Three things in the atlas are tied to this date. Each is placed here by a source that gives the day.
From November 1896, hundreds of people in Sacramento, San Francisco and Oakland reported a light or an airship overhead at night, and newspapers spread the reports.
On 17 November 1981, scaffolding collapsed during the Manila Film Center's rushed construction and workers died. The death toll is disputed, and a legend grew that bodies were left in the concrete and haunt the building.
In November 1986, the crew of a Japan Air Lines cargo jet flying over Alaska toward Anchorage reported unidentified objects pacing their aircraft.