TODAY IN HISTORY

Thursday, November  17, 2011 AP Highlight in History:  On Nov. 17, 1558, Elizabeth I ascended to the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary.
On this date in: 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." AP Photo 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." President Nixon 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. 1998 Israel's parliament overwhelmingly approved the Wye River land-for-peace accord with the Palestinians. 2000 The Florida Supreme Court froze the state's presidential tally, forbidding Secretary of State Katherine Harris to certify results of the marathon vote count. 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. 2005 A jury in Sarasota, Fla., convicted mechanic Joseph Smith of kidnapping, raping and strangling 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, whose abduction had been captured by a car-wash security camera. 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 just one charge of conspiracy, among over 280 counts related to 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Ghailani's native Tanzania.		Video Highlights of This Day in History Today's Birthdays: Actor Danny DeVito turns 67 years old today. AP Photo/Kai Uwe Knoth Name Profession Age James Inhofe U.S. senator, R-Okla. 77 Gordon Lightfoot Singer 73 Martin Scorsese Director 69 Lauren Hutton Actress 68 Jim Boeheim College basketball coach 67 Lorne Michaels TV producer ("Saturday Night Live") 67 Tom Seaver Baseball Hall of Famer 67 Elvin Hayes Basketball Hall of Famer 66 Terry Branstad Governor of Iowa 65 Howard Dean Former governor of Vermont 63 Stephen Root Actor ("NewsRadio," "Office Space") 60 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Actress 53 RuPaul Entertainer 51 Patrick Toomey U.S. senator, R-Pa. 50 Daisy Fuentes Actress, model 45 Rachel McAdams Actress ("The Notebook," "Mean Girls") 33 Reggie Wayne Football player 33 Isaac Hanson Rock musician (Hanson) 31 Ryan Braun Baseball player 28 House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, turns 62 years old today.