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
- 1287 –King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
- 1377 –Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
- 1524 –Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
- 1595 –Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
- 1608 –Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
- 1893 –The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- 1904 –Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
- 1912 –Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
- 1929 –Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
- 1941 –Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive victory over the Royal Thai Navy.
- 1944 –World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
- 1945 –The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
- 1946 –The UN Security Council holds its first session.
- 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.
- 1989 –Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
- 1991 –Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
- 2002 –Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
- 2007 –The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
- 2008 –British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
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