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| January 17th |
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| About January 17th is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 348 days remaining until the end of the calendar year (349 in leap years). Births 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, scientist, inventor, statesman 1922 - Betty White, actress (Golden Girls, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) 1927 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer ("Santa Baby") 1939 - Maury Povich, talk show host (Maury) 1942 - Muhammad Ali, professional boxer 1962 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian (Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber) 1964 - Michelle Obama, First Lady 1971 - Kid Rock, singer, songwriter, musician 1982 - Dwyane Wade, professional basketball player Deaths 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. President 2007 - Art Buchwald, humorist (The Washington Post) 2008 - Bobby Fischer, world class chess player 2009 - Susanna Foster, actress (The Phantom of the Opera) Events 1917 - A group of golfers gather at the Taplow Club in New York City to lay out plans for the PGA. 1917 - The United States purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million. 1949 - The first American sitcom, "The Goldbergs" first aired on CBS. 1950 - Eleven men steal more than $2 million from the Brinks Armored Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts. 1961 - President Dwight Eisenhower delivers a farewell address to the nation and warns against the "military-industrial complex". 1969 - The Beatles release the album Yellow Submarine to compliment the movie. It was one of the few Beatles albums to not reach the top spot on the charts. 1971 - The Baltimore Colts defeat the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V, held at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. 1982 - The day became known as "Cold Sunday" as air swept down from Canada giving may places in the United States record low temperatures, including -52° in Tower, MN, -27° in Chicago, IL, and -2° in Birmingham, AL. 1994 - 67 people are killed as a 6.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California. 1995 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing over $100 billion in damage and killing 6,434 people. 2002 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo killing 45 people and displacing 400,000. |
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