Nov. 17, Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse

1930 – British mandate for Palestine was discussed at the British House of Commons.
1933 – Russia and USA establish diplomatic relations.

1947 – American physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain set the basic principles of the Transistor, the fundamental building block of modern electronic revolution at the 20th century.

1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

1997 – Luxor massacre in Egypt happened as six gunmen attacked a group of terrorists with weapons and knives, killing 58 tourists.

1902 – Hungarian physicist and Noble-laureate Eugene Paul Wigner was born.

2000- French physicist and Noble-laureate Louis Neel passes away.
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