Births on November 17

Glen Air

Born on November 17, 1978

Glen Air, Australian rugby league player

Glen Air (born 17 November 1975 in Bulli, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. His usual position was as at halfback and he could also operate at five-eighth.

He attended Bulli High School in New South Wales and from there represented Australia at schoolboy level in 1991. Air went on to play for the Illawarra Steelers and the Wests Tigers in Australia. In the Super League he played for the London Broncos.

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Events on 1978

11 Feb

Aristotle
Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
27 Apr

Watergate scandal
Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
25 Jul

In vitro fertilisation
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
22 Oct

Pope John Paul II
Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
18 Nov

Jim Jones
In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

Births on November 17

Glen Air

Born on November 17, 1978

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Events on 1978

Aristotle

Watergate scandal

In vitro fertilisation

Pope John Paul II

Jim Jones