[quote="Yahoo.co.uk"]November 17th
��� Actor Justin Cooper is 14.
��� Rock musician Isaac Hanson (Hanson) is 22.
��� Actor Brandon Call is 26.
��� Actress Leslie Bibb is 29.
��� Rhythm-and-blues musician Jeff Allen (Mint Condition) is 34.
��� Rhythm-and-blues singer Ronnie DeVoe (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe) is 35.
��� Actress-model Daisy Fuentes is 36.
��� Actress Sophie Marceau is 36.
��� Actor Dylan Walsh is 39.
��� Entertainer RuPaul is 42.
��� Actor William Moses is 43.
��� Actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is 44.
��� Actress-producer-director Yolanda King is 47.
��� Actor Stephen Root is 51.
��� Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is 54.
��� Movie director Roland Joffe is 57.
��� Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver is 58.
��� "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels is 58.
��� Actor-director Danny DeVito is 58.
��� Actress Lauren Hutton is 59.
��� Movie director Martin Scorsese is 60.
��� Singer Gordon Lightfoot is 64.
�� Olympian-turned-politician Bob Mathias is 72.
This Day in HistoryOn Nov. 17, 1800, Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
On this date:
[/b]In 1558,[/b] Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary.
In 1869, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
In 1917, sculptor Auguste Rodin died in Meudon, France.
In 1925, actor Rock Hudson was born in Winnetka, Ill.
In 1934, Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird."
In 1962, Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by President Kennedy.
In 1968, NBC TV outraged football fans by cutting away from the closing minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. (Viewers were deprived of seeing the Raiders come from behind to beat the Jets, 43-32.)
In 1970, the Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod I.
In 1973, President Nixon told Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
In 1979, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Ten years ago: Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Hank Brown of Colorado made an unprecedented tour of Vietnam's military headquarters, but found nothing to substantiate reports of American prisoners sighted there after the Vietnam War.
Five years ago: Sixty-two people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed when six militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt; the attackers were killed by police.
One year ago: The Taliban confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden's military chief Mohammed Atef in an airstrike three days earlier. Burhanuddin Rabbani, the Afghan president ousted five years earlier by the Taliban, returned to the capital Kabul. Lennox Lewis knocked out Hasim Rahman in the fourth round to get back his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles. Former U.S. Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., whose political career was ended by the Abscam bribery scandal, died in Denville, N.J., at age 81.[/quote]