This is our day guide for Thursday November 17th 2016 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?
Holidays on November 17th 2016
International: Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day
Commemorating the student demonstration against Nazi occupation in 1939, and especially the demonstration in 1989 in Prague considered to mark the beginning of the Velvet RevolutionNot a Public Holiday
India (regional): Kanakadasa Jayanthi
This public holiday in Karnataka marks the birthday of the great poet and saint shri Kanaka DasaGo to Today | November 18th 2016
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| General Information for November 17th 2016 | |
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| There are 2 public holidays today. | |
| Day 322 of 2016 | |
| 44 days left in 2016 | |
| Week 46 of the year | |
| On this Day in History | |
| 1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut. It becomes known as the Luxor Massacre. The police kill the six assailants. | |
| 1919 - King George V of the UK proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day) as 11 November. The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey. | |
| 1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe. | |
| 1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. |
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