Wednesday, 17 November 2010

On This Day - 17th November


1869 - The Suez Canal opens
1901 - Lee Strasberg born
1917 - Sculpter Auguste Rodin dies
1925 - Rock Hudson born
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot born
1942 - Martin Scorsese born
1943 - Lauren Hutton born
1944 - Lorne Michaels, Danny DeVito and Tom Sever born
1953 - Twenty Italian sailors die following a collision between two boats in the English Channel.
1960 - RuPaul born
1966 - Daisy Fuentes born
1977 - Laura Wilkinson born
1980 - Isaac Hanson born
1986 - The head of the Renault car company, Georges Besse, is assassinated in Paris.
1989 - Riot police in Prague, Czechoslovakia arrest hundreds of people taking part in a protest march.
1997 - 68 people are killed after an attack on a group of foreign tourists visiting a temple in Luxor, southern Egypt.
2003 - An ex-soldier who served in the Gulf War is found guilty of at least one of the Washington sniper killings in October last year.

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