Today in History: November 17, Arnold Schwarzenegger sworn in as California governor

Today is Sunday, Nov. 17, the 322nd time of 2024. There are 44 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Nov. 17, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born histrion who had go 1 of America’s biggest movie stars of the 1980s and ’90s, was sworn successful arsenic the 38th politician of California.

Also connected this date:

In 1800, Congress held its archetypal league successful the partially completed U.S. Capitol gathering successful Washington, D.C.

In 1869, the Suez Canal opened successful Egypt.

In 1973, President Richard Nixon told a gathering of Associated Press managing editors astatine a televised quality league successful Orlando, Florida: “People person got to cognize whether oregon not their president is simply a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

In 1968, the past minutes of a tense NFL matchup connected NBC betwixt the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders were preempted by the children’s movie “Heidi.” The web received thousands of calls from aggravated viewers and formally apologized.

In 1989, an estimated 10,000-15,000 Czechoslovakian students demonstrated successful Prague against Communist rule; hundreds of thousands joined the protests successful the pursuing days. Dubbed the “Velvet Revolution” for its nonviolent nature, the protests led to the resignation of the Communist Party’s enactment connected Nov. 28.

In 1997, 62 people, astir of them overseas tourists, were killed erstwhile militants opened occurrence astatine the Temple of Hatshepsut (haht-shehp-SOOT’) successful Luxor, Egypt; the attackers were killed by police.

In 2020, President Donald Trump fired the nation’s apical predetermination information official, Christopher Krebs, who had refuted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Film manager Martin Scorsese (skor-SEH’-see) is 82.
• Actor-model Lauren Hutton is 81.
• Actor-director Danny DeVito is 80.
• Basketball Hall of Fame manager Jim Boeheim is 80.
• “Saturday Night Live” shaper Lorne Michaels is 80.
• Basketball Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes is 79.
• Film manager Roland Joffe is 79.
• Former House Speaker John Boehner (BAY’-nur) is 75.
• Actor Stephen Root is 73.
• TV host-entertainer RuPaul is 64.
• Actor Dylan Walsh is 61.
• TV host-model Daisy Fuentes is 58.
• R&B vocalist Ronnie DeVoe (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe) is 57.
• Actor Rachel McAdams is 46.