The November 17th is the 321e Jour of the Année (322e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 44 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

XXe century

  • 1903 : The Dahomey (current Benign) becomes protectorate French.

  • 1917 : Formation of a ministry Clemenceau in France.
  • 1933 : The the United States recognize the the USSR.
  • 1937 : Lord Halifax meets Hitler to try to find a peaceful solution with the question of the Sudètes: it is the beginning of the British policy of appeasing.
  • 1954 : The colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of the Egypt.
  • 1963 : The army is raised in Iraq and sets up a revolutionary government directed by Abdel Salam Aref.
  • 1966 : In 20 minutes, a rain of more than 46000 Météorite S falls down on the Arizona
  • 1968: Alexandros Panagoulis was condemned to died by the junta of the Colonels in Greece.
  • 1969: Beginning of the American-Soviet conversations on the limitation of the strategic armaments (SALT).
  • 1971 : Vemij Thanon Kittikachorn seizes the capacity in Thailand, dissolves the Parliament and suspends the constitution.
  • 1972 : Return of Juan Perón in Argentinian after 17 of years of exile.
  • 1973 : With Athens, the revolt of the Greek students against the dictatorship of the colonels is crushed in blood.
  • 1975 : Emile Ajar refuses the Goncourt, it is not other than Romain Gary, already prize winner of the price.
  • 1981 : Official creation of the Movement initiative and freedom (MILLET).
  • 1983 : Formation of the group EZLN
  • 1985: According to the Colombian authorities, more 21  500 people died or disappeared following the mud flow, started by the eruption of the Volcan Nevado del Ruiz which buried the town of Armero.
  • 1986 : chairman of Renault, Georges Besse, is assassinated in an attack asserted by Direct action.
  • 1989 : Repression by the communist police force of a demonstration of students with Prague. This event will be the release of the Révolution of Velvet.
  • 1990 : The Supreme Soviet approves the proposal of Mikhaïl Gorbatchev to reorganize the central capacity of the Soviet Union.
  • 1993 : The team of France of football is eliminated in the race with the Football world cup 1994 by the Bulgaria, on the score of 2-1.
  • 1994 : Extradited Uruguay, the former mayor of Nice Jacques Médecin is accommodated by the French legal authorities with Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle.
  • 1997 : Sixty two people (58 tourists and four Egyptians) find death in a Attentat asserted by the islamist ones of the Jamaa Islamiya, with Louxor, in High-Egypt; the six terrorists are killed by the police force.
  • 1998 : The French footballer Jean-Pierre Papin takes his retirement.
  • 1999 : Swiss modification in of the ordinance of the July 4th 1984 regulating the documentary evidence of the origin of the goods as regards Foreign trade.
  • 2000 : The Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori gives his resignation in a letter addressed to the president of the Congress, Valentín Paniagua, thus putting a term at more than ten years of an authoritative reign.

XXIe century

  • 2001 : The Taliban S confirm the death of the Egyptian Mohammed Atef, brain according to Washington of the attacks of the September 11th.

  • 2002 : The former president of the Italian Council Giulio Andreotti, 83 years, is condemned to 24 years of prison to have financed the assassination of a journalist in 1979; its immunity of senator with life protects it from the prison.
  • 2003 : Two former ministers, François Léotard and Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, are returned in front of the magistrates' court of Paris for " bleaching of argent" and " infringement with the law on the financing of the parties politiques".
  • 2004 :
    • the Court of Appeal of Paris confirms the Non-lieu marked in the business known as of the " expenses of bouche" couple Chirac because of the regulation of the facts.
    • With the Quebec, Guy Cloutier pleads guilty with five counts of indictment (indecent assault, sexual relationship with a child of less than 14 years, sexual assault, attempt at obstacle to justice by offering to the victim a sum 300  000$ in 2004, indecent assault on another victim during six years).

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Death

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Catholic saints of the day

See too

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