17 November
17 November
November 14 – 1716 CE – Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher and Mathematician, Dies in Hannover
*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons If the Germans were looking for their own Renaissance man to compete with the likes of Britain’s Sir Isaac Newton, it is unlikely they would look…
November 17th 1869 CE – The Suez Canal is Opened
*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Nearly 4,000 years after Pharaoh Senausert III dug the first waterway to link the Mediterranean and Red Seas, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt on November…
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