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This day in history: November 17

1. 1950

   The 14th Dalai Lama assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of 15.

2. 1968

   NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.

3. 1989

   Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres, beginning the Disney Renaissance.

4. 1997

   Sixty-two people were killed by Islamist terrorists outside Deir el-Bahari in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.

5. 2009

   Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked, and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.

6. 2013

   An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indiana.

7. 2013

   Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all 50 people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.

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