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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_17" title="November 17">November 17</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1558" title="1558">1558</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Elizabeth I</a></b> became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs" title="List of English monarchs">Queen of England</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Ireland" title="Monarchy of Ireland">of Ireland</a>, marking the beginning of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era" title="Elizabethan era">Elizabethan era</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1592" title="1592">1592</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_III_Vasa" title="Sigismund III Vasa">Sigismund III Vasa</a></b>, who was already <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Polish_monarchs" title="List of Polish monarchs">King of Poland</a>, succeeded his father <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_of_Sweden" title="John III of Sweden"><span class="nowrap">John III</span></a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedish_monarchs" title="List of Swedish monarchs">King of Sweden</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1796" title="1796">1796</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a>: French forces defeated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_monarchy" title="Habsburg monarchy">Austrians</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arcole" title="Battle of Arcole">Battle of Arcole</a></b> in a manoeuvre to cut the latter's line of retreat.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> controversially <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game" title="Heidi Game">cut away</a></b> from an American football game between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Raiders" title="Oakland Raiders">Oakland Raiders</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">New York Jets</a> to broadcast <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_(1968_film)" title="Heidi (1968 film)">Heidi</a></i>, causing viewers in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_United_States" title="Eastern United States">Eastern United States</a> to miss the game's dramatic ending.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – Administrators at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_East_Anglia" title="University of East Anglia">University of East Anglia</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit" title="Climatic Research Unit">Climatic Research Unit</a> discovered that their servers had been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_hacker" title="Security hacker">hacked</a> and thousands of emails and files on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy" title="Climatic Research Unit email controversy">had been stolen</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz" title="Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz">Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1818); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery" title="Bernard Montgomery">Bernard Montgomery</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1887); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng_On-yee" title="Ng On-yee">Ng On-yee</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1990)</p>
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