Today in History: November 17, the NFL’s infamous ‘Heidi Game’

The present day is Monday Nov the st day of There are days left in the year This day in history On Nov the last minutes of a tense NFL matchup on NBC between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders were preempted by the children s film Heidi The setup received thousands of calls from angry viewers and formally apologized Also on this date In Congress held its first session in the partially completed U S Capitol building in Washington D C Related Articles Epstein vote looms over House US aircraft carrier arrives in the Caribbean Ford unveils new high-tech HQ Massachusetts out-of-state SNAP spending soars including in Hawaii In the present day in History November Pakistan elects first woman prime minister In the Suez Canal opened in Egypt In President Richard Nixon narrated a gathering of Associated Press managing editors at a televised news conference in Orlando Florida People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook Well I m not a crook In an estimated - Czechoslovakian students demonstrated in Prague against Communist rule hundreds of thousands joined the protests in the following days Dubbed the Velvet Revolution for its nonviolent nature the protests led to the resignation of the Communist Party s leadership on Nov that year In people the majority of them foreign tourists were killed when militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut haht-shehp-SOOT in Luxor Egypt the attackers were killed by police In Arnold Schwarzenegger the Austrian-born actor who had become one of America s biggest movie stars of the s and s was sworn in as the th governor of California In President Donald Trump fired the nation s top electoral process guard official Christopher Krebs who had refuted Trump s unsubstantiated alleges of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote In the current era s Birthdays Film director Martin Scorsese skor-SEH -see is Actor-model Lauren Hutton is Actor-director Danny DeVito is Basketball Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim is Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels is Basketball Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes is Film director Roland Joffe is Actor Stephen Root is TV host-entertainer RuPaul is Actor Dylan Walsh is TV host-model Daisy Fuentes is R B singer Ronnie DeVoe New Edition Bell Biv DeVoe is Actor Rachel McAdams is