Today is Sunday, November seventeenth, the 322nd day of 2024. There are 44 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On November 17, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born actor who became considered one of America's biggest film stars within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, was sworn in because the thirty eighth Governor of California.
Also on this date:
In 1800, Congress held its first session within the partially accomplished U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC
In 1973, President Richard Nixon told a gathering of Associated Press senior editors at a televised news conference in Orlando, Florida: “People need to find out whether their president is a crook or not.” Well, I'm not a crook. “
In 1968, the final minutes of a thrilling NFL game on NBC between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders were previewed by the children's film “Heidi.” The broadcaster received thousands of calls from angry viewers and officially apologized.
In 1989, an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Czechoslovak students demonstrated in Prague against communist rule; Hundreds of thousands joined the protests in the following days. The protests, dubbed the “Velvet Revolution” due to their nonviolent nature, led to the resignation of the Communist Party leadership on November 28.
In 1997, 62 people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed when militants opened fire on the Temple of Hatshepsut (haht-shehp-SOOT') in Luxor, Egypt; The attackers were killed by the police.
In 2020, President Donald Trump fired the nation's top election security official, Christopher Krebs, who refuted Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote.
Today's birthdays:
- Film director Martin Scorsese (skor-SEH'-see) is 82.
- Actress and model Lauren Hutton is 81.
- Actor and director Danny DeVito is 80.
- Basketball Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim is 80.
- “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels is 80.
- Basketball Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes is 79.
- Film director Roland Joffe is 79.
- Former House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-NUR) is 75.
- Actor Stephen Root is 73.
- TV presenter and entertainer RuPaul is 64.
- Actor Dylan Walsh is 61.
- TV presenter Daisy Fuentes is 58.
- R&B singer Ronnie DeVoe (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe) is 57.
- Actress Rachel McAdams is 46.
image credit : www.mercurynews.com