What Day of the Week

November 17, 2019 was the 321^st day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 44 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.

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

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.

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• 473

  The future Leo II is named associate emperor by Leo I.
• 1603

  English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
• 1812

  Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
• 1855

  David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
• 1869

  In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
• 1911

  Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an HBCU, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington,DC.
• 1947

  American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century.
• 1968

  Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
• 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.
• 2009

  Administrators at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia discover their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen, which would serve as the basis of the “Climategate” controversy.

• 1895

  Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
• 1905

  Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
• 1936

  Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
• 1937

  Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
• 1942

  Martin Scorsese, American film director
• 1947

  Inky Mark, Canadian politician
• 1959

  Terry Fenwick, English footballer
• 1964

  Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
• 1969

  Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
• 1980

  Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)

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