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
- 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.
- 1773 –Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
- 1903 –El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
- 1912 –Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
- 1918 –Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
- 1941 –Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive victory over the Royal Thai Navy.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
- 1949 –The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1983 –The tallest department store in the world, Hudson’s, flagship store in downtown Detroit closes due to high cost of operating.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
- 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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