November 17<\/p>\n
1558 \u2013 Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half sister Elizabeth I of England.<\/p>\n
1800 \u2013Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
1820 \u2013 Commanding his sloop Hero<\/em>, 21 year old Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica.<\/p>\n 1831 \u2013 The nations of Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia.<\/p>\n 1856 \u2013 On the Sonoita River in present day southern Arizona, the U. S. Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control the new lands acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.<\/p>\n 1858 \u2013 The city of Denver, Colorado is founded.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 During the Civil War, Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.<\/p>\n 1869 \u2013 The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is opened for sea traffic.<\/p>\n 1896 \u2013 The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, begins play at Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park Casino.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 The Russian\u00a0 (Communist)\u00a0Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks “majority” and Mensheviks “minority”.<\/p>\n 1910 \u2013 Piloting a damaged and improperly repaired Wright Model B<\/em> aircraft, Ralph Johnstone becomes the first American to die in a plane crash.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain while working under William Shockley at Bell Labs, construct the first working transistor<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 Lhamo Dondrub is named Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 President Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 In Orlando, Florida, President Nixon announces to a group of Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook.”<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628, a Boeing 747 cargo jet, report sighting multiple UFOs following the aircraft while flying over Alaska.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 The House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger takes office as the governor of California on the recall of governor Gray Davis.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 A late season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest with Illinois and Indiana the most affected states. Over 70\u00a0 tornadoes touch down in an 11 hour time period, killing 8 people, injuring over 190 more and causing over $1.6 billion in damage.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55 year old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 17 1558 \u2013 Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half sister Elizabeth I of England. 1800 \u2013Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C. 1820 \u2013 Commanding his sloop Hero, 21 year old Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. 1831 \u2013 The nations of Ecuador … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61868"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97799,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61868\/revisions\/97799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}