About the day » Sunday November 17, 1878Calender converter

• Alart (Albert) ten Kleij, Beekbergen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna van Vlimmeren, Hoeven,Gemeents Halderberge,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1962)
• Alfred Martin Birk, Madison Township, Saint Joseph County, IN
• Aaltje Jonkerman, Winkel
• Anna Catharina HENDRICKX
• Alart ten KLEIJ, Beekbergen
• van Holstein († 1947)
• Adriana Groenendijk, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht († 1878)
• Aaltje Langendoen, Rockanje, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1929)
• Alphonsus Maria Coumans, Nederweert († 1958)

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• Albertus Willem Mattheus (49), Hengforden (Olst), Nederland
• Arendje Remken (0), Hollandscheveld (gem. Hoogeveen)
• Arie Suijker (55)
• Albertus Willem Mattheus (49), Olst (Hengvorden)
• Catharina Coppers (54), Schulen, België
• Aaltien Hendriks Kuik (84), Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland
• Amelia Vanclooster (71), Staden,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Anna Maria Hubertina Schoenmaekers (67), Druten
• Aaltien - Hendriks Kuik (84), Dedemsvaart {OV} (Hardenberg Ambt)

• 1866 » Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist († 1912)
• 1868 » Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic († 1918)
• 1877 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman († 1943)
• 1878 » Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player († 1963)
• 1878 » Grace Abbott, American social worker († 1939)
• 1886 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant († 1967)
• 1887 » Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal († 1976)
• 1891 » Lester Allen, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director († 1949)
• 1895 » Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author, and poet († 1966)
• 1896 » Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher († 1934)

• 1835 » Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (b. 1758)
• 1865 » James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)
• 1891 » José María Iglesias, Mexican politician and interim President (1876-1877) (b. 1823)
• 1897 » George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
• 1905 » Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 » Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
• 1922 » Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (b. 1862)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
• January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

The temperature on November 17, 1878 was about 4.2 °C. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.