Today in History for 17th November 2022

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Historical Events

1853 - Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1928 - Boston Garden officially opens
1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
1973 - Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
1980 - WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station
1982 - Dale Murphy wins NL MVP

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Famous Birthdays

1917 - Jack Lescoulie, American TV host (Jackie Gleason Show), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1987)
1963 - Pedro Luis Estrada, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Brooklyn, New York
1965 - Grant Connell, Canadian tennis player who was the world's #1 doubles player in the 1990s, born in Regina Saskatchewan
1966 - Daisy Fuentes, model/MTV veejay (America's Funniest Videos)
1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician and singer ("Hallelujah"), Anaheim, California (d. 1997)
1980 - [Clarke] Isaac Hanson, American pop singer and guitarist (Hanson - "MMMbop"), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Famous Deaths

1512 - Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered
1770 - Gian Francesco de Majo, Italian composer, dies at 38
1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912), dies at 75
1986 - Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American atomic physicist and Nobel laureate (electron scattering in atomic nuclei), dies at 75
2017 - Earle Hyman, American stage and screen actor (The Cosby Show - "Russell Huxtable"; ThunderCats; Coriolanus), dies at 91

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