November 17

November 17 is known in checkiday.com as "The Little Mermaid Day".

Births

 * 1905 - Mischa Auer (actor)
 * 1907 - Les Clark (animator)
 * 1925 - Walter Peregoy (artist, colour stylist and background artist)
 * 1928 - Rance Howard (actor)
 * 1942 - Martin Scorsese (director, producer, actor, and comedian)
 * 1944
 * Danny DeVito (live-action/voice actor, comedian, director, producer and filmmaker)
 * Gary Goldman (film producer, director, animator, screenwriter, writer and voice actor)
 * 1947 - Will Vinton (animator)
 * 1949 - Jon Avnet (director, producer, and screenwriter)
 * 1951 - Stephen Root (live-action/voice actor and comedian)
 * 1960 - RuPaul (actor, drag queen, model, author, and singer)
 * 1964 - Ralph Garman (live-action/voice actor, comedian, and TV & radio host)
 * 1965 - Darryl Kurylo (voice actor)
 * 1966 - Thomas McHugh (live-action/voice actor)
 * 1967 - John Kennedy (puppeteer and puppet builder)
 * 1974
 * Leslie Bibb (actress)
 * Sarah Paulson (same as above)
 * 1976 - Brian T. Delaney (live-action/voice actor)
 * 1978
 * Rachel McAdams (actress)
 * Tom Ellis (actor)
 * 1990 - Shanica Knowles (actress and singer)

Deaths

 * 1985 - Jimmy Ritz (comedian)
 * 1989 - Billy Lee (child actor and singer)
 * 2012 - Bonnie Lynn Fields (actress and Mouseketeer)
 * 2014 - Rokurō Naya (voice actor)
 * 2016 - Steve Truglia (stuntman)
 * 2017 - Rikard Wolff (live-action/voice actor and singer)

Shorts

 * 1934 - The Dognapper

Television

 * 1985 - The Disney Channel Premiere Film, The Blue Yonder premieres on Disney Channel.
 * 1987 - The DuckTales episode "Ducks of the West" premieres in syndication.
 * 1989 - The DuckTales episode "The Masked Mallard" and the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "When Mice Were Men" premiere in syndication.
 * 1993 - The Bonkers episode "The Dimming" premieres in syndication.
 * 1994 - The Aladdin episode "Night of the Living Mud" premieres in syndication.
 * 1995 - The Timon & Pumbaa episode "Back Out in the Outback"/"Gabon with the Wind" and the Bill Nye the Science Guy episode "Marine Mammals" premiere in syndication.
 * 1996 - The Brotherly Love episode "Downtown Girl" premieres on The WB.
 * 1997
 * The Bear in the Big Blue House episode "A Plant Grows in Bear's House" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
 * 101 Dalmatians: The Series premieres in syndication with the episode "The Good-bye Chick".
 * 2000 - The Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "Revenge of the Raenoks" premieres on UPN and in syndication.
 * 2003 - Lilo & Stitch: The Series premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "Elastico".
 * 2009 - My Friends Tigger & Pooh premieres on Playhouse Disney with the episode "Roo's Pebble in the Pond/Darby's Super Sleuth Surprise".
 * 2015
 * The Evermoor Chronicles episode "Drifty" premieres on Disney Channel.
 * The Muppets episode "Too Hot to Handler" premieres on ABC.
 * 2017
 *  The Punisher  premieres on Netflix.
 * The Once Upon a Time episodes "Eloise Gardener" and "Pretty in Blue" premiere on ABC.

Movies

 * 1989 - Disney's The Little Mermaid and MGM & Don Bluth's All Dogs Go To Heaven was released on the same day, but Ariel and her friends stand out as the 1989 Box Office winner.
 * 2000 - Universal Studios' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

VHS & DVD Releases

 * 1998 - An All Dogs Christmas Carol

Video games

 * 2009
 * The Just Dance Series had begun in North America with the original game released only for the Wii.
 *  The Princess and the Frog  is released for Wii and Nintendo DS.
 * 2017 - Star Wars Battlefront II

Books

 * 2010 - The Art of Tangled

Disney's Theme park happenings

 * 2011 - Toy Story Land opens at Hong Kong Disneyland.
 * 2015 - Mickey and the Wondrous Book will premiere in the Storybook Theater at Hong Kong Disneyland.