Historical Events In January - 17

1992  On January - 17 sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)  

1992  On January - 17 bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95  

1993  14th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 32 awards on this day in history.  

1993  On January - 17 ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies  

1994  On this day in history 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage  

1994  On this day in history a magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes Southern California, killing 61 people and causing $20 billion in damage.  

1994  A pre-dawn earthquake struck the Los Angeles area, claiming 61 lives and causing widespread damage on January - 17.  

1994  Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment on this day in history.  

1995  7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die) on this day in history.  

1995  On January - 17 a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing more than 5,000 people.  

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 January - 17.  

1996  On January - 17 sheik Omar Abdel Rahman got life in prison and 16 others were also sentenced to jail for plotting to bomb the United Nations.  

1998  President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones on January - 17.  

2000  Almost 50,000 people marched in Columbia, S.C., to protest the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the state Capitol on this day in history.  

2001  Jewish Holocaust survivors win compensation deal from Austria for assets stripped from them when Austria was part of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich on this day in history.  

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 January - 17.  

2002  The U.S. Justice Department began an international manhunt for five suspected al-Qaida members believed to be plotting a new suicide attack on January - 17.  

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  Authorities placed the U.S. military death toll in Iraq at 500, including 346 in combat on January - 17.  

2007  Doomsday Clock is set to 5 minutes to midnight on January - 17.  

2007  On this day in history hurricane force winds from storm Kyrill claim at least 40 lives in western Europe.  

2007  On January - 17 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.  

2013  On January - 17 106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs  

2014  21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan on this day in history.  

2017  On January - 17 uS President Barack Obama commutes WikiLeaks discloser Chelsea Manning's prison sentence from 35 to 7 years  

2017  Nigerian military mistakely bomb refugee camp killing more than 70 in Rann, Borno state on January - 17.  

2017  Search for missing aircraft MH370 over the Indian Ocean is called off on January - 17.  

2019  On this day in history 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.  

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1342  Philip, the Bold, duke of Burgundy was born on January - 17.  

1463  Frederick III, the Wise, elector of Saxony (1486-25), protector Luther was born on January - 17.  

1484  On January - 17 birth of george Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545)  

1501  Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants) was born on this day in history.  

1504  On January - 17 birth of pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri] saint, pope (1566-72)  

1517  On this day in history birth of antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of Johannes)  

1545  On this day in history birth of antonio Pace, composer  

1560  On this day in history birth of gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)  

0395  Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1103  On this day in history frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies  

1119  On January - 17 boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies  

1229  Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68 on this day in history.  

1369  Death of King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328) on January - 17.  

1468  Death of Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405) on this day in history.  

1598  On January - 17 death of fyodor I Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)  

1604  On this day in history santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61