November 17

1863 – Abraham Lincoln begins first draft of his Gettysburg Address.

1869 – Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas.

1894 – Serial killer HH Holmes is arrested in Boston after being tracked there from Philadelphia by the Pinkertons.

1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on British warship.

1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.