HISTORY At A Glance

TODAY is Thursday, November 17, the 321st day of 2022. There are 44 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1972 Argentine ex-president Juan Peron arrived in Buenos Aires after 17 years of exile.

1973 Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook.”

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 Dec 29).

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.

1993 In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.

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).

2000 Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

2012 At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.

2013 Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.