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The following events took place on January 17. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 55 events. Showing 31 - 55.

• 1945

  The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
• 1945

  Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
• 1946

  The UN Security Council holds its first session.
• 1949

  The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time.
• 1950

  The Great Brink’s Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than 2 million from an armored car company’s offices in Boston.
• 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” as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
• 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.
• 1966

  Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
• 1969

  Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
• 1977

  Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
• 1981

  President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
• 1982

  “Cold Sunday”: in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
• 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 eight 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 occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
• 1996

  The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
• 1997

  Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: 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.
• 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.
• 2010

  Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.

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