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 Today's highlight in history:
On Nov. 17, 1800, Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
On this date:
In 1558, Elizabeth I acceded to the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary.
In 1869, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
In 1889, the Union Pacific Railroad Co. began direct, daily railroad service between Chicago and Portland, Ore., as well as Chicago and San Francisco.
In 1917, sculptor Auguste Rodin died in Meudon, France, at age 77.
In 1934, Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird," in San Antonio, Texas.
In 1962, Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by President Kennedy.
In 1970, the Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1.
In 1973, President Nixon told Associated Press Managing Editors meeting 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 female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
In 1987, a federal jury in Denver convicted two neo-Nazis and acquitted two others of civil rights violations in the 1984 slaying of radio talk show host Alan Berg.
Ten years ago: Sixty-two people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed when six militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt; the attackers were killed by police.
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 Five years ago: Abba Eban, 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.
One year ago: Cast into the minority in midterm elections, House Republicans chose John Boehner of Ohio to lead them. Ivan Hill was convicted in Los Angeles of being the "60 Freeway Slayer" of six women. The FDA ended a 14-year virtual ban on silicone-gel breast implants. Former "Seinfeld" star Michael Richards unleashed a barrage of racial epithets during a stand-up routine at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. College football coaching legend Bo Schembechler died in Southfield, Mich., at age 77. Grammy- and Tony-winning singer Ruth Brown died at age 78.
Today's birthdays: Singer Gordon Lightfoot is 69. Movie director Martin Scorsese is 65. Actress Lauren Hutton is 64. Actor-director Danny DeVito is 63. "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels is 63. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver is 63. Movie director Roland Joffe is 62. Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean is 59. Actor Stephen Root is 56. Actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is 49. Actor William Moses is 48. Entertainer RuPaul is 47. Actor Dylan Walsh is 44. Actress Sophie Marceau is 41. Actress-model Daisy Fuentes is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ronnie DeVoe (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe) is 40. Rock musician Ben Wilson (Blues Traveler) is 40. Rhythm-and-blues musician Jeff Allen (Mint Condition) is 39. Actress Leslie Bibb is 34. Actor Brandon Call is 31. Country singer Aaron Lines is 30. Actress Rachel McAdams is 29. Rock musician Isaac Hanson (Hanson) is 27. Actor Justin Cooper is 19. Actress Raquel Castro is 13.
Thought for today: "Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs."
-- William Allen White, American journalist (1868-1944).
[Associated Press]
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