Notable Historical Events on January 17th
January 17th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1287 |
King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca. |
1377 |
Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. |
1501 |
Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna |
1524 |
Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage to find a passage to China. |
1536 |
Francois Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III |
1562 |
Edict of St Germain recognizes Huguenots in France |
1584 |
Bohemia adopts Gregorian calendar |
1595 |
French King Henri IV declares war on Spain |
1601 |
France gains Bresse, Bugey, Valromey & Gex in treaty with Spain |
1656 |
Brandenburg & Sweden sign Treaty of Königsberg |
1718 |
Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switz; kills 53 |
1746 |
Battle of Falkirk Muir, the Jacobites under Charles Stuart defeat Hanoverian forces. |
1757 |
German Diet declares war on Prussia |
1773 |
Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S) |
1775 |
9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Pol |
1775 |
R B Sheridan's "Rivals," premieres in London |
1779 |
Captain Cook's last notation in ship's log Discovery |
1799 |
Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, was executed. |
1821 |
Mexico permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas, after his death leaves to son Stephen |
1827 |
Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander |
1832 |
Johannes van den Bosch appointed gov-gen of Dutch-Indies |
1852 |
British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa) |
1861 |
Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper |
1862 |
-Jan 22nd) BBT Ft Henry, TN by USS Lexington |
1863 |
Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia |
1864 |
General longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN |
1871 |
1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873) |
1873 |
A group of Modoc warriors defeat the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War. |
1874 |
Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction |
1882 |
1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office |
1885 |
Brits beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan |
1893 |
-17°F (-27°C), Millsboro, Delaware (state record) |
1893 |
Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic |
1895 |
French president Casimir-Perier resigns |
1895 |
Félix Faure installed as president of France |
1899 |
US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific |
1904 |
Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater |
1905 |
Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago |
1911 |
Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly |
1911 |
Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in NYC |
1912 |
Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen |
1913 |
Raymond Poincaré elected president of France |
1914 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus," premieres in Berlin |
1915 |
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens |
1915 |
Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine |
1916 |
1st PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Siwanoy CC Bronxville NY |
1916 |
Professional Golfer Association (PGA) forms in NYC |
1917 |
US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands (or 3/21) |
1920 |
Paul Deschanel elected president of France |
1920 |
First day Prohibition comes into effect in the US as a result of the 18th amendment |
1923 |
Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied |
1923 |
Origin of Brown lunation numbers |
1928 |
1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented |
1929 |
Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater" |
1933 |
Bradman takes second Test wicket, Hammond, bowled |
1934 |
Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the NY Giants |
1934 |
Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated |
1934 |
NY Giants reward MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with $18,000 contract |
1938 |
Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman |
1938 |
Joseph P. Kennedy becomes the 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom |
1939 |
Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert |
1941 |
Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-Shek open fire at communist forces, resuming the Chinese Civil War after World War II. |
1943 |
Tin Can Drive Day |
1944 |
Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean |
1945 |
Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation |
1945 |
Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work |
1945 |
The devastated city of Warsaw is cleared of German resistance by the Russians and a Polish unit fighting with them |
1945 |
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary |
1946 |
United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting |
1947 |
Muiden Neth ammunition factory explodes, 16 die |
1948 |
Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire |
1948 |
Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in NYC |
1949 |
The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs. |
1950 |
"Alive & Kicking" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 46 perfs |
1950 |
The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 men rob $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities from armored car company Brink's offices in Boston, Massachusetts |
1951 |
China refuses ceases-fire in Korea |
1954 |
Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS) |
1954 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-9 |
1954 |
Suggs Louise wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open (Cloister) |
1955 |
Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage |
1957 |
9-county commission recommends creation of BART |
1959 |
"Say, Darling" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 332 performances |
1960 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
1960 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-21 |
1961 |
Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba |
1961 |
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". |
1962 |
A NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m |
1962 |
Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF |
1963 |
Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km |
1963 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 67 points vs LA |
1966 |
B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die |
1966 |
Martin Luther King Jr. opens campaign in Chicago |
1969 |
Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US |
1969 |
Soyuz 5 lands |
1970 |
357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft |
1970 |
AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3 |
1970 |
John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass) |
1970 |
Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s |
1971 |
Super Bowl V: Balt Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Chuck Howley, Dallas, LB |
1971 |
At a party conference in Dublin, Sinn Féin end their 65 year abstentionist policy and agree that any elected representative could take their seat at the Dáil |
1972 |
Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd |
1972 |
Seven men who were held as internees escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast Lough, North Ireland |
1973 |
City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi |
1973 |
New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life |
1974 |
Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres in NYC |
1976 |
"I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1 |
1976 |
Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency |
1977 |
KC releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams |
1977 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 24-14 |
1977 |
Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium |
1979 |
NY Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against NY Rangers |
1979 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1980 |
NASA launches Fltsatcom-3 |
1980 |
Dunmurry train explosion: a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb prematurely detonates on a passenger train near Belfast, killing three and injuring five (including the bombers) |
1981 |
Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege |
1982 |
"Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities. |
1983 |
10th American Music Award: John Cougar & Rick Springfield, Olivia Newton-John |
1983 |
Alabama Gov George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time |
1983 |
Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians |
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 |
1985 |
Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England) |
1986 |
Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1987 |
US President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran |
1988 |
"Teddy & Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 77 performances |
1988 |
Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti |
1988 |
"The Fumble", trailing 38-31 with 1:12 left in the AFC Championship Game, the Browns' Earnest Byner fumbled at the Denver 3-yard line, sending the Broncos to their second consecutive Super Bowl appearance |
1989 |
Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach |
1989 |
Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded |
1989 |
Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis) |
1989 |
Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami |
1990 |
5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin |
1990 |
Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract |
1990 |
Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters & |
1990 |
Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
1991 |
Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel |
1991 |
Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title |
1991 |
Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq |
1991 |
Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn) |
1991 |
Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V. |
1992 |
Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews) |
1993 |
14th ACE Cable Awards: Bravo! wins the Golden CableACE for its dedication to films, cultural arts and performing arts programming |
1993 |
Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45") |
1994 |
6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage |
1994 |
Actress Elizabeth Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment |
1995 |
"Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 322 performances |
1995 |
7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die) |
1995 |
Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
1995 |
LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis |
1996 |
The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union. |
1996 |
Iraq agrees to talks concerning a UN plan to allow for the Iraqi sale of $1 billion of oil; proceeds from the sale would be used for humanitarian purposes |
1997 |
NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely for kicking cameraman |
1998 |
President Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones |
1999 |
"The Miss", Minnesota Viking placekicker Gary Anderson had become the first kicker in history to finish the regular season without missing a field goal or extra point attempt, but misses a field goal late in the fourth quarter of the NFC Championship Game, allowing the Atlanta Falcons to tie the game and eventually win it in overtime |
2000 |
27th American Music Award: Shania Twain & Will Smith win |
2001 |
President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain. |
2001 |
OPEC agrees at a meeting of ministers in Vienna, to reduce members' oil production quotas by 1.5 million barrels per day |
2002 |
Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. |
2007 |
The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing. |
2010 |
A dragon boat from Chung Ling High School capsizes and collides with a tugboat amid strong currents in Penang, Malaysia, killing 6 people and injuring 12 |
2013 |
106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs |
2013 |
33 people are killed by a series of bombs across Iraq |
2013 |
4 people are killed and over 2,000 are evacuated after a massive flood hits Jakarta, Indonesia |
2013 |
8 people are killed in a plane crash in Chiapas, Mexico |
2013 |
Japan unveils plans to build the world's largest wind farm near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant |
2014 |
21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan |
2016 |
Cardinals Beat Packers in Overtime to Advance in NFC |
2016 |
Iran announces release of 5 Americans after sanctions lifted |
2016 |
Broncos Defeat Battered Steelers to Advance in AFC |
2016 |
China expected to post worst annual growth in 25 years |
2016 |
The 62 richest people have as much wealth as half the world |
2016 |
US to pay Iran $1.7 billion in legal settlement |
2016 |
3 American contractors missing in Iraq |
2017 |
Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Is Called Off After Nearly 3 Years |
2017 |
Gunman Kills 5 at International Music Festival in Mexico |
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