Historical Events In January - 17

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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1342  On January - 17 birth of philip, the Bold, duke of Burgundy  

1463  On January - 17 birth of frederick III, the Wise, elector of Saxony (1486-25), protector Luther  

1484  George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545) was born on this day in history.  

1501  On this day in history birth of leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants)  

1504  Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri] saint, pope (1566-72) was born on January - 17.  

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

1545  Antonio Pace, composer was born on January - 17.  

1560  On January - 17 birth of gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)  

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

1103  Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies on January - 17.  

1119  Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies on January - 17.  

1229  On January - 17 albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68  

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

1468  On this day in history death of skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)  

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

1604  Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61 on January - 17.