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Events on November 17

• 1846 Carl Zeiss opens a precision mechanics and optics workshop in Jena, from which the eponymous company grows.
• 1869 The Egyptian viceroy Ismail Pasha ceremonially opens the Suez Canal in the presence of numerous European princes.
• 1881 Imperial Chancellor Bismarck reads an Imperial Message aloud at the opening of the 5th Reichstag, which initiates German social legislation.
• 1939 In the Prague Special Operation, the Nazis close all institutions of the Czech higher education system in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The police shoot nine students suspected of being ringleaders during demonstrations.
• 1963 The world's highest pier bridge (785 m long, 180 m high) is opened south of Innsbruck in Tyrol as part of the opening of the Brenner Motorway and is given the name Europabrücke.
• 1970 The American inventor Douglas C. Engelbart is granted a patent for the first computer mouse.
• 1976 An open letter sets off a wave of protest by East German cultural workers against Biermann's denaturalization.
• 1989 In Czechoslovakia, the Velvet Revolution begins with a student demonstration in Prague against the policy of Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec.
• 1989 The Ministry for State Security in the GDR is renamed the Office for National Security (AfNS). Erich Mielke's former deputy, Wolfgang Schwanitz, becomes its head.
• 1993 The German national football team wins 2:1 against Brazil in Cologne. It is Lothar Matthäus's 104th international match, in which he thereby overtakes Franz Beckenbauer as the DFB's record national-team player.
• 1999 It becomes known that nandrolone was found in two urine samples from the German long-distance runner Dieter Baumann. The toothpaste affair begins, because the athlete, who denies doping, proves the presence of the anabolic agent in his toothpaste tubes.
• 2015 The European Union invokes the mutual-assistance clause in response to the terrorist attacks on 13 November in Paris.

Born on November 17

• 1901 Walter Hallstein, German jurist and politician
• 1901 Lee Strasberg, Austro-Hungarian-American actor and acting teacher
• 1911 Heli Finkenzeller, German actress
• 1920 Ellis Kaut, German children's book author
• 1930 Karl Merkatz, Austrian actor
• 1942 Martin Scorsese, American director
• 1950 Roland Matthes, German swimmer
• 1960 RuPaul, American actor, singer, songwriter and drag queen
• 1970 Silvana Koch-Mehrin, German politician and business consultant
• 1994 Benno Schmitz, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „17. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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