About January 17
January 17, 2024 is the 17th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 24 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 17
- 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.
- 1648 –England’s Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
- 1885 –A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
- 1904 –Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
- 1913 –Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
- 1918 –Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
- 1929 –Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days into his reign.
- 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 –World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
- 1961 –U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the “military-industrial complex”.
- 1981 –President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
- 1982 –“Cold Sunday” - in the United States temperatures fell to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
- 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.
- 1991 –Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
- 1992 –During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
- 1994 –1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
- 1995 –The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
- 1996 –The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
- 2002 –Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
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