On this day — November 17

Hubei Province, China.

Russia.

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 seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.

Egypt.

It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.

Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.

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).

President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."