1. Four things that happened on
November 17
By: Sam McGrath

2. 1863
• Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg
Address

3. 1959
• Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie
of Year

4. 2012
• 50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed
after a train collides with a school bus in
Manfalut, Egypt