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Important Dates in November:.
The Seventeenth
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Politico-Religious Sportile Stomp
“..and it don’t stop”

1558—Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister, Elizabeth I of England.
1720—Pirate captain Calico Jack Rackam and his entire crew, except Anne Bonny and Mary Read, are hanged.
1777—Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union submitted to the states for ratification.
1800—The United States Capital Building in Washington, DC, holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
1820—Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
1869—In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
1903—The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for “majority”) and Mensheviks (Russian for “minority”).
1950—Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, enthroned as Tibet’s head of state at the age of fifteen.
1957—Vanxnativity, Morristown, N.J.
1968—NBC preempts the final 1:05 minutes of a very close NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders with Heidi, prompting an outrange amongst sports fans. Also, Alexandros Panagoulis condemned to death by the Greek Colonels’ Junta.
1969—The SALT I negotiations between the USSR and US begin in Helsinki.
1973—Student uprising against the regime in Greece spawns “November 17,” Greece’s answer to the Bader Meinhof gang. Also, in Orlando, Florida, President Richard M. tells Associated Press editors, “I am not a crook.”
1983—Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded in Chiapas, one of the poorest states in Mexico.
1989—Velvet Revolution begins in Czechoslovakia—Student demonstration in Prague is quelled by the police, sparking an uprising aimed at overthrowing the government.
2000—Alberto Fujimori removed from office as president of Peru.
2003—Arnold Schwarzenegger is sworn in as Governor of California.
2006—Ségolèn Royal wins the Socialist Party’s nomination for president in France–crushes male rivals to become the first woman to represent a major party in a presidential election there. Meanwhile, Sony launches Playstation 3 in the U.S.

Some birthdays

1937—Peter Cook
1942—Martin Scorsese
1943–Lauren Hutton
1944—Rem Koolhaas, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Tom Seaver
1957—Vanx
1966—Daisy Fuentes

Death

1720—Calico Jack