📜 This Day in History

November 17

• 1292John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus.
• 1796French Revolutionary Wars: French forces won the Battle of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the Austrians' line of retreat.
• 1941World War II: Hjalmar Siilasvuo ordered Finnish forces to halt their assault against Soviet forces near Salla, concluding Operation Arctic Fox.
• 1968NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
• 1997Sixty-two people were killed by Islamist terrorists outside Deir el-Bahari in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
• 2013Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all 50 people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.

Born on this day

• 1902Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
• 1942Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
• 1952Cyril Ramaphosa, South African businessman and politician, fifth President of South Africa
• 1978Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress