January 17

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2008 Calendar

January 17 is the 17th day in the calendar system we use. When there is not a leap year, there are 348 days after January 17. If there is a leap year, there are 349 days after January 17.

1 Births
2 People who died
3 Things that happened
4 Special days
5 Other websites

[change] Births

1706 - Benjamin Franklin American writer, inventor, and agent of the United States in France (d. 1790)
1820 - Anne Brontë, English writer (d. 1849)
1860 - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland
1863 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
1921 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban born cartoonist (d. 1998)
1931 - James Earl Jones, American actor
1933 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian-born actor, comedian
1983 - Yelle, French singer and songwriter

[change] People who died

395 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (a kind of leader)
1229 - 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 song maker (b. 1671)
1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, song maker
1861 - Lola Montez, person who went on journies (b. 1821)
1874 - Chang and Eng Bunker, 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)
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister (a kind of leader) 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 singer
1972 - Betty Smith, American writer, singer
1977 - Gary Gilmore, murderer (executed by firing squad) (b. 1940)
1983 - Doodles Weaver, American actor
1991 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
1991 - Amber Hagerman, person who was killed by another person
1993 - Albert Hourani, person who knew a lot about history (b. 1915)
1994 - Helen Stephens, American person who ran fast
1996 - Amber Hagerman, person who was kidnapped then killed (b. 1986)
1996 - Barbara Jordan, government worker (b. 1936)
1997 - Clyde Tombaugh, studied stars (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 actor (b. 1926)
2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
2004 - Rafael Churumba Cordero, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico (b. 1942)
2004 - Ray Stark, made people known, actor's agent, 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, person who wanted change Premier of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1917)

[change] Things that happened

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 sorround 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 really 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 see 1994_Northridge_Earthquake
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 harrassed by President Bill Clinton.
2002 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, making about 400,000 people homeless.