This Day, That Year – November 17

Soichiro Honda was the founder and first CEO of the Honda Motor Company born on this day in 1906.

Did you know that:

• Emile Berliner was issued a patent for a combined telegraph and telephone on this day in 1891
• Daniel DeVito is an American actor and filmmaker born on this day in 1944
• Surveyor six became the first man-made object to lift off to the Moon on this day in 1967