November 17
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1558 - Elizabeth I became Queen of England upon the death of Queen Mary this day. ‘Good Queen Bess’ ruled Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1558 to 1603 and during her reign, England became a world power.1851 - The U.S. Post Office issued a 1-cent carrier stamp to make it easier to pay fees for delivering and collecting letters. It was the first postage stamp to depict an American eagle; and the last to make it easier to pay the fees.
1869 - Over the years, a lot of squabbling has gone on over a 100-mile (160 kilometers) ditch called the Suez Canal. Formally opened on this day, the canal connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas, eliminating a 4000-mile trip around Africa.
1877 - The first production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera, The Sorcerer, was presented -- in London.
1891 - Poland’s premier and premier ivory tickler, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, made his American debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In later years, Paderewski, who suffered from arthritis, settled in Paso Robles, CA. The hot mineral baths located there eased his pain. He played only Steinway grand pianos custom-built to his specifications. In fact, five were made just for his use.
1894 - The Daily Racing Form, “America’s Turf Authority...” was first printed -- in Chicago, Illinois.
1928 - The Boston Garden officially opened. The Garden served as home of the Celtics and Bruins until it was replace by the “more-lavish FleetCenter” in 1995.
1938 - Orchestra leader Kay Kyser, speaking to an audience at the College of the City of New York (CCNY) told of the “inner workings and artistic features of swing music.” It marked the first of a series of lectures on swing music presented by Kyser, who went on to present The Kollege of Musical Knowledge on radio.
1941 - Ernst Udet, head of the German Luftwaffe Ordnance Department, committed suicide after disagreements with the Nazi leadership.
1950 - Roberta Peters filled in for the lead in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, making her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She would become one of the Met’s most famous stars.
1954 - Golfer Arnold Palmer signed a contract with Wilson Sporting Goods and became a pro.
1962 - The 4 Seasons, with Frankie Valli as lead singer, began a five-week run at the top of the tunedex with Big Girls Don’t Cry.
1966 - Woody Allen’s first play, Don’t Drink the Water, opened on Broadway. The show entertained audiences through Apr 20, 1968.
1968 - The ‘Heidi Game’ happened on TV. The New York Jets/Oakland Raiders football game was cut off to begin a family show (Heidi) on NBC. The TV audience missed Oakland’s two touchdowns (in nine seconds) to win the game 43-32. NBC was flooded with calls and the concept of program delay was instituted immediately by the networks.
1970 - Elton John recorded an album live, on what was WABC-FM in New York City. It marked the first time that a concert was aired live and recorded for release as aired. The LP was titled, 11/17/70.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, FL that “people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
1973 - The Greek regime used tanks on a mob of students and hundreds were killed. The left-wing November 17 group took this date for their name and engaged in over 23 killings through 2002.
1979 - Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of thirteen female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1980 - Roger Mudd began working as chief Washington correspondent for NBC. Roger Mudd had left CBS after being passed over as Walter Cronkite’s replacement on The CBS Evening News.
1981 - Luke Spencer married Laura Baldwin in what was called “the wedding of the year” on the TV serial General Hospital. An audience of 14 million viewers watched as vows were exchanged on the ABC program.
1986 - Racecar driver Rick Mears set a U.S. closed-course record at the Michigan International Speedway. Mears was timed at an average speed of 233.934 mph, breaking the record set by Mark Donahue in 1975.
1987 - A federal jury in Denver convicted two neo-Nazis and acquitted two others of civil rights violations in the 1984 slaying of radio talk show host Alan Berg.
1990 - President George Bush (I), made the first visit to Czechoslovakia by a U.S. president. He told a cheering crowd of 100,000 in Prague that “America will stand with you” through the hard times ahead.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), by a vote of 234 to 200. The Senate voted 60 to 38 for approval of the legislation on November 20. The bill was signed into law by President Clinton on December 8, 1993. It took effect on January 1, 1994. Under NAFTA, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico become a single, integrated market with $6.5 trillion worth of goods and services annually.
1994 - The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard opened at Minskoff Theater on Broadway. Glenn Close played the faded movie star Norma Desmond. Sunset Boulevard ran for 977 performances.
1995 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: The American President (“Why can’t the most powerful man in the world have the one thing he wants most?”), with Michael Douglas, Annete Bening, Martin Sheen and Michael J. Fox; Goldeneye (“You know the name. You know the number.”), starring Pierce Brosnan for the first time as Bond ... James Bond; and It Takes Two (“Two identical strangers. Two different worlds. One perfect match.”), with Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg.
1997 - Mario Lemieux was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame. On Nov 19 Mario Lemieux’s number 66 was retired in a ceremony at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. And, surprise, on Dec 27, 2000 Lemieux, part-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, became a player again.
1998 - Actress Esther Rolle died in Culver City, CA at the age of 78. Rolle was the Emmy award-winning matriarch in the 1970s TV series Good Times.
1999 - Officials investigating the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 said a relief co-pilot, Gameel el-Batouty, who was alone in the cockpit, had said in Arabic, “I made my decision now; I put my faith in God’s hands.” He uttered the words just before the jetliner began its fatal plunge. All 217 people aboard the Boeing 767 died in the October 31 crash.
2000 - It was opening day in the U.S. for these films: Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch!”), with Jim Carrey as the Grinch, Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who, Christine Baranski as Martha May Whovier and Anthony Hopkins narrating; Rugrats in Paris - The Movie (“France never had a chance!”), starring the voices of Susan Sarandon, John Lithgow, Debbie Reynolds, Tim Curry and Casey Kasem; and The 6th Day (“They picked the wrong man to clone.”), with Arnold Schwarzenneger, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport and Robert Duvall.
2001 - Lennox Lewis knocked out Hasim Rahman in the fourth round to win back his WBC and IBF heavyweight boxing titles. Rahman had held the title for just seven months.
2001 - John M. Dawson, plasma physics expert, died at 71 years of age. Dawson is considered to be the father of computer-simulated plasma models and of plasma-based particle accelerators.
2002 - Israeli statesman Abba Eban died at 87 years of age. Eban helped persuade the world to approve creation of a Jewish state and dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades.
2003 - John Allen Muhammad was convicted of masterminding the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington DC area.
2003 - Body builder/actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th governor of California. As promised, he immediately rolled back the state’s 300% increase in the vehicle license fee, which been a big issue in the Oct 7 recall election that had ousted Democratic Governor Gray Davis.
2004 - U.S. House of Representatives Republicans adopted a rule change that would allowmajority leader Tom DeLay of Texas to keep his post if he was indicted on state corruption charges. The change was rescinded a few months later. In 2005 Delay was indicted and forced to step down as majority leader.
2004 - Kmart Corporation, led by Edward Lampert, announced the $11.5-billion acquisition of Sears Roebuck and Company.
2005 - Controversial historian David Irving was arrested in Vienna on charges of denying the Holocaust (a criminal offence in Austria). Irving had claimed that Adolf Hitler knew nothing about the systematic slaughter of six million Jews.
2006 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, Simon Abkarian, Tobias Menzies, Ivana Milicevic, Clemens Schik, Ludger Pistor, Claudio Santamaria and Isaach de Bankole; Fast Food Nation, with Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannavale, Luis Guzman, Ethan Hawke, Ashley Johnson, Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, Esai Morales, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ana Claudia Talancon and Wilmer Valderrama; and Let’s Go to Prison, starring Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, Chi McBride, Dylan Baker, Steve Dahl, David Koechner and Michael Shannon.
2006 - Sony Corp. launched its new PlayStation 3 (PS3) in the U.S. It was the third home video game console produced by Sony and was the successor to their PlayStation 2.
2006 - An Israeli newspaper reported that Israel was using nanotechnology to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that was able to chase, photograph and kill its targets.
2006 - Former University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler died in Southfield, Michigan. He was 77 years old.
2007 - The death toll from a cyclone that wreaked havoc on southwest Bangladesh reached 1,723. It was the deadliest storm to hit the country in a decade.
2008 - Cash-strapped General Motors Corp said it would sell its entire stake in Suzuki Motor Corp, the automaker’s latest move to stay afloat while awaiting a decision on government aid for the industry.
2008 - Australia said it would invest millions of dollars in non-lethal whale research to show Japan that the animals do not need to be killed in order to be studied.
2008 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Mark Cuban, high-tech entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, with illegal insider trading for allegedly using confidential information to avoid over $750,000 in stock losses from the sale of Mama.com stock in 2004. (The suit was dimissed in July 2009.)
2009 - New movies in the U.S.: Train, with Thora Birch, Derek Magyar, Gloria Votsis, Kavan Reece and Gideon Emery; and Wrong Turn at Tahoe, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Keitel, Leonor Varela and Noel Gugliemi.
2010 - The first Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay) detainee to face a civilian trial was found guilty -- of one count of conspiracy. A U.S. federal jury in New York City acquitted Ahmed Ghailani on 280 other charges, including murder, stemming from the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which killed 224 people. The presiding judge in the trial still sentenced Ghailani, 36, to life in prison for the bombings.
2011 - Australian scientists exploring areas of the Indian Ocean reported that they had found submerged sections of the megacontinent Gondwana. The researchers said the discovery would offer clues on how the current world was formed -- and would shed light on how Gondwana broke into present-day Australia, Antarctica and India between 80 and 130 million years ago.
2011 - Police arrested over 200 protesters who sat on the ground and blocked traffic into New York City’s financial district. The demonstration was part of a day of mass gatherings in response to efforts to break up Occupy Wall Street camps across the U.S.
2012 - Groups opposed to French President Francois Hollande’s plans to legalize gay marriage and gay adoptions took to the streets in Paris, Lyon and Toulouse.
2013 - French President Francois Hollande arrived in Israel with assurances that that France would continue to oppose the easing of economic sanctions against Iran until it was convinced Tehran had given up any pursuit of nuclear weapons.
2013 - The musical comedy A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre, running until January 17, 2016 (905 performances). The show won four Tonys at the 68th Tony Awards in June 2014 -- including Best Musical.
2014 - Australia and China signed a free-trade deal that would give Australia’s service industry unsurpassed access to the Chinese market. CAFTA also gave Australian agriculture advantages over competitors from the United States, Canada and the European Union.
2014 - The West Hollywood (California) City Council passed a resolution urging the Los Angeles County district attorney not to prosecute doctors and family members who provide lethal medication to mentally competent, terminally ill adults requesting it.
2015 - POTUS Barack Obama announced that the U.S. was handing over two ships to the Philippine Navy to boost its maritime security capabilities, in a bid to show the U.S. and its allies would not be cowed by China in disputed waters far off its coast.
2015 - France and Russia conducted airstrikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria, punishing the group for Nov 13 attacks in Paris and the downing of a Russian airliner on Oct 31 that together killed 353 people.
2016 - The U.S. Surgeon General released a report titled Facing Addiction in America. The report noted that 78 people in the U.S. were dying each day from opioid overdose and that 20 million had a substance abuse disorder.
2016 - The surge in stock prices since Donald Trump’s election had defied the expectations of many prognosticators on Wall Street. But interest rates for home loans also jumped almost a half-percentage point -- to nearly 4%.
2017 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres included: Justice League, starring Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa; the animated The Star, featuring the voices of Steven Yeun, Kristin Chenoweth, Zachary Levi, Gina Rodriguez, Tyler Perry, Christopher Plummer, Keegan-Michael Key, Patricia Heaton and Kris Kristofferson; the animated The Breadwinner, with voices by Saara Chaudry, Laara Sadiq and Shaista Latif; and Wonder, starring Julia Roberts, Jacob Tremblay and Owen Wilson.
2017 - Iraqi forces captured the border town of Rawa, the last remaining town under Islamic State control. The victory signaled the collapse of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate.
2018 - POTUS Donald Trump joined Governor Jerry Brown and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom to tour the devastation of California’s Butte County Camp Fire. Trump suggested the “forest nation” Finland did a better job preventing wildfires by devoting “a lot of time raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don’t have any problem.” California fire officials said the increasing severity of wildfires in the state is due to climate change, not forest management practices.
2018 - Many of the nearly 3,000 Central American migrants who had reached the Mexican border with California via caravan said they did not feel welcome in the city of Tijuana. Hundreds more migrants are headed after more than a month on the road. Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum called the migrants’ arrival an “avalanche” that the city was ill-prepared to handle. The vast majority of migrants were camped at an outdoor sports complex, sleeping on a dirt baseball field and under bleachers with a view of the steel walls topped by barbed wire at the newly reinforced border. The city opened the complex after other shelters were filled to capacity. Church groups provided portable showers, bathrooms and sinks.
2019 - Movie news: Ford v Ferrari left its box office competitors in the dust as the Disney historical sports drama sped on its way to $31 million in North America. And Joker from Warner Bros. officially became the first R-rated movie in history to gross over $1 billion at the global box office.
2019 - A Hong Kong police officer was struck by an arrow fired by a protester and an armored vehicle was set ablaze. The actions came as fires raged into the night around a campus which had turned into a base for a pro-democracy movement that had sunk Hong Kong into turmoil. Activists dug in around Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), setting large fires to prevent police from conducting a threatened raid on the campus.
2020 - German police said that they had three suspects in custody almost a year after what was thought to be the biggest jewel heist in history. Two others were still being hunted in connection with the brazen theft of an estimated $1 billion worth of treasure from the Green Vault of Dresden Castle.
2020 - A U.S. interceptor missle fired from the USS John Finn successfully shot down a mock ICBM in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
2020 - Black Panther actor Michael B. Jordan was named People magazine’s sexiest man alive. Jordan was the third Black actor in a row to be given the annual pop culture honor.
2020 - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker joined other governors of Great Lakes states — of both political parties — in calling for help with testing, contact tracing and hospital staffing -- in addition to more money for businesses, schools and the unemployed -- because of COVID-19.
2021 - A cybersecurity alert published by the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) warned that a hacking group from Iran’s government was launching disruptive cyberattacks against a wide range of U.S. companies, including healthcare providers and transportation firms.
2021 - Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that over 100,000 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses during the 12-month period ending in April 2021.
2022 - Jesse Benton, a former top aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), and former Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), was convicted of helping a Russian citizen illegally funnel a political donation to former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Benton, 44, purchased a $25,000 ticket to a September 2016 Republican National Committee event for Trump and gave the ticket to Russian multilevel marketer Roman Vasilenko, who wanted to support and meet Trump. Vasilenko then gave Benton $100,000. He then contributed $25,000 to the campaign, and pocketed the rest.
2022 - Ticketmaster canceled public ticket sales for singer Taylor Swift’s U.S. tour, citing “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory.” The site was only supposed to be open to around 1.5 million verified Taylor Swift fans, but 14 million people, including bots, had hit the site.
2023 - New movies in the U.S. included: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, starring Dexter Sol Ansell, Rosa Gotzler, Clemens Schick and Fionnula Flanagan; Next Goal Wins, with Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley and Kaimana Kaimana; Thanksgiving, starring Rick Hoffman, Gina Gershon and Patrick Dempsey; and the animated Trolls Band Together, featuring characters voiced by Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel and Amy Schumer.
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Birthdays on This Day November 17
1749 - Nicolas Appert
chef, confectioner, chemist, inventor: invented canning process of heating foods and sealing them in airtight containers; died June 3, 18411799 - Titian Ramsay Peale
artist, naturalist: travelled with Wilkes Expedition to the South Pacific [1838-1842]; son of artist Charles Willson Peale; died Mar 13, 18851887 - Field Marshal Bernard (Law) ‘Monty’ Montgomery
British Army commander of ground forces at Normandy landing [1944]; British Eighth Army; died Mar 24, 19761901 - Lee Strasberg (Israel Strassberg)
film director; teacher of method acting at Actor’s Studio; died Feb 17, 19821905 - Mischa Auer (Ounskowsky)
actor: My Man Godfrey, Brewster’s Millions, Destry Rides Again, You Can’t Take It with You; died Mar 5, 19671916 - Shelby Foote
historian, writer: The Civil War; died Jun 27, 20051925 - Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr.)
actor: McMillan and Wife, Giant, A Gathering of Eagles, Ice Station Zebra, Magnificent Obsession, Pillow Talk, Written on the Wind; died Oct 2, 19851926 - Robert Brown
actor: Here Come the Brides, Primus, Tower of London, Games Mother Never Taught You, The Last Hurrah, The Flame Barrier; died Sep 19, 20221928 - Rance Howard
actor: Ed Wood, Gung Ho, Gentle Ben, Babylon 5, Cool Hand Luke, The Music Man, Night Shift, Willow, Backdraft, Ransom, EDtv, The Da Vinci Code; father of actor, director Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard; died Nov 25, 20171930 - Bob Mathias
Olympic & National Track & Field Hall of Famer: gold medalist decathlon [1948, 1952]; Sullivan Award; graced Wheaties boxes for years; Olympic torch lighter [1984]; U.S. congressman; played himself in The Bob Mathias Story; director: Olympic Training Center; died Sep 2, 20061933 - Orlando (Gregorio Quevara) Peña
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds, KC Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles, SL Cardinals, California Angels1936 - Gary Bell
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1960, 1966], Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967/all-star: 1968], Chicago White Sox, Seattle Pilots1937 - Jim (James Thomas) Brewer
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1965, 1966, 1974/all-star: 1973], California Angels; died Nov 16, 19871937 - Peter Cook
actor: Beyond the Fringe, Beyond the Fringe ’64, Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe, Bedazzled, Monte Carlo or Bust; writer: Bedazzled; died Jan 9, 19951938 - Gordon Lightfoot
singer: Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind, Carefree Highway, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; songwriter: Early Morning Rain, Ribbon of Darkness; died May 1, 20231941 - Gene Clark
singer, musician: guitar: group: The Byrds: Turn, Turn, Turn; New Christy Minstrels; died May 24, 19911942 - Bob Gaudio
songwriter, singer: group: The Royal Teens: Short Shorts; The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll1942 - Martin Scorsese
director: Mean Streets, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, New York, New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Cape Fear, Michael Jackson’s Bad video1943 - Lauren Hutton
actress: American Gigolo, Lassiter, Paper Lion1944 - Danny DeVito
Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1980-1981]; Twins, Batman Returns, Hoffa, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Terms of Endearment, director: Throw Mama from the Train, The War of the Roses, Jack the Bear; married to actress Rhea Perlman; TV spokesman for Jersey Mike’s subs1944 - Lorne Michaels
Emmy Award-winning writer: The Paul Simon Special [1977], Saturday Night Live [1976, 1977, 1989], Lily [1974]; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Three Amigos; Emmy Award-winning producer: Saturday Night Live [1976, 1993, 2002]; Sunday Night, The New Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Stuart Saves His Family, Lassie, The Coneheads, Wayne’s World series, Three Amigos1944 - Tom ‘Terrific’ (George Thomas) Seaver
Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Mets [World Series 1969, 1973/all-star: 1967-1973, 1975, 1976/Cy Young Award: 1969, 1973, 1975], Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1977, 1978, 1981], Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox; broadcaster: Reds, Mets, ABC; died Aug 31, 20201945 - Elvin Hayes
Basketball Hall of Famer: ‘The Big E’: San Diego/Houston Rockets, Baltimore Bullets; 5th on list of most games played in ABA/NBA; University of Houston, All America [1967, 1968]1946 - Martin Barre
musician: guitar: Jethro Tull: Living in the Past1948 - Howard Dean
physician; governor of Vermont [1991-2002]; chairman of Democratic National Committee [2005-2009]1948 - Herman Weaver
football: kicker: Detroit Lions, Seattle Seahawks1949 - Jon Avnet
film producer: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, A House Divided, Inspector Gadget, Mama Flora’s Family, Up Close and Personal, Boomtown1950 - Roland Matthes
swimmer: Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 and 200 meter backstroke [1968, 1972]1951 - Charlie Davis
football: Pittsburgh Steelers DT [Super Bowl IX], SL Cardinals, Houston Oilers1955 - Yolanda King
actress: Ghosts of Mississippi, America’s Dream, The Secret Path, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.; died May 15, 20071958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
actress: The Color of Money, The Abyss, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Class Action, Consenting Adults, Scarface1959 - William R. Moses
actor: Perry Mason, Falcon Crest, Mystic Pizza, Trial by Jury, The Perfect Wife1960 - RuPaul (RuPaul Andre Charles)
drag queen, actor, model, singer: Foxy Lady, Ho Ho Ho, Champion, Glamazon, Born Naked; cross-dressing TV host: The RuPaul Show, RuPaul’s Drag Race1962 - Eric Olson
actor: Apple’s Way, Swiss Family Robinson1963 - Dylan Walsh
actor: Nip/Tuck, The Stepfather, Secretariat, Lost Holiday: The Jim & Suzanne Shemwell Story, Antebody, More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story1966 - Daisy Fuentes
model: Revlon; TV host: MTV VJ; actress: Loving, America’s Funniest Home Videos1966 - Sophie Marceau (Maupu)
actress: La Boum, Pacific Palisades, Braveheart, The World is Not Enough, A Midsummer Night's Dream1966 - Jeff Nelson
baseball [pitcher]: Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers1967 - Ronnie DeVoe
singer: groups: New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe1968 - Amber Michaels
actress [1998-2012]: X-rated films: Ass Backwards, Busty Bondage Lesbians, Reincarnation of Betty Paige, Blown Away, She’s Under My Thumb; more1971 - David Ramsey
actor: Dexter, Mother and Child, Grey’s Anatomy, Castle, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, The West Wing, Ghost Whisperer1973 - Eli Marrero
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Royals1974 - Leslie Bibb
actress: Popular, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Capital City, See Spot Run, The Skulls, Private Parts, Iron Man, Confessions of a Shopaholic1975 - Jerome James
basketball [center]: Florida A&M Univ; NBA: Sacramento Kings, Seattle SuperSonics, New York Knicks1976 - Diane Neal
actress: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NCIS, Suits, Dracula III: Legacy, My Fake Fiancé1977 - Laura Wilkinson
diver: 2000 Olympic platform gold medal1978 - Tom Ellis
actor: Lucifer, Rush, Pulling, Miranda, The Strain, Sugartown, Monday Monday, Doctor Who1978 - Rachel McAdams
actress: The Hot Chick, Mean Girls, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Wedding Crashers, Red Eye, The Family Stone, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Midnight in Paris, The Vow; more1978 - Reggie Wayne
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Indianapolis Colts [2001-2014]: 2007 Super Bowl XLI champs1981 - Sarah Harding
singer: group: Girls Aloud: Sound of the Underground, Love Machine, Biology, No Good Advice, I’ll Stand By You, Jump, Show, See the Day1981 - Kyle Dean Massey
Broadway actor: Wicked, Xanadu, Next to Normal, Pippin1983 - Ryan Braun
baseball [left fielder]: Univ of Miami; MLB: Milwaukee Brewers: 5× NL All Star [2008–2012]1983 - Harry Lloyd
actor: Game of Thrones, Robin Hood, The Iron Lady, Taking the Flak, Doctor Who, Genie in the House1988 - Reid Perry
musician: bass: group: The Band Perry: If I Die Young, Better Dig Two, Done, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Chainsaw
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Hit Music on This Day November 17
1949That Lucky Old Sun (facts) - Frankie Laine
Don’t Cry, Joe (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
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