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1558 : Beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I On November 17, 1558, at the death of her half-sister Mary, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, became Queen of England. She remained queen until her death in 1603. Her reign was marked by religious divisions and conflicts with Catholic countries but also by the beginning of the domination of the English fleet and great explorations.
1796 : End of the Battle of Arcole On November 17, 1796, the French revolutionary forces led by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austrians at Arcole, near Verona in Italy.
1869 : Opening of the Suez Canal On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea was opened for traffic. Built by Ferdinand de Lesseps, thousands of forced laborers and European workers with steam machines, it was initially not very wide or very deep. Expansion work were undertaken from 1876 and the channel became a major shipping route.
1997 : Luxor massacre On November 17, 1997, an attack with automatic weapons was perpetrated by the Islamist organization Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya on the archaeological site of Deir el-Bahri, outside the temple of Hatshepsut, near Luxor, on the other side of the Nile. 62 people were killed, mostly foreign tourists.

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Nicolas Appert, Inventor francés (1749)
Bernard Montgomery, Mariscal de campo inglés (1887)
Douglas Shearer, Diseñador de sonido canadiense (1899)
Lee Strasberg, Director de cine americano (1901)
Eugene Wigner, Físico húngaro estadounidense, Premio Nobel de Física (1902)
Soichiro Honda, Pionero del automóvil japonés (1906)
Stanley Cohen, Bioquímico americano, Premio Nobel de Medicina (1922)
Rock Hudson, Actor americano (1925)
Fenella Fielding, Actriz inglesa (1927)
Toni Sailer, Esquiador austriaco (1935)
Peter Cook, Comediante y escritor inglés (1937)
Martin Scorsese, Director de cine americano (1942)
Lauren Hutton, Actriz americana (1943)
Danny DeVito, Actor americano (1944)
Roland Joffé, Director de cine inglés y francés (1945)
Nguyen Tan Dung, Primer ministro de Vietnam (1949)
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Actriz americana (1958)
Dylan Walsh, Actor americano (1963)
Susan Rice, Diplomática estadounidense (1964)
Jeff Buckley, Músico estadounidense (1966)
Richard Fortus, Músico estadounidense (Guns N' Roses) (1966)
Sophie Marceau, Actriz francesa (1966)
Alexei Urmanov, Patinador artístico ruso (1973)
Eunice Barber, Atleta francesa (1974)
Diane Neal, Actriz americana (1976)
Harry Lloyd, Actor inglés (1983)
Christopher Paolini, Escritor americano (1983)
Ryan Bradley, Patinador artístico estadounidense (1983)

Jacques François Dugommier, General francés (1794)
Catherine II, Emperatriz de todas las Rusias (1796)
Auguste Rodin, Escultor francés (1917)
Mervyn Peake, Escritor inglés (1968)
Robert Hofstadter, Físico americano, Premio Nobel (1990)
Louis Néel, Físico francés, Premio Nobel (2000)