Here's what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 17, according to Tribune archives.
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Weather records (from National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 74 degrees (1975)
- Low temperature: 3 degrees (1959)
- Precipitation: 1.43 inches (1892)
- Snowfall: 3.8 inches (1927)
1926: Chicago Blackhawks won the team's first hockey game against Toronto 4–1 at the new Chicago Coliseum rink in front of 7,000 fans. Proceeds from the game benefited the Junior League.
Pete Muldoon was the first Hawks coach in franchise history. Fired after one season, he reportedly said, “This team will never finish in first place,” a statement that later became known as “The Curse of Muldoon”
Now there are those who claim that this never happened, that Muldoon simply packed up his hockey stick and quietly left town. And yet the result of the team's second season in Chicago is just 7 wins in 44 games and finishing last in the league rankings led some to wonder if the curse was real. The Blackhawks won the first Stanley Cup in 1934.
1955: Process servers are hijacked Maria Callas outside her dressing room at the Civic Opera House after the soprano performed the final performance of the Lyric Opera season in Madama Butterfly. A group of managers said she owed them part of her salary.
Shut up flew to Milan, Italy.and told reporters: “I have the voice of an angel. No man can serve me.”
1984: Michael Jordan debuted the first of his signature sneaker line in a game against the Philadelphia 76ers. The red, black and white sneakers violated league policy, but Nike paid a fine for Jordan. Air Jordan I became available to the public in 1985.
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2004: Sears announced its merger with Kmart. The $11 billion deal created a new company, Sears Holdings Corp., which became the nation's third-largest retailer.
2013: During unusually warm stretch It was warm in late fall, 70 degrees. But by the end of the day, six people were dead in Illinois in one of the most devastating events. tornado outbreaks in the previous 50 years. The strongest blow was Washingtona city of 15,000 east of Peoria that was hit by an EF-4 tornado with wind speeds of 170 to 190 mph.
2016: Chicago Cubs third baseman Chris Bryant was named National League Most Valuable Player. Bryant received 29 of 30 first-place votes from the BBWAA for top Washington Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy and Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager.
Bryant hit .292 with 39 home runs and 102 RBIs and led the league in runs scored with 121, helping the Cubs end a 107-year championship drought.
“This year was definitely one of the best years of my life, winning the World Series, and now this is just icing on the cake,” Bryant joked during a conference call after learning of his honor. “It's all downhill from here.”
2017: Reverend Jesse Jackson announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Civil rights leader and founder of the Chicago Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. was recently hospitalizedthe latest in a series of health care setbacks in recent years.
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