Updated November 16, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Nov. 17, 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that “people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
On Nov. 17, 1901, Lee Strasberg, the director who pioneered the technique of “method acting”, was born. Following his death on Feb. 17, 1982, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1800 Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C., in the partially completed Capitol building. 1869 The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas. 1934 Lyndon B. Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as “Lady Bird.” 1962 Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., was dedicated. 1968 NBC outraged football fans by cutting away from the final minutes of a game to air a TV special, “Heidi,” on schedule. 1970 The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon. 1973 President Richard M. Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., “I’m not a crook.” 1997 Six militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 people, most of them foreign tourists. The attackers were killed by police. 2003 John Allen Muhammad was convicted of two counts of capital murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings. (He was later sentenced to death and executed.) 2003 Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California. 2008 The vampire romance movie “Twilight” premiered in Los Angeles. 2010 A hand-count of votes affirmed the re-election of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the first Senate candidate in over 50 years to win a write-in campaign. 2010 The first Guantanamo detainee to face civilian trial, Ahmed Ghailani, was convicted by federal jury in New York on one charge of conspiracy related to 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Ghailani’s native Tanzania. Current Birthdays
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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, turns 63 years old today.
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Actor Danny DeVito turns 68 years old today.
AP Photo/Kai Uwe Knoth
1934 James Inhofe, U.S. senator, R-Okla., turns 78 1938 Gordon Lightfoot, Singer, turns 74 1942 Martin Scorsese, Director, turns 70 1943 Lauren Hutton, Actress, turns 69 1944 Jim Boeheim, College basketball coach, turns 68 1944 Lorne Michaels, TV producer (“Saturday Night Live”), turns 68 1944 Tom Seaver, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 68 1945 Elvin Hayes, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 67 1948 Howard Dean, Former governor of Vermont, turns 64 1951 Stephen Root, Actor (“NewsRadio,” “Office Space”), turns 61 1958 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Actress, turns 54 1960 RuPaul, Entertainer, turns 52 1961 Patrick Toomey, U.S. senator, R-Pa., turns 51 1966 Daisy Fuentes, Actress, model, turns 46 1978 Rachel McAdams, Actress (“The Notebook,” “Mean Girls”), turns 34 1978 Reggie Wayne, Football player, turns 34 1980 Isaac Hanson, Rock musician (Hanson), turns 32 1983 Ryan Braun, Baseball player, turns 29 Historic Birthdays
Lee Strasberg 11/17/1901 – 2/17/1982 American film director. Go to obituary »
69 Angelo Bronzino 11/17/1503 – 11/23/1572
Italian painter91 Joost van den Vondel 11/17/1587 – 2/5/1679
Dutch poet64 Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye 11/17/1685 – 12/5/1749
French-Canadian soldier, fur trader and explorer68 Louis XVIII 11/17/1755 – 9/16/1824
French king (1814-24)71 Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes 11/17/1895 – 12/10/1966
Mexican novelist84 Isamu Noguchi 11/17/1904 – 12/30/1988
American sculptor61 Mischa Auer 11/17/1905 – 3/5/1967
American actor59 Rock Hudson 11/17/1925 – 10/2/1985
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