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On This Day: November 17
UpdatedNovember 17, 2013,1:28 pm
On Nov. 17, 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that ``people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.''
On Nov. 17, 1901, Lee Strasberg, the director who pioneered the technique of "method acting", was born. Following his death on Feb. 17, 1982, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On Nov. 17, 1558, Elizabeth I ascended to the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary.
On This Date
By The Associated Press
| 1800 | Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C., in the partially completed Capitol building. |
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| 1869 | The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas. |
| 1934 | Lyndon B. Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird." |
| 1962 | Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., was dedicated. |
| 1968 | NBC outraged football fans by cutting away from the final minutes of a game to air a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. |
| 1970 | The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon. |
| 1973 | President Richard M. Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., "I'm not a crook." |
| 1997 | Six militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 people, most of them foreign tourists. The attackers were killed by police. |
| 2003 | John Allen Muhammad was convicted of two counts of capital murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings. (He was later sentenced to death and executed.) |
| 2003 | Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California. |
| 2008 | The vampire romance movie "Twilight" premiered in Los Angeles. |
| 2010 | A hand-count of votes affirmed the re-election of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the first Senate candidate in over 50 years to win a write-in campaign. |
| 2010 | The first Guantanamo detainee to face civilian trial, Ahmed Ghailani, was convicted by federal jury in New York on one charge of conspiracy related to 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Ghailani's native Tanzania. |
Historic Birthdays
Lee Strasberg11/17/1901 - 2/17/1982American film director. Go to obituary »| 69 | Angelo Bronzino 11/17/1503 - 11/23/1572 Italian painter |
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| 91 | Joost van den Vondel 11/17/1587 - 2/5/1679 Dutch poet |
| 64 | Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye 11/17/1685 - 12/5/1749 French-Canadian soldier, fur trader and explorer |
| 68 | Louis XVIII 11/17/1755 - 9/16/1824 French king (1814-24) |
| 71 | Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes 11/17/1895 - 12/10/1966 Mexican novelist |
| 84 | Isamu Noguchi 11/17/1904 - 12/30/1988 American sculptor |
| 61 | Mischa Auer 11/17/1905 - 3/5/1967 American actor |
| 59 | Rock Hudson 11/17/1925 - 10/2/1985 American actor |
