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Old 11-17-2006, 08:01 AM
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November 17th
1777 ~ Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.

1869 ~ The Suez Canal was opened.

1887 ~ Birthday of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

1917 ~ Death of Auguste Rodin, Sculptor.

1929 ~ Death of Herman Hollerith, Statistician.

1959 ~ Death of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian Composer.

1970 ~ In one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program, The USSR landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1.

1970 ~ Douglas Engelbart received a patent for the first computer mouse.

1997 ~ An Islamic extremist group killed 60 tourists at Luxor, Egypt.

2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was inaugurated Governor of California.
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