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On this day - January 17
Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ...
1362 — Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
1377 — Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the ...
1524 — Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find ...
1562 — France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the ...
1595 — During the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France ...
1608 — Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at ...
1648 — England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No ...
1649 — The Second Ormonde Peace creates an alliance between the Irish ...
1773 — Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of ...
1781 — American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens: Continental ...
1799 — Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other ...
1811 — Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, ...
1852 — The United Kingdom signs the Sand River Convention with the ...
1873 — A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in ...
1885 — A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of ...
1893 — Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of ...
1899 — The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the ...
1903 — El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the ...
1904 — Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere ...
1912 — British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the ...
1915 — Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish ...
1917 — The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin ...
1918 — Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place ...
1920 — Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the ...
1941 — Franco-Thai War: Vichy French forces inflict a decisive defeat ...
1943 — World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton ...
1944 — World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults ...
1945 — Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody ...
1945 — The SS-Totenkopfverbände begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz ...
1945 — World War II: The Vistula–Oder Offensive forces German troops ...
1946 — The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1948 — The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia ...
1950 — United Nations Security Council Resolution 79 relating to arms ...
1950 — The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than ...
1961 — Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered ...
1961 — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised ...
1966 — Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 ...
1969 — Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are ...
1977 — Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ...
1981 — President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial ...
1989 — Patrick Purdy opens fire at an elementary school in Stockton, ...
1991 — Crown Prince Harald of Norway becomes King Harald V, following ...
1991 — Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning ...
1992 — During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi ...
1994 — The 6.7 Mw Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los ...
1995 — The 6.9 Mw Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo ...
1996 — The Czech Republic applies for membership in the European ...
1997 — Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS ...
1998 — Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the ...
2002 — Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the ...
2007 — The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in ...
2008 — British Airways Flight 38 crashes short of the runway at ...
2010 — Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, ...
2013 — Shahzad Luqman is murdered by members of Golden Dawn in ...
2013 — Former cyclist Lance Armstrong confesses to his doping in an ...
2016 — President Barack Obama announces the Joint Comprehensive Plan ...
2017 — The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is announced to be ...
2023 — An avalanche strikes Nyingchi, Tibet, killing 28 people.
2026 — Indonesia Air Transport ATR 42 crashed near Mount Bulusaraung ...