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November 17. November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 44 days remain until the end of the year.
November 17. 1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on Puerto Rico; 1790 – Birth of August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868) 1878 – Birth of Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968) 1902 – Birth of Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
November 17. Deir el-Bahari. 1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus. 1943 – World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on Sattelberg, New Guinea, against Japanese forces, initiating the Battle of Sattelberg. 1989 – Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres, starting the Disney ...
November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City ( 1783 ) Moraine Lake at Banff National Park. 1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, rather than Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots. 1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively ...
November 2: 1885 – Birth of Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972) 1894 – Birth of Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976) 1911 – Birth of Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995) 1944 – Death of Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889) 1957 – The Levelland UFO case in Levelland, Texas, generates ...
Rita R. Colwell, American environmental microbiologist who studied the ecology of cholera, former director of the National Science Foundation and president of the American Society for Microbiology. Wayne Nicholson, American biologist based on microbiology and cell biology. Yossef Av-Gay (born 1961), Israeli microbiologist and researcher.
2015 (Thursday) 2014 (Wednesday) September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 105 days remain until the end of the year.
2014 (Friday) October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 75 days remain until the end of the year.