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This day 17th January:

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

Explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano

1524 - Beginning ofGiovanni 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 - King Henri IV of France 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 "The Rivals" premieres in London

Captain/Explorer James Cook

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 permitsMoses 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)

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.

Confederate GeneralJames Longstreet

1874 - Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction

1882 - 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office

1885 - British 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 - Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen

Naval Officer and Explorer Robert Scott

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"

Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

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 - British corvette HMS 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

Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek

1945 - Soviet army enters the devastated city of Warsaw and clears the German resistance

1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by Soviet 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

1952 - 1952 NFL Draft: Bill Wade from University of Vanderbilt first pick by Los Angeles Rams

1953 - 41st Women's Australian Championships: Maureen Connolly beats Julia Sampson (6-3, 6-2)

Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionKen Rosewall

1953 - 41st Men's Australian Championships: Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (6-0, 6-3, 6-4)

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".

1961 - 11th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-131 at Syracuse, New York

Astronaut & 1st Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong

1962 - NASA civilian pilotNeil Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690m

1962 - Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF

1963 - Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km

1963 - Wilt Chamberlainof 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 KingJr. 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

Musician Barry Manilow

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

1977 - Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in the Utah state prison, charged with murder

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 - 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 Awards: 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

1986 - 2nd Sundance Film Festival: "Smooth Talk" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

US President & ActorRonald Reagan

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

1988 - AFC Championship Game: Denver Broncos beat Cleveland Browns 38-33

1988 - NFC Championship Game: Washington Redskins beat Minnesota Vikings 17-10

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

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

1991 - Operation Desert Storm begins againstSaddam Hussein

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")

1993 - AFC Championship Game: Buffalo Bills beat Miami Dolphins 29-10

1993 - NFC Championship Game: Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 30-20

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 cricket's World Series Cup

1995 - LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis

Actress Elizabeth Taylor

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 suspendsDennis Rodmanindefinitely for kicking cameraman

1998 - President Clintonfaces 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

1999 - AFC Championship Game: Denver Broncos beat New York Jets 23-10

1999 - NFC Championship Game: Atlanta Falcons beat Minnesota Vikings 30-27 (OT)

Singer Shania Twain

2000 - 27th American Music Awards: 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.

2003 - 8th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Chicago wins Best Film

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

Actress Sandra Bullock

2010 - 67th Golden Globes: Avatar, Jeff Bridges, & Sandra Bullockwin

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.

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