Daily Calendar for Tuesday, November 17, 2026
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Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Died
- Queen Mary I of England –
- Auguste Rodin (sculptor) –
- Roger Peckinpaugh (baseball player) –
- Immanuel Velikovsky (author) –
- Dick O'Neill (actor) –
- Esther Rolle (actress) –
- Abba Eban (statesman, dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades) –
- Irving Brecher (comedy writer) –
Born
- George Grote (historian) –
- August Wilhelm Ambros (composer) –
- Grace Abbott (American reformer) –
- Lee Strasberg (actor and director; born in Budaniv, Ukraine) –
- Isamu Noguchi (sculptor) –
- Stanley Cohen (biochemist) –
- Rock Hudson (actor) –
- Bob Mathias (decathlon athlete) –
- Gordon Lightfoot (singer) –
- Martin Scorsese (director) –
- Tom Seaver (baseball player) –
- Danny DeVito (actor) –
- Daisy Fuentes (model & television host) –
- Sophie Marceau (actress) –
- Raquel Castro (actress) –
Events
- The U.S. Congress met for the first time in the Capitol, Washington, D.C. –
- Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer sighted Antarctica –
- First U.S. postage stamp of American eagle issued –
- Douglas C. Engelbart patented the computer mouse –
- A turkey was plucked in 1 minute 30 seconds, setting world record –
- Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurated as Governor of California –
- The soap opera All My Children taped its 9,000th episode –
- The world’s oldest champagne (salvaged from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea) was uncorked and sampled. Wine experts date the bottles as being from the early 19th century. –
Weather
- Remarkable aurora borealis shows were seen throughout the United States –
- A tornado touched down in Cass County, Indiana –