TODAY IN HISTORY

On Nov. 17, 1869, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt.

In 1917, French sculptor Auguste Rodin died.

In 1973, President Richard Nixon told Associated

Press managing editors in Orlando, Florida: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

In 1989, the Walt Disney animated feature “The Little Mermaid” opened in wide release.

In 1997, 62 people were killed when militants opened fire at the Temple

of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt.

In 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th governor of California.

In 2020, President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top election security official, Christopher Krebs, who had refuted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.