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January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 348 days remaining (349 in leap years ).
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 1562 - France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain .
1648 - England 's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Address , breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War .
1781 - American Revolutionary War : Battle of Cowpens - Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina .
1819 - Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Colombia .
1852 - United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal .
1873 - First Battle of the Stronghold in the US Modoc War .
1885 - A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan .
1893 - The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety , led by Lorrin A. Thurston overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii .
1899 - The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean .
1912 - Sir Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) reaches the South Pole , one month after Roald Amundsen .
1916 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed.
1917 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands .
1929 - Popeye the Sailor Man , a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar , first appears in the Comic Strip Thimble Theatre .
1941 - Kuomintang forces under the order of Chiang Kai-Shek opened fire at communist force, Chinese Civil War resumes after WWII .
1945 - Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw .
1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
1946 - The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1949 - The Goldbergs sitcom on American television , first airs.
1950 - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts .
1961 - U.S. 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."
1966 - 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.
1973 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes "President for Life" of the Philippines .
1977 - Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah , ending a ten-year moratorium on the death penalty in the United States .
1982 - "Cold Sunday" in the United States sees temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1985 - British Telecom announces the retirement of the United Kingdom 's famous red telephone boxes .
1991 - Gulf War : Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1991 - Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V .
1994 - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California ; see 1994 Northridge Earthquake .
1995 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake (known as "the Great Hanshin earthquake ") hits near Kobe, Japan , causing extensive property damage and killing 6,433 people.
1996 - The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union .
1997 - A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad. [1]
1998 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment .
2001 - President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Captain Meriwether Lewis ' rank from Lieutenant to Captain .
2002 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2005 - Major accident of collision of two trains in Bangkok.
2007 - Football match between Orlando Pirates and Black Leopards ends in injuries after after ad sign mishap
2007 Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight
Births 1463 - Friedrich III , Elector of Saxony (d. 1525 )
1484 - George Spalatin , German reformer (d. 1545 )
1501 - Leonhart Fuchs , German physician and botanist (d. 1566 )
1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572 )
1560 - Gaspard Bauhin , Swiss botanist (d. 1624 )
1600 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca , Spanish playwright (d. 1681 )
1612 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron , English Civil War general (d. 1671 )
1686 - Archibald Bower , Scottish historian (d. 1766 )
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790 )
1712 - John Stanley , English composer (d. 1786 )
1719 - William Vernon , American merchant (d. 1806 )
1761 - James Hall , Scottish geologist (d. 1832 )
1763 - John Jacob Astor , American entrepreneur (d. 1848 )
1789 - August Neander , German theologian (d. 1850 )
1820 - Anne Brontë , British author (d. 1849 )
1828 - Lewis A. Grant , American Civil War General (d. 1918 )
1832 - Henry Martyn Baird , American educationalist (d. 1906 )
1851 - A. B. Frost , American illustrator (d. 1928 )
1853 - Alva Belmont , American socialite (d. 1933 )
1858 - Tomás Carrasquilla , Colombian writer(d. 1940 )
1860 - Douglas Hyde , President of Ireland (d. 1949 )
1863 - David Lloyd George , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945 )
1867 - Carl Laemmle , German-born film executive (d. 1939 )
1871 - David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936 )
1871 - Nicolae Iorga , Romanian writer (d. 1940 )
1880 - Mack Sennett , Canadian film director (d. 1960 )
1881 - Antoni Łomnicki , Polish mathematician (d. 1941 )
1882 - Noah Beery , American actor (d. 1946 )
1886 - Glenn L. Martin , American aviation pioneer (d. 1955 )
1899 - Al Capone , American gangster (d. 1947 )
1899 - Nevil Shute , English author (d. 1960 )
1903 - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala , Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953 )
1905 - Guillermo Stábile , Argentine footballer (d. 1966 )
1905 - Peggy Gilbert , American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007 )
1905 - Ray Cunningham , American baseball player (d. 2005 )
1908 - Cus D'Amato , American boxing manager (d. 1985 )
1911 - George Joseph Stigler , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
1914 - William Stafford , American poet and essayist (d. 1993 )
1917 - M. G. Ramachandran , Indian politician, actor (d. 1987 )
1918 - Keith Joseph , British politician (d. 1994 )
1921 - Antonio Prohias , Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998 )
1922 - Luis Echeverría Álvarez , President of Mexico
1922 - Nicholas Katzenbach , American politician
1922 - Betty White , American actress
1925 - Robert Cormier , American author (d. 2000 )
1925 - Abdul Kardar , Pakistani cricketer
1926 - Newton N. Minow , American lawyer and statesman
1926 - Moira Shearer , Scottish actress (d. 2006 )
1927 - Eartha Kitt , American actress and singer
1928 - Jean Barraqué , French composer (d. 1973 )
1928 - Vidal Sassoon , English cosmetologist
1929 - Jacques Plante , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986 )
1930 - Eddie LeBaron , American football player
1931 - James Earl Jones , American actor
1931 - L. Douglas Wilder , 66th Governor of Virginia
1931 - Don Zimmer , American baseball coach
1932 - Sheree North , American actress (d. 2005 )
1933 - Dalida , French singer (d. 1987 )
1933 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003 )
1933 - Shari Lewis , American ventriloquist (d. 1998 )
1935 - Ruth Ann Minner , Governor of Delaware
1939 - Maury Povich , American talk show host
1940 - Kipchoge Keino , Kenyan runner
1942 - Muhammad Ali , American boxer
1942 - Ulf Hoelscher , German violinist
1942 - Nancy Parsons , American actress (d. 2001 )
1943 - René Préval , President of Haiti
1943 - Chris Montez , American singer
1944 - Françoise Hardy , French singer
1945 - Javed Akhtar , Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter
1948 - Davíð Oddsson , former Prime Minister of Iceland
1948 - Jim Ladd , American freeform (radio format) Disc Jockey (KLOS )
1949 - Mick Taylor , British musician (The Rolling Stones )
1949 - Andy Kaufman , American comedian (d. 1984 )
1952 - Darrell Porter , American baseball player (d. 2002 )
1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto , Japanese musician
1953 - Roel Sluiter , Dutch Politician
1955 - Steve Earle , American musician
1956 - Paul Young , English musician
1957 - Keith Chegwin , English television presenter
1957 - Steve Harvey , American actor, comedian and radio personality
1959 - Susanna Hoffs , American musician
1959 - Momoe Yamaguchi , Japanese singer and actress
1960 - John Crawford , American musician
1960 - Chatchai Plengpanich , Thai actor
1961 - Brian Helgeland , American writer and film director
1962 - Jim Carrey , Canadian actor and comedian
1962 - Sebastian Junger , American journalist and author
1963 - Kai Hansen , German musician/singer
1964 - Andy Rourke , English bass guitarist (The Smiths )
1965 - Sylvain Turgeon , Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Nikos Nioplias , Greek footballer
1966 - Shabba Ranks , Jamaican singer
1967 - Song Kang-ho , South Korean actor
1967 - Filippo Raciti , Italian police officer (d. 2007 )
1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer , Dutch writer
1968 - Svetlana Masterkova , Russian athlete
1969 - Lukas Moodysson , Swedish film writer and director
1969 - Naveen Andrews , British actor
1969 - Tijs Verwest Dutch DJ
1970 - Jeremy Roenick , American ice hockey player
1970 - Genndy Tartakovsky , Russian-born animator
1970 - James Wattana , Thai snooker player
1971 - Kid Rock , American singer
1971 - Richard Burns , English rally driver (d. 2005 )
1971 - Youki Kudoh , Japanese actress
1971 - Ann Wolfe , female boxer
1972 - Ken Hirai , Japanese singer and songwriter
1973 - Cuauhtémoc Blanco , Mexican footballer
1974 - Yang Chen , Chinese footballer
1974 - Derrick Mason , American football player
1977 - Kevin Fertig , American professional wrestler
1977 - Leigh Whannell , Australian screenwriter/actor
1979 - Brad Miller , American actor
1980 - Zooey Deschanel , American actress
1980 - Maksim Chmerkovskiy , Russian ballroom dancer
1980 - Kimberly Spicer , American model
1981 - Warren Feeney , Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Scott Mechlowicz , American actor
1981 - Ray J , American R&B singer
1982 - Alex Varkatzas , American singer
1982 - Dwyane Wade , American basketball player
1983 - Johannes Herber , German basketball player
1984 - Cameron Smith , Welsh Philanthropist,also famed for his sonnets and charm.
1985 - Simone Simons , Dutch singer (Epica )
1985 - Riyu Kosaka , J-POP Japanese singer, actual member of BeForU
1986 - Chloe Rose Lattanzi , Australian actress and singer
Deaths 395 - Theodosius I , Roman Emperor
1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden , German soldier
1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328 )
1468 - Skanderbeg , Albanian leader (b. 1405 )
1617 - Faust Vrančić , Croatian inventor (b. 1551 )
1654 - Paulus Potter , Dutch painter (b. 1625 )
1705 - John Ray , English naturalist (b. 1627 )
1718 - Captain Benjamin Church , Plymouth Colony settler
1737 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann , German architect (b. 1662 )
1751 - Tomaso Albinoni , Italian composer (b. 1671 )
1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga , Spanish composer (b. 1806 )
1834 - Giovanni Aldini , Italian physicist (b. 1762 )
1861 - Lola Montez , Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821 )
1863 - Horace Vernet , French painter (b. 1789 )
1884 - Hermann Schlegel , German ornithologist (b. 1804 )
1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli , Italian composer (b. 1834 )
1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes , 19th President of the United States (b. 1822 )
1903 - Ignaz Wechselmann , Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828 )
1931 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia , son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864 )
1933 - Louis Comfort Tiffany , American artist and designer (b. 1848 )
1942 - Walther von Reichenau , German field marshal (b. 1884 )
1947 - Pyotr Krasnov , Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869 )
1947 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve , French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883 )
1961 - Patrice Lumumba , Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925 )
1964 - T.H. White , English author (b. 1906 )
1967 - Evelyn Nesbit , American actress (b. 1884 )
1970 - Simon Kovar , Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890 )
1970 - Billy Stewart , American singer (b. 1937 )
1972 - Betty Smith , American writer and singer (b. 1896 )
1977 - Gary Gilmore , American murderer (b. 1940 )
1983 - Doodles Weaver , American actor (b. 1911 )
1987 - Hugo Fregonese , Argentine film director (b. 1908 )
1991 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903 )
1993 - Albert Hourani , English historian (b. 1915 )
1994 - Helen Stephens , American runner (b. 1918 )
1996 - Amber Hagerman , American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986 )
1996 - Barbara Jordan , American politician (b. 1936 )
1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed , Sudanese singer (b. 1953 )
1997 - Clyde Tombaugh , American astronomer (b. 1906 )
1998 - Junior Kimbrough , American bluesman (b. 1930 )
1999 - Robert Eads , American transexual (b. 1945 )
2001 - Gregory Corso , American poet (b. 1930 )
2002 - Bishop Karas , First Coptic Bishop of St. Antony Monastery (b. 1955 )
2002 - Camilo Jose Cela , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916 )
2003 - Richard Crenna , American actor (b. 1926 )
2004 - Czeslaw Niemen , Polish musician (b. 1939 )
2004 - Ray Stark , American stage and film producer (b. 1915 )
2004 - Noble Willingham , American actor (b. 1931 )
2004 - Harry Brecheen , American baseball player (b. 1914 )
2005 - Charlie Bell , Australian fast food executive (b. 1960 )
2005 - Virginia Mayo , American actress (b. 1920 )
2005 - Albert Schatz , American microbiologist (b. 1920 )
2005 - Zhao Ziyang , Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919 )
2006 - Clarence Ray Allen , American murderer (b. 1930 )
2006 - Pierre Grondin , French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925 )
2007 - Art Buchwald , American humorist (b. 1925 )
2007 - Yevhen Kushnaryov , Ukrainian politician (b. 1951 )
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