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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Nov. 17, 1962, Washington Dulles International Airport was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy.
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• On this date:
• In 1558, Elizabeth I acceded to the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary.
• In 1800, Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
• In 1869, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
• In 1911, the African-American fraternity Omega Psi Phi was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
• In 1917, French sculptor Auguste Rodin (roh-DAN') died in Meudon at age 77.
• In 1934, Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as Lady Bird, in San Antonio, Texas.
• In 1962, the musical comedy "Little Me," starring Sid Caesar in seven roles, opened on Broadway.
• In 1969, the first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union opened in Helsinki, Finland.
• In 1973, President Richard Nixon told Associated Press managing editors in Orlando, Fla.: "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
• In 1979, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 black and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
• In 1987, a federal jury in Denver convicted two white supremacists of civil rights violations in the 1984 slaying of radio talk show host Alan Berg. (Both men later died in prison.)
• In 1997, 62 people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed when militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt; the attackers were killed by police.
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• Ten years ago: Abba Eban (AH'-bah EE'-ban), the statesman who helped persuade the world to approve creation of Israel and dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades, died near Tel Aviv; he was 87.
• Five years ago: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (neh-groh-PAHN'-tee) delivered a blunt message to Pakistan's military ruler, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf (pur-VEHZ' moo-SHAH'-ruhv), telling him emergency rule had to be lifted and his opponents freed ahead of elections. A Nobel-winning U.N. scientific

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