Today in History: November 17, the NFL’s infamous ‘Heidi Game’
In the current era is Monday Nov the st day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On Nov the last minutes of a tense NFL matchup on NBC between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders were preempted by the children s film Heidi The configuration received thousands of calls from angry viewers and formally apologized Also on this date In Congress held its first session in the partially completed U S Capitol building in Washington D C Related Articles Immigration crackdown inspires uniquely Chicago pushback that s now a model for other cities In current times in History November Pakistan elects first woman prime minister Disability rights activist author Alice Wong dies at Suspected Haitian gang members exchange fire with Marines protecting US Embassy in Port-au-Prince MAGA rift grows as Trump feuds with Greene before key midterm elections In the Suez Canal opened in Egypt In President Richard Nixon notified a gathering of Associated Press managing editors at a televised news conference in Orlando Florida People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook Well I m not a crook In an estimated - Czechoslovakian students demonstrated in Prague against Communist rule hundreds of thousands joined the protests in the following days Dubbed the Velvet Revolution for its nonviolent nature the protests led to the resignation of the Communist Party s leadership on Nov that year In people the greater part of them foreign tourists were killed when militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut haht-shehp-SOOT in Luxor Egypt the attackers were killed by police In Arnold Schwarzenegger the Austrian-born actor who had become one of America s biggest movie stars of the s and s was sworn in as the th governor of California In President Donald Trump fired the nation s top ballot guard official Christopher Krebs who had refuted Trump s unsubstantiated insists of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote In contemporary times s Birthdays Film director Martin Scorsese skor-SEH -see is Actor-model Lauren Hutton is Actor-director Danny DeVito is Basketball Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim is Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels is Basketball Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes is Film director Roland Joffe is Actor Stephen Root is TV host-entertainer RuPaul is Actor Dylan Walsh is TV host-model Daisy Fuentes is R B singer Ronnie DeVoe New Edition Bell Biv DeVoe is Actor Rachel McAdams is
