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The Really Small Bad Day Almanac: Nov. 17

887: Charles the Fat, king of the East Franks in what is now present-day western Germany, is deposed.
1603: English explorer Walter Raleigh stands trial for treason.
1810: Sweden declares war on Great Britain, but the two nations never actually fight each other.
1917: French sculptor Auguste Rodin dies.
2012: More than 50 children die in a train-crossing accident near Manfalut, Egypt.

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