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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 17th November 2018   
   17 Nov 18 03:29:25   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-tmr-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1558 - Elizabeth I aged 25 ascends English throne upon death of her half   
   sister Queen "Bloody" Mary   
      
   1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia   
      
   1877 - Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at   
   Kars, Armenia   
      
   1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.   
      
   1937 - Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement   
      
   2002 - Australian Leyton Hewitt scores back-to-back season-ending Tennis   
   Masters Cup titles with a classic 7-5, 7-5, 2-6, 2-6, 6-4 victory over   
   Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero in Shanghai, China   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1925 - Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier   
      
   1929 - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba   
      
   1943 - Lauren Hutton, [Mary], model/actress (American Gigolo), born in   
   Charleston, South Carolina   
      
   1944 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach   
      
   1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician   
      
   1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier, dies at 80   
      
   1862 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63   
      
   1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social reformer (b. 1847)   
      
   1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)   
      
   1921 - John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912), dies   
      
   1986 - Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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