| 130711 | November 17 | Event | 1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre. |
| 130712 | November 17 | Event | 1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. |
| 130713 | November 17 | Event | 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook." |
| 130714 | November 17 | Event | 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. |
| 130715 | November 17 | Event | 1979 – Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned. |
| 130716 | November 17 | Event | 1982 – Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing. |
| 130717 | November 17 | Event | 1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. |
| 130718 | November 17 | Event | 1988 – The National Revival Day - in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, a demonstration starts against the Soviets, the perceived ignorance of the inflaming tension around Nagorno-Karabakh. The demonstration forcibly dispersed 17 days later would become the largest of |
| 130719 | November 17 | Event | 1989 – 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). |
| 130720 | November 17 | Event | 1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts. |
| 130721 | November 17 | Event | 1993 – United States House of Representatives passes resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement after greater authority in trade negotiations was granted to President George Bush in 1991. |
| 130722 | November 17 | Event | 1993 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. |
| 130723 | November 17 | Event | 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants). |
| 130724 | November 17 | Event | 2000 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. |
| 130725 | November 17 | Event | 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. |
| 130726 | November 17 | Event | 2012 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. |
| 130727 | November 17 | Event | 2013 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. |
| 130728 | November 17 | Event | 2013 – A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including sev |
| 130729 | November 17 | Birth | 9 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (d. 79) |
| 130730 | November 17 | Birth | 1503 – Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572) |
| 130731 | November 17 | Birth | 1576 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and saint (d. 1628) |
| 130732 | November 17 | Birth | 1587 – Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1679) |
| 130733 | November 17 | Birth | 1612 – Dorgon, Manchu son of Nurhaci (d. 1650) |
| 130734 | November 17 | Birth | 1681 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian and author (d. 1776) |
| 130735 | November 17 | Birth | 1685 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (d. 1749) |
| 130736 | November 17 | Birth | 1729 – Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (d. 1785) |
| 130737 | November 17 | Birth | 1749 – Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning (d. 1841) |
| 130738 | November 17 | Birth | 1753 – Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (d. 1815) |
| 130739 | November 17 | Birth | 1755 – Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824) |
| 130740 | November 17 | Birth | 1765 – Jacques MacDonald, French general (d. 1840) |