January 17
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January 17 is the 17th day in the Gregorian calendar. There are 348 days (347 days in a leap year) in the year left after January 17.
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[change] Births
- 1463 – Frederick III of Saxony, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
- 1504 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
- 1600 – Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
- 1706 – Benjamin Franklin American writer, inventor, and agent of the United States in France (d. 1790)
- 1732 – Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland (d. 1798)
- 1749 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and dramatist (d. 1803)
- 1789 – August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
- 1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
- 1811 – Emperor Norton, self-declared Emperor of the United States (d. 1880)
- 1820 – Anne Brontë, English writer (d. 1849)
- 1831 – Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
- 1860 – Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (d. 1949)
- 1863 – David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
- 1883 – Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (d. 1972)
- 1887 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
- 1899 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
- 1899 – Nevil Shute, English writer (d. 1960)
- 1905 – Guillermo Stabile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
- 1911 – George Stigler, American economist (d. 1991)
- 1917 – M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician and actor (d. 1987)
- 1918 – George M. Leader, former Governor of Pennsylvania
- 1921 – Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (d. 1998)
- 1922 – Luis Echeverria Alvarez, former President of Mexico
- 1922 – Betty White, American actress
- 1925 – Robert Cormier, American writer (d. 2000)
- 1926 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006)
- 1927 – Eartha Kitt, American singer (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser
- 1929 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
- 1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor
- 1931 – L. Douglas Wilder, American politician
- 1933 – Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
- 1935 – Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, former Governor of Delaware
- 1939 – Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens (d. 2008)
- 1940 – Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
- 1940 – Tabare Vazquez, former President of Uruguay
- 1942 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer
- 1943 – Rene Preval, former President of Haiti
- 1948 – David Oddson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
- 1949 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
- 1949 – Mick Taylor, British musician
- 1954 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and activist
- 1956 – Paul Young, English musician
- 1962 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor, comedian
- 1964 – Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
- 1964 – Andy Rourke, English guitarist
- 1967 – Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
- 1971 – Richard Burns, British rally driver (d. 2005)
- 1973 – Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Mexican footballer
- 1978 – Ricky Wilson, English singer
- 1979 – Ricardo Cabanas, Swiss footballer
- 1980 – Zooey Deschanel, American actress
- 1983 – Yelle, French singer and songwriter
- 1984 – Calvin Harris, Scottish singer and musician
- 1985 – Simone Simons, Dutch singer
- 1985 – Pablo Barrientos, Argentine footballer
[change] Deaths
- 395 – Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (a kind of leader)
- 1229 – Albert of Buxhoeveden (b. 1165)
- 1369 – Peter I of Cyprus (b. 1328)
- 1468 – Skanderbeg, Albanian leader against the Ottoman Empire (b. 1405)
- 1598 – Fyodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
- 1617 – Faust Vrancic, Croatian inventor of the Parachute (b. 1551)
- 1751 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian song maker (b. 1671)
- 1861 – Lola Montez, adventurer (b. 1821)
- 1874 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins, twins that shared a body (b. 1811)
- 1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian song maker (b. 1834)
- 1893 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- 1908 – Ferdinand IV of Tuscany (b. 1835)
- 1911 – Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist (b. 1822)
- 1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
- 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)
- 1977 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (executed by firing squad) (b. 1940)
- 1991 – King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
- 1993 – Albert Hourani, historian (b. 1915)
- 1996 – Amber Hagerman, Americam murder victim (b. 1986)
- 1996 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
- 1997 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 2001 – Laurent-Desire Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
- 2002 – Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1989 (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2004 – Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
- 2004 – Rafael Churumba Cordero, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico (b. 1942)
- 2004 – Ray Stark, American film producer, produced Funny Girl in 1968 (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Charlie Bell, former CEO (person who runs a company) of McDonald's (b. 1960)
- 2005 – Virginia Mayo, United States actress, more in the 1940s and 1950s (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Albert Schatz, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Bobby Fischer, American-born chess player (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Erich Segal, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- 2011 – Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934)
[change] Events
- 1562 – France accepted the Huguenots under the Edict of St. Germain.
- 1648 – England's Long Parliament agrees with the Vote of No Address, stopping dealing with King Charles I which then started the second part of the English Civil War.
- 1746 – Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", makes a Hanoverian army lose at Falkirk in his failing campaign to get back the throne for the Jacobite dynasty.
- 1773 – Captain James Cook becomes the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle.
- 1781 – Continental troops of Brigadier General Daniel Morgan makes British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton lose at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
- 1819 – Simón Bolívar creates the Republic of Colombia.
- 1852 – United Kingdom accepts the freedom of the Boer places of the Transvaal.
- 1873 – First Battle of the Stronghold in the US Modoc War.
- 1885 – A British force makes a large Dervish army lose at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
- 1893 – American sugar planters led by the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety make the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii no longer around.
- 1899 – The United States gets 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) starts.
- 1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
- 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character made by Elzie Crisler Segar, first seen in a newspaper comic strip.
- 1945 – Soviet forces get the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
- 1945 – The Nazis begin the process of people leaving the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces surround it.
- 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while Soviet were in charge of him.
- 1946 – The UN Security Council has its first meeting.
- 1949 – The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, is seen.
- 1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 stealers steal more than $2 million from an secure car in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1966 – Simon and Garfunkel release their second album, Sounds of Silence, on Columbia Records.
- 1966 – A B-52 bomber slams into a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs (a very powerful bomb) near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
- 1966 – Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, gets hurt in a way so his leg has to be chopped off.
- 1973 – Ferdinand Marcos is "President for Life" of the Philippines.
- 1975 – Bob Dylan puts out Blood on the Tracks, often said to be one of his best albums.
- 1977 – A person who killed other people, Gary Gilmore, is put to death by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year delay on being put to death as punishment in the United States.
- 1982 – "Cold Sunday" in the United States sees temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in many cities.
- 1985 – British Telecom says that Britain's famous red telephone boxes will no longer exist.
- 1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begin early in the morning. Iraq shoots 8 Scud bombs into Israel in an failing try to provoke Israel to fight back.
- 1991 – Harald V becomes King of Norway because his father, Olav V, died.
- 1992 – Punk rock band Green Day sends out their second full-length album, Kerplunk.
- 1994 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake happens in Northridge, California.
- 1995 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called "the Great Hanshin earthquake" happens near Kobe, Japan, causing property to be damaged and killing 6,433 people.
- 1996 – The Czech Republic asks the European Union if they can be a member.
- 1998 – Paula Jones says she was sexually harassed by President Bill Clinton.
- 2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, making about 400,000 people homeless.
- 2007 - The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes before midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.
- 2008 - British Airways Flight 38 crash-lands at London Heathrow Airport. All people on board survive.
- 2010 - Religious riots between Muslims and Christians erupt in Jos, Nigeria, killing more than 200 people.
[change] Special days
- Ancient Latvia – Zirgu Diena observed
- Catholicism – Feast day of St. Anthony.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States when this day falls on a Monday.
