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Today In History - November 17 |
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1800 John Adams is the first President to move into the White House… |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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331 Flavius Claudius Julianus 1503 Il Bronzino 1594 Johan van Beverwijck 1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel 1755 Louis XVIII 1771 Jonathan Huntington 1773 Mihaly Csokonai Vitez 1787 Michele Carafa 1790 August Ferdinand Mobius 1794 John Barrien Montgomery 1799 Titian Ramsey Peale 1808 Alberich Zwyssig 1814 Joseph Finegan 1816 August W. Ambros 1826 John McArthur 1834 Stephen Hinsdale Weed 1837 David Capriles 1837 Willem Coenen 1859 Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup 1865 John S. Plaskett 1876 Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck 1878 Grace Abbott 1879 Gerardus H. de Haas 1881 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh 1883 Harold Baumgartner 1885 Henry de Man 1886 Crane Wilbur 1887 Bernard L. Montgomery 1888 Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg 1890 Jack Cusack 1891 Guido Pannain 1891 Jean Del Val 1892 Max Deutsch 1894 Eelco van Kleffens 1894 Sophocles Venizelos 1897 Ed Baker 1897 Frank Fay 1897 Sara Haden 1899 Roger Vitrac 1900 Marcel Dalio 1901 Joyce Wethered 1901 Lee Strasberg 1901 Max Zehnder 1901 Raymond Chevreuille 1901 Walter Hallstein 1902 Eugene Paul Wigner 1902 Eugene Wigner 1902 Lee Strasberg 1903 Joseph Kaminski 1904 Isamu Noguchi 1905 Arthur Chipperfield 1905 Astrid Bernadotte 1905 Mischa Auer 1906 Betty Bronson 1906 Soichiro Honda 1909 Gerald Savory 1911 Charles Walters 1911 Nobutaka Shikanai 1911 William Tannen 1914 Archie Campbell 1916 Winston Hudson 1917 Jack Lescoulie 1919 Hershy Kay 1919 Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord 1922 Emile Noel 1923 Bert Sutcliffe 1925 Rock Hudson 1927 Ellis Hillman 1928 Colin McDonald 1929 Edgar White 1929 Sumner White 1930 Bob Mathias 1930 Brian Joseph Lenihan 1930 David Werner Amram 1934 James Inhofe 1934 James M. Inhofe 1935 Anton Sailer 1937 Peter Edward Cook 1938 Alvaro Leon Cassuto 1938 Gordon Lightfoot 1938 Peter Snell 1938 Thomas Black 1941 Gene Clark 1941 Peter Hoagland 1942 Annemarie Oster 1942 Bob Gaudio 1942 Martin Scorsese 1943 Lauren Hutton 1944 Danny DeVito 1944 Eugene Clarke 1944 Lorne Michaels 1944 Tom Seaver 1945 Elvin Hayes 1945 Jeremy Hanley 1945 Roland Joffe 1946 Martin Barre 1947 Rod Clements 1948 Howard Dean 1948 Jaime Huelamo 1949 John Boehner 1949 Thomas Lionel Hill 1950 Roland Matthes 1951 Dean Paul Martin 1953 Jilly Johnson 1955 Bill McCreary 1955 Peter Cox 1955 Yolanda King 1957 Daisy Fuentes 1958 Allison Finney 1958 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 1959 William R. Moses 1960 Jonathan Ross 1960 RuPaul 1961 Merete Van Kemp 1962 Eric Olson 1963 Marco T. Dawson 1963 Pedro Luis Estrada 1964 Marina Tcherkasova 1964 Michelle Knox-Zaloom 1965 Grant Connell 1965 Paul Sorrento 1965 Raffaella Reggi 1965 Rob Koll 1965 Winthrop Graham 1966 Daisy Fuentes 1966 Jeff Nelson 1966 Sophie Marceau 1967 Howard Griffith 1967 Ronnie Devoe 1967 Sheila Lussier 1968 Cacho Conde 1969 Takako Inque 1970 Chris Tamer 1970 Max Huiberts 1971 Audra Keller 1972 Ron Lewis 1973 Scott Rehberg 1974 Abbygale Williamson Arenas 1974 Brandon Call 1974 Marc Edwards 1976 Dafne Zeledon 1980 Isaac Hanson 1988 Justin Cooper |
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On This Date in History |
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1278 680 Jews are arrested and 293 are hanged in England for counterfeiting coins 1511 England and Spain sign the anti-French covenant 1555 William of Orange becomes a member of Council of State 1558 Elizabeth I ascends the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary 1734 John Zenger is arrested for libel against New York colonial governor 1785 The Church of England organizes in New England 1796 The Battle of Arcole 1800 Congress held its first session in Washington D.C. 1800 John Adams is the first President to move into the White House 1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer is captured in Boston 1842 Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced in London 1853 Street signs are authorized at San Francisco intersections 1858 The origin of the Modified Julian Period 1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns 1863 Lincoln begins the first draft of his Gettysburg Address 1866 Opera "Mignon" is produced in Paris 1869 Englishman James Moore wins the first bicycle race 1869 The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean and Red seas 1874 Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire and sinks off Auckland, NZ 1875 The American Theosophical Society is founded by 1877 Gilbert & Sullivans operetta "Sorcerer" premieres in London 1884 Police arrest John L. Sullivan in the 2nd round for being "cruel" 1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service from Chicago 1894 The Daily Racing Form founded 1904 George Cohan's musical "Little Johnny Jones," premieres in New York City 1913 The first U.S. dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Ct 1913 The Panama Canal opens 1914 The U.S. declares Panama Canal Zone neutral 1917 Lenin defended the "temporary" removal of freedom of the press 1918 Social Democratic Party becomes Communist Party Holland 1922 Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on a British warship 1927 A tornado hits Washington D.C. 1928 The Boston Garden officially opens 1928 Notre Dame lost a football game after nearly 25 years 1929 Pascual Ortiz Rubio is elected president of Mexico 1929 Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of the Politburo 1932 German government of von Papen resigns 1933 The U.S. recognizes U.S.S.R. and opens trade 1934 Lyndon B. Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor 1936 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy become an overnight success on radio 1937 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany 1938 Italy passes its own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws 1939 A German U-boat torpedoes a passenger ship 1945 New world air speed record: 606 mph is set 1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize the steel industry 1953 St. Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club, Inc. 1956 The U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test 1959 De Beers firm of South Africa announces a synthetic diamond 1959 William Shea shows proposed New York City stadium with a transparent roof 1960 New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada 1962 President Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport 1963 Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational 1964 British Labour Party installs a weapon embargo against South Africa 1965 General Meeting of the United Nations refuses admittance of China 1965 William Eckert is unanimously elected the Commissioner of Baseball 1966 Leonids meteor shower hits its peak: 150,000+ per hour 1967 The Beatles Ltd and Apple Music Ltd swap names 1967 French author Regis Debray is sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia 1967 Surveyor 6 becomes first man-made object to lift off of the Moon 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational 1969 SALT discussions open in Helsinki, Finland 1970 British newspaper The Sun puts its first pinup girl on pg 3: Stephanie Rahn 1970 Russia lands the Lunokhod 1, an unmanned remote-controlled vehicle, on the Moon 1972 Juan Peron returns to Argentina 1973 Greek regime attacks students with tanks: hundreds of people are killed 1973 President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" 1973 Teri Garr plays the role of a stripper on "The Nurse" 1974 Bonnie Bryant wins the Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic 1974 The Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms 1976 The China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1977 Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts an invitation to visit Israel 1977 Miss World Contest: Miss U.K. wears a $9,500 platinum bikini 1979 Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages 1982 Dale Murphy wins NL MVP 1983 Harm Wiersma retains his checkers world championship 1983 The Philadelphia Flyers win 13th straight NHL game 1988 Linda Petursdottir of Iceland is crowned the 38th Miss World 1989 Bret Saberhagen signs a record $2,966,667 per year Kansas City Royal contract 1991 Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralyzed in a game against the Los Angeles Rams 1991 The first TV condom ad aired 1992 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration showing General Motors trucks blowing up on impact, it's later revealed that NBC rigged the tests 1992 Erling Kagge begins a successful exploration at the South Pole 993 The U.S. House of Representatives approve NAFTA 1994 The third German government of Kohl forms 1994 The Irish government of Reynolds resigns 1996 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational 1997 Mario Lemieux enters the NHL Hall of Fame |
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