Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 17

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  The Djeser-Djeseru at the Deir el-Bahri (Temple of Hatshepsut)
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  Queen Elizabeth I of England
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  Queen Elizabeth I of England
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  Douglas Engelbart's first computer mouse
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  Suez Canal
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  The Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir-el-Bahari
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  Eulsa Treaty
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  Deir el-Bahari
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  U.S. Capitol Building in 1800

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
International Students' Day	no footnotes
794 – Emperor Kanmu of Japan moved his residence from Nara to Kyoto, beginning the Heian period.	unreferenced section
1405 – The Sultanate of Sulu was established on the Sulu Archipelago off the coast of Mindanao in the Philippines.	multiple issues
1800 – The U.S. Congress convened in Washington, D.C. for the first time in the partially completed Capitol Building.	Too much uncited
1839 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, premiered at La Scala in Milan.	Lots of cn
1869 – The Suez Canal opened, allowing shipping to travel between Europe and Asia via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.	refimprove section
1894 – H. H. Holmes (pictured), one of the first modern serial killers, was arrested in Boston after killing at least nine people.	unreliable sources and dubious uncited blurb; see [1]
1905 – Influenced by the result of the Russo-Japanese War, the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire signed the Eulsa Treaty, effectively depriving Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty.	refimprove
1962 – John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicated Dulles International Airport, one of three major airports in the Baltimore–Washington, D.C. area.	Lots of cn
1969 – Cold War: Representatives from the Soviet Union and the United States met in Helsinki to begin the [[Strategic Arms Limitation Talks|Template:Nowrap]] negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.	refimprove
1970 – The Soviet Union's [[Lunokhod 1|Template:Nowrap]] landed on the Moon to become the first roving remote-controlled robot to operate on another celestial body.	unreferenced section
1970 – American inventor Douglas Engelbart received the patent for the first computer mouse.	cleanup section, expansion, refimprove section
1973 – Students at the Athens Polytechnic conclude a strike against the Greek junta, which lasted four days.	Date not cited
1978 – The television show Star Wars Holiday Special was broadcast in the United States and became notorious for its extremely negative reception.	Unref section
1989 – Police quelled a student demonstration in Prague, sparking the Velvet Revolution aimed at overthrowing the Czechoslovakian communist government.	multiple issues
1993 – General Sani Abacha ousted Ernest Shonekan to become chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria.	insufficient context
2012 – In Manfalut, Egypt, a school bus was hit by a train, killing at least 50 children.	Orange "contemporary sources" banner

Eligible

• 1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus.
• 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and of Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era.
• 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: French forces won the Battle of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the Austrians' line of retreat.
• 1941 – World War II: Hjalmar Siilasvuo ordered Finnish forces to halt their assault against Soviet forces near Salla, concluding Operation Arctic Fox.
• 1968 – NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
• 1989 – Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres, beginning the Disney Renaissance.
• 1997 – Sixty-two people were killed by Islamist terrorists outside Deir el-Bahari (temple pictured) in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
• 2009 – Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked, and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
• 2013 – An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indiana.

• Born/died: | Chen Jinfeng |d|935| Nikephoros Melissenos |d|1104| Agnes of Jesus |b|1602| Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain |b|1729| Nicolas Appert |b|1749| Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz |d|1818| Grace Abbott |b|1878| Bernard Montgomery |b|1887| Rosemary Edna Sinclair |b|1936| Petra Burka |b|1946| Cyril Ramaphosa |b|1952| Robert Hofstadter |d|1990|

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• 1592 – Sigismund III Vasa, who was already King of Poland, succeeded his father [[John III of Sweden|Template:Nowrap]] as King of Sweden.
• 1921 – Rioting broke out in Bombay, India, during the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, leading to at least 58 deaths.
• 1943 – World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on Sattelberg, New Guinea, against Japanese forces, initiating the Battle of Sattelberg.
• 1950 – The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of 15.
• 2013 – Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all 50 people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.