What happened On This Day in History?!

Gunners & Ali - On This Day

Friday, 17 November 2023 - 2 minutes

On This Day... 

  • The Suez Canal in Egypt was formally opened after 10 years of construction in 1869.
  • The first Computer Mouse was patented in 1970 by Douglas Englebert.
  • Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical Sunset Boulevard debuted on Broadway in 1994.
  • David Dicks was the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe in 1996
  • Gloria Jeans Coffee opened its first Australian store in Sydney in 1996.

Source: YouTube/Broadwaycom

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