As we speak is Monday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2025. There are 44 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On Nov. 17, 1968, the final minutes of a tense NFL matchup on NBC between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders had been preempted by the youngsters’s movie “Heidi.” The community obtained hundreds of calls from offended viewers and formally apologized.
Additionally on this date:
In 1800, Congress held its first session within the partially accomplished U.S. Capitol constructing in Washington, D.C.
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In 1869, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
In 1973, President Richard Nixon instructed a gathering of Related Press managing editors at a televised information convention in Orlando, Florida: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
In 1989, an estimated 10,000-15,000 Czechoslovakian college students demonstrated in Prague towards Communist rule; a whole bunch of hundreds joined the protests within the following days. Dubbed the “Velvet Revolution” for its nonviolent nature, the protests led to the resignation of the Communist Occasion’s management on Nov. 28 that yr.
In 1997, 62 individuals, most of them international vacationers, had been killed when militants opened fireplace on the Temple of Hatshepsut (haht-shehp-SOOT’) in Luxor, Egypt; the attackers had been killed by police.
In 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born actor who had change into certainly one of America’s greatest film stars of the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, was sworn in because the thirty eighth governor of California.
In 2020, President Donald Trump fired the nation’s high election safety official, Christopher Krebs, who had refuted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
Movie director Martin Scorsese (skor-SEH’-see) is 83.
Actor-model Lauren Hutton is 82.
Actor-director Danny DeVito is 81.
Basketball Corridor of Fame coach Jim Boeheim is 81.
“Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels is 81.
Basketball Corridor of Famer Elvin Hayes is 80.
Movie director Roland Joffe is 80.
Actor Stephen Root is 74.
TV host-entertainer RuPaul is 65.
Actor Dylan Walsh is 62.
TV host-model Daisy Fuentes is 59.
R&B singer Ronnie DeVoe (New Version; Bell Biv DeVoe) is 58.
Actor Rachel McAdams is 47.
