| | | | On This Day in History | November 17 |
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1558 Elizabeth I, aged 25, ascends the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I |
1831 Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Gran Colombia |
1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe |
1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking the Mediterranean and Red seas |
 | The last Ottoman sultan, Mehmed VI, departs his palace in Istanbul after the abolition of the monarchy |
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1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship |
1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse |
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Also Danny DeVito (80) and RuPaul (64) |
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Queen Mary I, the first woman to rule England in her own right, lost respect and was called Bloody Mary by burning hundreds of religious opponents at the stake. |
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