Antonietta of Spain queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
Nicolas Appert French inventor of airtight food preservation (food canning bouillon tablet) born in Chlons-en-Champagne France (d. 1841)
tienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald French marshal (d. 1840)
August Ferdinand Mbius German mathematician (d. 1868)
John Barrien Montgomery Commander (Union Navy) (d. 1873)
Titian Ramsey Peale American artistnaturalist (American Ornithology)
Joseph Finegan Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1885)
August W Ambros Austria musicologist (History of Music)
John McArthur Scottish-American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Erskine Scotland (d. 1906)
Stephen Hinsdale Weed American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Potsdam New York (d. 1863)
David Capriles director of psychiatry of Monte Christo Curacao
Louis HG Lyautey French minister of Defense (1916-17)
John S Plaskett Canadian astronomer (Plasketts twins)
Voltairine de Cleyre American anarchist (d. 1912)
Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck mayor (Brussels Belgium)
Frank Calder the first NHL President (d. 1943)
Grace Abbott Grand Island Neb social worker (US Children Bureau)
Thomas Fermor-Hesketh 1st Baron Hesketh British peer soldier and politician
Harold Baumgartner cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1913)
Henry de Man Belgian sociologistchairman (Belgian Workers Party)
Crane Wilbur American director and writer (Bat Canon City Yellow Cargo) born in Athens New York (d. 1973)
Ariantje Jeanne Leg actress (It Vijgeblaadje It Hippie) born (d. 1973)
Jack Cusack pro football pioneer (Canton Bulldogs)
Jean Del Val [Gautier] French actor (Sainted Devil Flying Deuces)
Max Deutsch Austrian-French composer born in Vienna (d. 1982)
Eelco van Kleffens minister of Foreign affairs (1939-46)diplomat
Nov 17 1913 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Nov 17 1918 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland CPH
Nov 17 1926 NHLs Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game beat Tor St Pats 4-1