About January 17
January 17, 2025 is the 17th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 348 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 12 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 17
- 1377 –Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
- 1562 –France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
- 1595 –Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
- 1773 –Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
- 1811 –Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionists.
- 1852 –The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
- 1893 –The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- 1912 –Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
- 1929 –Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days into his reign.
- 1929 –Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
- 1945 –The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
- 1950 –The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company’s offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1966 –A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.
- 1977 –Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States.
- 1981 –President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
- 1991 –Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
- 1996 –The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
- 1997 –A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
- 1998 –Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
- 2007 –The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
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