Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 17
November 17: International Students' Day
- 1558 - Elizabeth I (pictured) ascended the English Throne.
- 1720 - Pirate captain Calico Jack and his entire crew except Anne Bonny and Mary Read were hanged.
- 1869 - The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, was inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
- 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
- 1969 - The SALT I negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States began in Helsinki.
- 1989 - A student demonstration in Prague was quelled by riot police, sparking the Velvet Revolution aimed at overthrowing the Czechoslovakian communist government.
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