Page 10: Historical Events In January - 17

1992  On this day in history sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)   

1992  Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95 on January - 17.   

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 January - 17 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 this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment   

1995  7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die) on January - 17.   

1995  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1996  Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman got life in prison and 16 others were also sentenced to jail for plotting to bomb the United Nations on this day in history.   

1998  On this day in history 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 this day in history jewish Holocaust survivors win compensation deal from Austria for assets stripped from them when Austria was part of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.   

2001  On January - 17 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.   

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 this day in history.   

2007  Doomsday Clock is set to 5 minutes to midnight on this day in history.   

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

2007  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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 January - 17.   

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

2017  On this day in history 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 January - 17.   

2024  On January - 17 uK royal palace announces Catherine, Princess of Wales is hospitalized for abdominal surgery and King Charles III is receiving prostate treatment [1]   

2025  26th US military lethal strike in international waters of a suspected drug smuggling vessel kills four on January - 17.   

2025  On January - 17 thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years are found on a mountain in Stelvio National Park in northern Italy [1]   

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1342  Philip, the Bold, duke of Burgundy was born on this day in history.   

1463  On this day in history birth of frederick III, the Wise, elector of Saxony (1486-25), protector Luther   

1484  George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545) was born on January - 17.   

1501  On January - 17 birth of leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants)   

1504  On this day in history birth of pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri] saint, pope (1566-72)   

1517  Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of Johannes) was born on January - 17.   

1545  On January - 17 birth of antonio Pace, composer   

1560  Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624) was born on this day in history.   

0395  On January - 17 theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49   

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

1119  Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies on this day in history.   

1229  On this day in history albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68   

1369  Death of King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328) on this day in history.   

1468  On January - 17 death of skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)   

1598  On this day in history death of fyodor I Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)   

1604  On January - 17 santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61