Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 17
November 17: International Students Day; Peak of the Leonids
- 1558 - Elizabeth I ascended the English Throne.
- 1869 - The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, was inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
- 1969 - The SALT I negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States began in Helsinki.
- 1970 - Douglas Engelbart received the patent for the first computer mouse.
- 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia began.
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