What Day of the Week

November 17, 2020 is the 322^nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1863

  American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins – Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
• 1869

  In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
• 1903

  The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for “majority”) and Mensheviks (Russian for “minority”).
• 1947

  The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
• 1957

  Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
• 1968

  Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
• 1970

  Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
• 1973

  Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook”.
• 1989

  Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
• 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.

• 1503

  Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1572)
• 1587

  Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
• 1827

  Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
• 1902

  Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 1925

  Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor (d. 2010)
• 1956

  Graham Jones, British author and psychologist
• 1960

  Michael Hertwig, German footballer
• 1973

  Andreas “Vintersorg” Hedlund, Swedish singer (Vintersorg)
• 1974

  Leslie Bibb, American actress
• 1983

  Trevor Crowe, American baseball player

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