1831 : Gran Colombia was divided into two states, Ecuador and Venezuela.
1869 : The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, was inaugurated. However, the construction of this canal was completed 10 years ago.
1932 : The Third Round Table Conference began.
1933 : The United States recognized the Soviet Union.
1939 : Nazis entered Prague University and killed students. International Student Day is celebrated on 17 November in memory of those children.
1950 : Lhamo Dondrub officially became the 14th Dalai Lama.
1986 : Georges Bess, head of French car company Renault, was murdered in Paris. His killers came on a motorcycle and opened fire on him in front of his house.
1994 : Russia’s Mir spacecraft created a new world record by completing 50,000 orbits.
1997 : 68 foreign tourists were killed in southern Egypt when extremists attacked the bus of tourists.
2019 The first known case of COVID-19 was traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Famous Birthdays – November 17
09AD: Vespasian, the Roman emperor.
1749: Nicolas Appert, founder of Canning.
1755: Louis XVIII, King of France.
1901: Walter Holstein, the first President of the European Commission.
1906: Soichiro Honda, co-founder of Honda Motor Company.
1920: Gemini Ganesan, an Indian actor.
1923: Aristides Pereira, the first president of Cape Verde.
1849 : World famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for being a member of an underground organization.
1868 : Scientists Lacier and Nansen discovered helium by studying a total solar eclipse. It is named after the Greek sun-god Helios.
1893 : Dr. Annie Besant arriveed in India.
1907 : Oklahoma became the 46th state of the United States.
1914 : US Federal Reserve opened.
1915 : Vishnu Ganesh Pingale, accused in the Lahore conspiracy, and seven others, including Bagi Kartar Singh, were hanged.
1938 : Albert Hofmann’s invention of the lysergic acid diethylamide drug came into existence.
1945 : UNESCO was established.
1988 : Benazir Bhutto became Pakistan’s prime minister.
1997 : Swaraj Paul, a non-resident Indian entrepreneur, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Bradford University, UK.
2013 : After a long career of 24 years, the great cricketer Sachin Tendulkar retired from cricket and within a few hours, he was declared the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India. He got this honor at the youngest age (40).
Famous Birthdays – November 16
42BC: Tiberius, the second Roman emperor.
1846: Akbar Allahabadi, an Indian Urdu.
1896: Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, a British politician.
1897: Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistani nationalist.
1909: Hāfiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad, the third caliph, head of the Ahmadiyya Community.
1904: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s first president.
1927: Shriram Lagoo, an Indian film, and theatre actor.
1930: Mihir Sen, an Indian long-distance swimmer, and businessman.
1936: Ramoji Rao, an Indian film producer, and media entrepreneur.
1942: Sam Pitroda, an Indian telecom engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.
1946: Terence McKenna, an American ethnobotanist.
1963: Meenakshi Seshadri, an Indian actress, model, and dancer.
1973: Pullela Gopichand, a former Indian badminton player.
Death Anniversaries – November 16
1240: Ibn Arabi, an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher.
1797: Frederick William II, King of Prussia.
1915: Vishnu Ganesh Pingale, accused in the Lahore conspiracy, and seven others, including Bagi Kartar Singh, were hanged.
1947: Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman, and politician. He was the founder of the Venice Film Festival.
1950: Dr. Bob Smith, an American physician, and one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
1960: Clark Gable, American actor.
1967: Roshanlal Nagrath alias Roshan, Indian musician.
1973: Alan Wilson Watts, a British writer, and speaker.
2006: Milton Friedman, an American economist. He received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
1681, : The East India Company declared a separate princely state of Bengal.
1770 : James Bruce discovered the source of the Nile.
1922 : British Broadcasting Company launched radio service in the United Kingdom.
1969 : Establishment of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.
1973 : Princess Anne of Britain married a common citizen. Earlier this had not happened in the royal family.
1975 : Spain left Western Sahara.
1991 : German Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl was nominated for the 1990 Jawaharlal Nehru International Reconciliation Award.
2002 : Chinese President Jiang Zemin resigned from his post.
2006 : Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan agreed to create anti-terrorism mechanisms in New Delhi.
2008 : The first G-20 economic summit opened in Washington, D.C.
2013 Sachin Tendulkar started playing the last (200th) Test of his career. The match against the West Indies was played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Famous Birthdays – November 14
1650: King William III of England.
1719: Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, and violinist.
1765: Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamship.
1840: Oscar-Claude Monet, a French painter.
1863: Leo Hendrik Arthur Backland, American chemist.
1889: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.
1891: Birbal Sahni, an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent.
1922: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1935: King Hussein of Jordan.
1943: Aditya Vikram Birla, an Indian industrialist.
1948: Sindhutai Sapkal, an Indian social worker, and social activist.
1971: Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer.
1971: Vikas Khanna, Indian chef, and writer.
1975: Gary Vaynerchuk, a Belarusian-American entrepreneur, author, speaker, and Internet personality.
Death Anniversaries – November 14
1831: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German philosopher and an important figure in German idealism.
1915: Booker T. Washington, a social worker, writer, orator, and educator working for the African-American.
1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson, an American businessman, and engineer.
1967: C. K. Naidu, Indian cricketer.
1971: Narayan Hari Apte, novelist and film writer.
1977: Abhay Charanarvind Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founders of Hare Krishna sect.
1990: Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge, an English journalist, and satirist.
1993: Dr. Manibhai Bhimbhai Desai, an Indian Freedom Fighter.
2015: K. S. Gopalakrishnan, an Indian screenwriter, director, producer, and lyricist.
2016: Gwendolyn L. Ifill, an American journalist, television newscaster, and author.
