January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Day of death November 17, 1973
The temperature on November 17, 1973 was between 1.5 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 7 » In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
February 21 » Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
April 4 » A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
July 28 » Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
October 17 » OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
November 14 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
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