This day in history
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Sunday, 16 November 2014
On this day... November 17
On this day...
November 17
1292
–
John Balliol
was chosen to be
King of Scots
over
Robert de Brus
.
1839
–
Giuseppe Verdi
's first opera
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio
, was first performed at the
Teatro alla Scala
in
Milan
.
1950
– Tenzin Gyatso, the
14th Dalai Lama
(pictured)
, was enthroned as
Tibet
's head of state at the age of fifteen.
1993
– General
Sani Abacha
ousted
Ernest Shonekan
to become chairman of the
Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria
.
2009
– Administrators at the
Climatic Research Unit
at the
University of East Anglia
discovered that their servers had been
hacked
and thousands of emails and files on
climate change
had been stolen
.
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