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
- 38 BC –Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
- 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.
- 1562 –France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
- 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.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
- 1899 –The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1950 –The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company’s offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1961 –Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
- 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.
- 1998 –Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
- 2001 –U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis’ rank from Lieutenant to Captain.
- 2002 –Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
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