Search examples: Microsoft | 2015 | 2014/10 | 4.12 | 04/20 | 05/26/1980 | Galileo Galilei

Events on the 17th of January in history

Events
Date Text
17 Jan 2038 Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
0
17 Jan 0395 Emperor Theodosius I dies in Mediolanum (Milan), the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother (aged 10).
0
17 Jan 1287 King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
0
17 Jan 1377 Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
0
17 Jan 1501 Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna
0
17 Jan 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
0
17 Jan 1536 Francois Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III
0
17 Jan 1536 Fran
0
17 Jan 1562 France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain.
0
17 Jan 1562 Edict of St Germain recognizes the Huguenots in France
0
17 Jan 1584 Bohemia adopts the Gregorian calendar
0
17 Jan 1595 Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
0
17 Jan 1595 French king Henri IV declares war on Spain
0
17 Jan 1601 France gains Bresse, Bugey, Valromey & Gex in treaty with Spain
0
17 Jan 1608 Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
0
17 Jan 1648 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.
0
17 Jan 1656 Brandenburg & Sweden sign Treaty of K
0
17 Jan 1718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53
0
17 Jan 1746 Battle of Falkirk, Scotland-Edward I defeats and massacres Scots
0
17 Jan 1746 Battle of Falkirk, Scotland-Prince Charles Edward Stuart defeated by Scots
0
17 Jan 1757 German Diet declares war on Prussia
0
17 Jan 1773 Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
0
17 Jan 1773 Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66
0
17 Jan 1775 R B Sheridan's "Rivals" premieres in London
0
17 Jan 1775 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Poland
0
17 Jan 1779 Captain Cook's last notation in ship's log Discovery
0
17 Jan 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.
0
17 Jan 1799 Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
0
17 Jan 1811 Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
0
17 Jan 1821 M
0
17 Jan 1827 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander
0
17 Jan 1832 Johannes van den Bosch appointed Governor-General of Dutch-Indies
0
17 Jan 1852 The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
0
17 Jan 1852 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
0
17 Jan 1861 Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
0
17 Jan 1861 Flush toilet (with separate water tank and a pull chain) patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
0
17 Jan 1862 -Jan 22nd) BBT Fort Henry TN by USS Lexington
0
17 Jan 1863 Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia
0
17 Jan 1864 General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridge TN
0
17 Jan 1871 1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873)
0
17 Jan 1873 A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
0
17 Jan 1874 Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction
0
17 Jan 1882 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office
0
17 Jan 1885 A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
0
17 Jan 1885 British beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan
0
17 Jan 1893 Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
0
17 Jan 1893 -17
0
17 Jan 1893 Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
0
17 Jan 1895 F
0
17 Jan 1895 French President Casimir-Perier resigns
0
17 Jan 1899 The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
0
17 Jan 1899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
0
17 Jan 1903 El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
0
17 Jan 1904 Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
0
17 Jan 1904 Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" opens at the Moscow Art Theater
0
17 Jan 1905 Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago IL
0
17 Jan 1911 Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow" premieres in New York City NY
0
17 Jan 1911 Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
0
17 Jan 1912 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
0
17 Jan 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
0
17 Jan 1912 English explorer Robert Falcon Scott & his expedition reach the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there 1 month before
0
17 Jan 1913 Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
0
17 Jan 1913 Raymond Poincar
0
17 Jan 1914 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus" premieres in Berlin
0
17 Jan 1915 Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
0
17 Jan 1915 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens
0
17 Jan 1916 1st PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Siwanoy Country Club - Bronxville, New York
0
17 Jan 1916 Professional Golfer Association (PGA) forms in New York City
0
17 Jan 1916 1st PGA Championship Jim Barnes at Siwanoy Country Club, Bronxville NY; Professional Golfer Association (PGA) forms
0
17 Jan 1917 US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands (or 3 / 21)
0
17 Jan 1917 The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
0
17 Jan 1918 Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
0
17 Jan 1920 Paul Deschanel elected President of France
0
17 Jan 1923 Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied
0
17 Jan 1923 Origin of Brown lunation numbers
0
17 Jan 1926 George Burns marries Gracie Allen
0
17 Jan 1928 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented
0
17 Jan 1929 Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"
0
17 Jan 1929 Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days.
0
17 Jan 1929 Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
0
17 Jan 1933 Bradman takes second Test wicket, Hammond, bowled
0
17 Jan 1934 Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the New York Giants
0
17 Jan 1934 New York Giants reward NL MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with $18,000 contract
0
17 Jan 1934 Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated
0
17 Jan 1938 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman
0
17 Jan 1939 Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert
0
17 Jan 1941 Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
0
17 Jan 1943 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
0
17 Jan 1943 Tin Can Drive Day
0
17 Jan 1944 World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
0
17 Jan 1944 Corvette Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean
0
17 Jan 1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
0
17 Jan 1945 The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
0
17 Jan 1945 World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
0
17 Jan 1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary
0
17 Jan 1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation
0
17 Jan 1945 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)
0
17 Jan 1945 Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4 05.3), retires to do gospel work
0
17 Jan 1946 The UN Security Council holds its first session.
0
17 Jan 1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
0
17 Jan 1947 Muiden Netherlands ammunition factory explodes, 16 die
0
17 Jan 1948 Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in New York City NY
0
17 Jan 1948 Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire
0
17 Jan 1949 The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time.
0
17 Jan 1950 "Alive & Kicking" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 46 performances
0
17 Jan 1950 The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
0
17 Jan 1950 "Alive & Kicking" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY for 46 performances
0
17 Jan 1950 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities
0
17 Jan 1951 China refuses cease-fire in Korea
0
17 Jan 1954 Suggs Louise wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open (Cloister)
0
17 Jan 1954 NFL Pro Bowl East beats West 20-9
0
17 Jan 1954 Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
0
17 Jan 1955 Submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage
0
17 Jan 1957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
0
17 Jan 1960 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-21
0
17 Jan 1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
0
17 Jan 1961 Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
0
17 Jan 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" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
0
17 Jan 1961 Eisenhower allegedly orders the assassination of Congo's Lumumba
0
17 Jan 1962 Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in San Francisco
0
17 Jan 1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m
0
17 Jan 1963 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 67 points vs Los Angeles
0
17 Jan 1963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
0
17 Jan 1966 B-52 / KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
0
17 Jan 1966 Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
0
17 Jan 1966 USAF B-52 carrying 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
0
17 Jan 1966 Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago
0
17 Jan 1968 Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
0
17 Jan 1969 Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in the UK
0
17 Jan 1969 Soyuz 5 lands
0
17 Jan 1969 Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
0
17 Jan 1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US
0
17 Jan 1970 Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
0
17 Jan 1970 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft
0
17 Jan 1970 John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Massachusetts)
0
17 Jan 1971 Super Bowl V Baltimore Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Chuck Howley, Dallas, Linebacker
0
17 Jan 1972 Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd
0
17 Jan 1973 City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi
0
17 Jan 1973 New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life
0
17 Jan 1974 Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei" premieres in New York City NY
0
17 Jan 1976 "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1
0
17 Jan 1976 Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency
0
17 Jan 1977 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 24-14
0
17 Jan 1977 Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
0
17 Jan 1977 Zaire President Mobutu visits Belgium
0
17 Jan 1977 Kansas City releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams
0
17 Jan 1977 7th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 24-14
0
17 Jan 1979 USSR performs underground nuclear test
0
17 Jan 1979 New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers
0
17 Jan 1979 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
0
17 Jan 1980 NASA launches Fltsatcom-3
0
17 Jan 1981 President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
0
17 Jan 1981 Philippino President Marcos ends state of siege
0
17 Jan 1982 "Cold Sunday": in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
0
17 Jan 1983 The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.
0
17 Jan 1983 Alabama Governor George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time
0
17 Jan 1983 10th American Music Award Kenny Rogers
0
17 Jan 1983 Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians
0
17 Jan 1984 Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
0
17 Jan 1985 Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England)
0
17 Jan 1986 Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 to regain WBA heavyweight title
0
17 Jan 1987 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
0
17 Jan 1988 "Teddy & Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 77 performances
0
17 Jan 1988 Leslie Manigay elected President of Haiti
0
17 Jan 1988 "Teddy & Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City NY after 77 performances
0
17 Jan 1989 Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami
0
17 Jan 1989 Victoria Murden & Shirley Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
0
17 Jan 1989 Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
0
17 Jan 1989 Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
0
17 Jan 1990 5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin
0
17 Jan 1990 Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters & Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
0
17 Jan 1990 Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
0
17 Jan 1991 Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
0
17 Jan 1991 Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs. Iraq
0
17 Jan 1991 Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
0
17 Jan 1991 Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
0
17 Jan 1991 Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
0
17 Jan 1991 Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title
0
17 Jan 1991 Iraq fires 8 SCUD missiles on Israel - 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
0
17 Jan 1992 During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
0
17 Jan 1992 Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)
0
17 Jan 1993 Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45")
0
17 Jan 1993 14th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 32 awards
0
17 Jan 1994 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
0
17 Jan 1994 Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment
0
17 Jan 1994 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage
0
17 Jan 1995 "Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 322 performances
0
17 Jan 1995 The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
0
17 Jan 1995 Los Angeles Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis
0
17 Jan 1995 Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
0
17 Jan 1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)
0
17 Jan 1995 "Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City NY after 322 performances
0
17 Jan 1996 The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
0
17 Jan 1997 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
0
17 Jan 1997 NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely/$25,000 for kicking cameraman
0
17 Jan 1998 Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
0
17 Jan 1998 President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones
0
17 Jan 2002 Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
0
17 Jan 2007 The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
0
17 Jan 2008 British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
0
17 Jan 2010 Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.
0
16th January 18th January
© 2016 OnThisDay.net All rights reserved.
Loaded in 0.0539s.