Historical Events In January - 17
Friday, 31 March 2023
1992 Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews) on this day in history.
1992 Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95 on this day in history.
1993 On this day in history 14th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 32 awards
1993 Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies on this day in history.
1994 On January - 17 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage
1994 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes Southern California, killing 61 people and causing $20 billion in damage on this day in history.
1994 On this day in history a pre-dawn earthquake struck the Los Angeles area, claiming 61 lives and causing widespread damage.
1994 On this day in history liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment
1995 On January - 17 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)
1995 A powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing more than 5,000 people on January - 17.
1995 On this day in history more than 6,000 die as a magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Kobe, Japan.
1995 Great Hanshin earthquake in Japan killing 6,434 people on this day in history.
1996 On this day in history sheik Omar Abdel Rahman got life in prison and 16 others were also sentenced to jail for plotting to bomb the United Nations.
1998 On January - 17 president Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones
2000 On January - 17 almost 50,000 people marched in Columbia, S.C., to protest the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the state Capitol.
2001 On January - 17 jewish Holocaust survivors win compensation deal from Austria for assets stripped from them when Austria was part of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
2001 Parts of California were plunged into darkness after utility companies failed to deliver enough electrical power. The rolling blackouts affected as many as 2 million people on this day in history.
2002 On this day in history the U.S. Justice Department began an international manhunt for five suspected al-Qaida members believed to be plotting a new suicide attack.
2002 The volcano on Mount Nyiragongo, near the town of Goma in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, erupted causing at least 45 deaths and leaving an estimated 55,000 people homeless on this day in history.
2004 On January - 17 authorities placed the U.S. military death toll in Iraq at 500, including 346 in combat.
2007 On this day in history doomsday Clock is set to 5 minutes to midnight.
2007 On January - 17 hurricane force winds from storm Kyrill claim at least 40 lives in western Europe.
2007 Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were alleged to have been racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on January - 17.
2013 106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs on January - 17.
2014 21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan on January - 17.
2017 US President Barack Obama commutes WikiLeaks discloser Chelsea Manning's prison sentence from 35 to 7 years on this day in history.
2017 On January - 17 nigerian military mistakely bomb refugee camp killing more than 70 in Rann, Borno state
2017 On January - 17 search for missing aircraft MH370 over the Indian Ocean is called off
2019 A vehicle-bound suicide bomb attack in Bogotá, Colombia, kills 22 people and injures 68 others, making it the deadliest attack on the Colombian capital since 2003 on this day in history.
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