Sunday November 17, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

November 17: Day of the Week

November 17, 2024 is the 322nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

November 17 Historical Event(s)

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The future Leo II is named associate emperor by Leo I.
1558
Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1603
English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1810
Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
1831
Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.
1839
Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
1876
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.
1922
The first executions during the Irish Civil War take place when five Irish Republican Army members are sent to the firing squad by the Irish Free State.
1973
The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
2000
A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

Who were born on November 17?

1886
Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (d. 1967)
1907
Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley’s secretary (d. 1985)
1925
Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1944
Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
1947
Inky Mark, Canadian politician
1967
Tab Benoit American Cajun musician
1972
Leonard Roberts, American actor
1975
Jerome James, American basketball player
1976
Jacqueline Aguilera, Venezuelan beauty queen
1978
Glen Air, Australian rugby league footballer

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