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Movie events on the 17th November
Elizabeth I crowned Queen. (England) (Elizabeth)
Mary I dies. (England) (Elizabeth)
Bernard Law Montgomery is born. (London, England) (Patton)
A battalion from the 1st Cavalry Division is ambushed by the 8th Battalion of the North Vietnamese 66th Regiment. (Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam) (We Were Soldiers)
The court-martial of 1st Lt. William Calley begins. (Pinkville)
Wealthy socialite Barbara Baekeland is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife by her 25-year-old son, Antony, in her penthouse. (London, England) (Savage Grace)
Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors that he is "not a crook." (Orlando, Florida) (Nixon)