Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 17

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 * 1558 – Elizabeth I (pictured) became Queen of England and of Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era.
 * 1592 – Sigismund III Vasa, who was already King of Poland, succeeded his father John III as King of Sweden.
 * 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the latter's line of retreat.
 * 1941 – World War II: Hjalmar Siilasvuo ordered Finnish forces to halt their assault against Soviet forces near Salla, concluding Operation Arctic Fox.
 * 1950 – The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of fifteen.
 * 1968 – NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
 * 2009 – Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
 * 2012 – In Manfalut, Egypt, a school bus was hit by a train, killing at least 50 children.
 * 2013 – Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all fifty people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.


 * Born/died: | Zanobi Strozzi |b|1412| Agnes of Jesus |b|1602| Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain |b|1729| Nicolas Appert |b|1749| Bernardo Bellotto |d|1780| Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz |d|1818|  Bernard Montgomery |b|1887| Rosemary Sinclair |b|1936|Petra Burka |b|1946| Ng On-yee|b|1990 | Robert Hofstadter |d|1990| Rikard Wolff |d|2017

November 17


 * 1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus.
 * 1943 – World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on Sattelberg, New Guinea, against Japanese forces, initiating the Battle of Sattelberg.
 * 1989 – Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres, starting the Disney Renaissance.
 * 1997 – Sixty-two people were killed by Islamist terrorists outside Deir el-Bahari (pictured) in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
 * 2013 – An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indiana.