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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 )
Events
1562 - France recognized the Huguenots under the Edict of St. 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 .1746 - Charles Edward Stuart , "Bonnie Prince Charlie", defeats a Hanoverian army at Falkirk in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the Jacobite dynasty.1773 - Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle .1781 - Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens 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 - American sugar planters led by the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii .1899 - The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean .1912 - Robert Falcon Scott 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 appeared in a newspaper comic strip .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 Hungary while in Soviet custody. 1946 - The UN Security Council holds its first session.1949 - The Goldbergs , the first sitcom on American television , airs.1950 - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts .1966 - Simon and Garfunkel release their second album, Sounds of Silence 1966 - A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain , dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.1966 - Carl Brashear , the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg.1973 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes "President for Life" of the Philippines .1975 - Bob Dylan releases Blood on the Tracks ,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 Britain 's famous red telephone boxes .1991 - Gulf War : 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 . 1992 - Punk rock band Green Day releases their second full-length album, Kerplunk .1994 - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurs in Northridge, California see 1994_Northridge_Earthquake 1995 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called "the Great Hanshin earthquake " occurrs near Kobe , Japan , causing great property damage and killing 6,433 people.1996 - The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union .1998 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment .2002 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
Births 1463 - Friedrich III , Saxon elector (d. 1525 )1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572 )1560 - Gaspard Bauhin , botanist (d. 1624 )1706 - Benjamin Franklin American writer, inventor, publisher, and ambassador (d. 1790 )1763 - John Jacob Astor , entrepreneur (d. 1848 )1820 - Anne Brontë , British author (d. 1849 )1832 - Henry Martyn Baird, American historian and educationalist (d. 1906 )1860 - Douglas Hyde , President of Ireland 1863 - David Lloyd George , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945 )1867 - Carl Laemmle , film executive (d. 1939 )1871 - David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936 )1880 - Mack Sennett , director, producer (d. 1960 )1899 - Al Capone , gangster, nicknamed "Scarface" (d. 1947 )1899 - Nevil Shute , author (d. 1960 )1914 - William Stafford , poet and essayist (d. 1993 )1921 - Antonio Prohias, cartoonist (d. 1998 )1922 - Nicholas Katzenbach , politician1922 - Betty White , actress 1922 - Luis Echeverría Álvarez , former President of Mexico 1925 - Robert Cormier , American author (d. 2000 )1926 - Moira Shearer, actress, dancer1926 - Newton N. Minow , journalist 1927 - Eartha Kitt , actress, singer1928 - Jean Barraqué , composer (d. 1973 )1928 - Vidal Sassoon , cosmetologist 1929 - Jacques Plante , ice hockey star (d. 1986 )1931 - James Earl Jones , actor1931 - Douglas Wilder , first elected African American governor (Virginia) 1931 - Don Zimmer, baseball coach 1933 - Dalida , French singer (d. 1987 )1933 - Shari Lewis , puppeteer (d. 1998 ) 1933 - Sheree North, American actress 1933 - Ray Dolby , inventor 1937 - Troy Donahue, actor1939 - Maury Povich , talk show host1940 - Kipchoge Keino , Kenyan runner1942 - Muhammad Ali , boxer 1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, violinist 1942 - Cus D'Amato, boxing manager (d. 1985 ) 1942 - Nancy Parsons, Amnerican actress (d. 2001 ) 1943 - René Préval , former President of Haiti 1944 - Françoise Hardy , French singer1948 - Davíð Oddsson , Prime Minister of Iceland 1948 - Mick Taylor , British musician (The Rolling Stones ) 1949 - Andy Kaufman , comedian (d. 1984 )1952 - Darrell Porter , basketball player (d. 2002 )1952 - Larry Fortensky, former husband on Elizabeth Taylor 1955 - Steve Earle , musician1956 - Paul Young , English musician1957 - Suzanne Danielle , English actress1959 - Susanna Hoffs , American musician1962 - Jim Carrey , actor, comedian1966 - Shabba Ranks , singer1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer , Dutch writer of science-fiction novellas and pornographic literature1969 - Lukas Moodysson , film director 1970 - Jeremy Roenick , American NHL star1970 - James Wattana , Thai snooker player 1971 - Kid Rock , singer1974 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani , Iranian conjoined twin sisters (d. 2003 )1980 - Zooey Deschanel , American actress1982 - Dwyane Wade , NBA basketball player1982 - Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian country music singer
Deaths 395 - Theodosius I , Roman Emperor1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden (b. 1165 )1468 - Skanderbeg , Albanian leader against the Ottoman Empire 1617 - Faust Vrancic , Croatian inventor Parachute (b. 1551 )1751 - Tomaso Albinoni , Italian composer (b. 1671 )1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga , composer1861 - Lola Montez , adventurer (b. 1821 )1874 - Chang and Eng Bunker , Siamese twins (b. 1811 )1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli , Italian composer (b. 1834 )1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes , 19th President of the United States (b. 1822 )1961 - Patrice Lumumba , Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925 )1964 - T.H. White , author (b. 1906 )1967 - Evelyn Nesbit , actress, also known as "The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing" (b. 1884 )1970 - Billy Stewart, American singer1972 - Betty Smith, American writer, singer1977 - Gary Gilmore , murderer (executed by firing squad ) (b. 1940 )1983 - Doodles Weaver , American actor1991 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903 )1991 - Amber Hagerman , murder victim 1993 - Albert Hourani , historian (b. 1915 )1994 - Helen Stephens, American sprinter1996 - Amber Hagerman , kidnapping, murder victim (b. 1986 )1996 - Barbara Jordan , politician (b. 1936 )1997 - Clyde Tombaugh , astronomer (b. 1906 )2001 - Laurent-Desire Kabila , president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939 )2001 - Gregory Corso , American poet 2002 - Camilo Jose Cela , Spanish author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1989 (b. 1916 )2003 - Richard Crenna , American actor2004 - Noble Willingham, American actor2005 - Zhao Ziyang , reformist Premier of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China 2005 - Virginia Mayo , actress
Holidays and observances January 16 - January 18 - December 17 - February 17 -- listing of all days
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