Today is Saturday, November 17, the 321st day of 2018. There are 44 days left in the year.
1558 — Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
1796 — Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I’s French forces beat Austrians in Italy
1842 — Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston
1842 — The opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
1853 — Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1875 — Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott
1934 — Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
1937 — Britain’s Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
1938 — Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws