November 17: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

• Sophie Marceau (1966)

  French actress, seen with Mel Gibson in her first English-speaking role as "Braveheart".

• Rachel McAdams (1978)

  Canadian actress.

• Jeff Buckley (1966)

  American musician who made his debut in the avant-garde clubs scene of the 1990s.

• Martin Scorsese (1942)

  American film director and award-winning filmmaker Scorsese is well-known for his fascination with the dark side of life.

• Rock Hudson (1925)

  American actor.

• Lauren Hutton (1943)

  American actress, supermodel and TV personality.

• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (1958)
• Jonathan Ross (1960)

  TV Show Host.

• Leslie Bibb (1974)

  American actress.

• Peter Cook (1937)

  British comedian and satirist.

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• Clive Brook (1974)

  Actor/director (On Approval), dead at 87.

• Arthur Conley (2003)

  American singer-songwriter (d.2003).

• Esther Rolle (1998)

  American actress (Born 1920).

• Marek Perepeczko (2005)

  Polish actor (Born 1942).

• Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1936)

  Austrian opera singer who sang in oratorios, concerts, and in vaudeville.

• Naunton Wayne (1970)

  Actor (Dead Of Night), dies in 69.

• Gladys Cooper (1971)

  Actress (Margaret - The Rogues), passes away at 83.

• Ruth Donnelly (1982)

  Comedian, who dies in New York City at the age of 86.

• Louis Neel (2000)

  French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (Born in 1904).

• John Glascock (1979)

  English singer and bass player (Jethro Tull, Carmen The Gods and Chicken Shack).

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Western Zodiac

Scorpio

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• Nov 17th, 2018 Syrian Civil War: Following months of fighting, the Syrian government forces take back control of Tulul al-Safa, south Syria from ISIL.
• Nov 17th, 2017 Iraqi Civil War (2014-2017: 2017 Western Iraq Campaign: The Iraqi Army seizes Rawa from Islamic State in Iraq & the Levant (ISIL). It was the last Iraqi town that ISIL held.
• Nov 17th, 2016 According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least ten people were killed in a car bomb attack in Azaz, Aleppo Governorate.
• Nov 17th, 2015 Metrojet Flight 926: Russia's Federal Security Service has announced that the plane was struck by a bomb. (The Guardian, (Reuters) Russian President Vladimir Putin promises retribution for those who were responsible for the plane's destruction last month. Putin orders the Russian Navy and the French Navy to coordinate military operations against Syria. The Russian Federal Security Service offers $50 million bounty to the bombers.
• Nov 17th, 2014 After months of fighting off a Canada-based takeover bid, Allergan's board accepts $66 billion from Actavis, an Irish white knight.
• Nov 17th, 2013 Libya's deputy intelligence chief Mustafa Noah has been kidnapped by terrorists outside Tripoli airport.

• Nov 17th, 2012 One person is killed and 20 others are injured when insurgents set off a motorcycle bomb in Mueangyla District, south Thailand. This attack happened one day before President Barack Obama's visit.
• Nov 17th, 2011 2011 Syrian uprising: Gunfire and explosions are reported in Damascus, the Syrian capital.
• Nov 17th, 2010 CERN researchers trap 38 antihydrogen-atoms for one sixth of a second. This marks the first time that humans have ever trapped antimatter.
• Nov 17th, 2009 Aminatou Haidar is a prominent human rights activist for the Western Sahara. She is currently on hunger strike at an Airport in the Canary Islands and will appear before a Spanish court to face charges of public disorder.
• Nov 17th, 2008 Citigroup will reduce 75,000 jobs in the first half of 2009.
• Nov 17th, 2007 Two NATO Canadian soldiers and an interpreter die in Afghanistan's War on Terrorism. Three more soldiers are also wounded.

November 17th marks the 320th day of year the Gregorian calendar;

There are 44 days remaining until the end of the year.

What day of the week is November 17th?

On November 17th, 2023 the day of the week is Friday.

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