Today in History - November 17

Please listen carefully, fill in the blanks and get to know each event.

Difficulties: 

1.      November 17th, 1973

Event: ____________________________
An embattled President Richard Nixon ______ himself during the _______________. He tells the Associated Press ______________ meeting in Orlando, Florida. 
“People have got to know, whether or not their president is a crook. Well I am not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.” 
But Nixon _______ the following year when the Watergate scandal forces him from office.

2.      1558

Event: ________________________________

Elizabeth I begins __________________ reign as Queen of England, ascending the _______ after her _________ Queen Mary dies. Under what’s known as the ____________, England flourishes on the world stage, from _______________ to _________________ to the works of William Shakespeare.

3.     1869

Event: ____________________________

In _______, the ___________ opens, a vital _________ connecting the ______________ and Red Seas.

4.      1800

Event: _______________________________

The U.S. Congress holds its first ________ in Washington D.C.in the partially completed ____________.

5.      1917

Event: ____________________________________

________ Auguste Rodin, whose best-known works include ___________ and The Kiss, dies in France. He was 77 years old.

6.      And 1942

Event: ___________________________________

“Whether I like it or not, I actually end the movies I’ve made, for better for worse; however, people understand them that who I am, that’s all I really can be.”

Movie director Martin Scorsese is born in ____________. Among his films, Taxi Drivers, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, and ____________.

Today in History, November 17th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

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