January 17th Events |
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January 17th, 2038 (January 17 2038) | Event | Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. | |
January 17th, 2007 (January 17 2007) | Event | The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing. | |
January 17th, 2002 (January 17 2002) | Event | Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. | |
January 17th, 2001 (January 17 2001) | Event | President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis rank from Lieutenant to Captain. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
January 17th, 1998 (January 17 1998) | Event | Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
January 17th, 1997 (January 17 1997) | Event | A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad. | |
January 17th, 1996 (January 17 1996) | Event | The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union. | |
January 17th, 1995 (January 17 1995) | Event | The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people. | |
January 17th, 1994 (January 17 1994) | Event | 1994 Northridge Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California. | |
January 17th, 1991 (January 17 1991) | Event | Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation. | |
January 17th, 1991 (January 17 1991) | Event | Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V. | |
January 17th, 1989 (January 17 1989) | Event | Stockton massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life. | |
January 17th, 1985 (January 17 1985) | Event | British Telecom announces the retirement of the United Kingdom s red telephone boxes. | |
January 17th, 1982 (January 17 1982) | Event | "Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities. | |
January 17th, 1977 (January 17 1977) | Event | Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States. | |
January 17th, 1973 (January 17 1973) | Event | Ferdinand Marcos becomes "President for Life" of the Philippines. | |
January 17th, 1966 (January 17 1966) | Event | A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping four 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares hydrogen bombs incident. | |
January 17th, 1961 (January 17 1961) | Event | President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex". | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
January 17th, 1950 (January 17 1950) | Event | The Great Brinks Robbery11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company s offices in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
January 17th, 1949 (January 17 1949) | Event | The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs. | |
January 17th, 1946 (January 17 1946) | Event | The UN Security Council holds its first session. | |
January 17th, 1945 (January 17 1945) | Event | Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw. | |
January 17th, 1945 (January 17 1945) | Event | The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. | |
January 17th, 1945 (January 17 1945) | Event | Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody. | |
January 17th, 1941 (January 17 1941) | Event | Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-Shek open fire at communist forces, resuming the Chinese Civil War after World War II. | |
January 17th, 1929 (January 17 1929) | Event | Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip. | |
January 17th, 1917 (January 17 1917) | Event | The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands. | |
January 17th, 1913 (January 17 1913) | Event | Raymond Poincare is elected President of France. | |
January 17th, 1912 (January 17 1912) | Event | Sir Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. | Robert South Quotes |
January 17th, 1904 (January 17 1904) | Event | Anton Chekhov s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre. | |
January 17th, 1899 (January 17 1899) | Event | The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. | |
January 17th, 1893 (January 17 1893) | Event | The Citizen s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii. | |
January 17th, 1885 (January 17 1885) | Event | A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan. | |
January 17th, 1873 (January 17 1873) | Event | A group of Modoc warriors defeat the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War. | |
January 17th, 1852 (January 17 1852) | Event | The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal. | |
January 17th, 1799 (January 17 1799) | Event | Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots were executed. | |
January 17th, 1781 (January 17 1781) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Battle of CowpensContinental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina. | |
January 17th, 1773 (January 17 1773) | Event | Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle. | |
January 17th, 1648 (January 17 1648) | Event | England s Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. | |
January 17th, 1605 (January 17 1605) | Event | First publication of Don Quixote. | |
January 17th, 1595 (January 17 1595) | Event | Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. | |
January 17th, 1562 (January 17 1562) | Event | France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain. | |
January 17th, 1524 (January 17 1524) | Event | Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano s voyage to find a passage to China. | |
January 17th, 1377 (January 17 1377) | Event | Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. | |
January 17th, 1287 (January 17 1287) | Event | King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca. | |