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November 17th, 2006	Event	Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
November 17th, 2005	Event	Italy s choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
November 17th, 2004	Event	Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
November 17th, 2003	Event	Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated as Governor of California.
November 17th, 2000	Event	A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
November 17th, 2000	Event	Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
November 17th, 1997	Event	In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
November 17th, 1990	Event	Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
November 17th, 1989	Event	Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
November 17th, 1983	Event	The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.

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