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381 Incidents Listed
Death
Jan 17, 1908
Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany
(b. 1835)
Birth
Jan 17, 1907
Henk Badings
Dutch composer (d. 1987)
Birth
Jan 17, 1905
Guillermo Stábile
Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
Birth
Jan 17, 1905
Jan Zahradníček
Czech poet (d. 1960)
Birth
Jan 17, 1905
Peggy Gilbert
American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)
Birth
Jan 17, 1905
Ray Cunningham
American baseball player (d. 2005)
Other Event
Jan 17, 1904
Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
Birth
Jan 17, 1903
Jyoti Prasad Agarwala
Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953)
Birth
Jan 17, 1903
Warren Hull
American actor (d. 1974)
Death
Jan 17, 1903
Ignaz Wechselmann
Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
Birth
Jan 17, 1902
Nazım Hikmet
Turkish poet (d. 1963)
Birth
Jan 17, 1901
Aron Gurwitsch
Lithuanian- philosopher (d. 1973)
Other Event
Jan 17, 1899
The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
Birth
Jan 17, 1899
Al Capone
American gangster (d. 1947)
Birth
Jan 17, 1899
Robert Maynard Hutchins
president of University of Chicago (d. 1977)
Birth
Jan 17, 1899
Nevil Shute
English author (d. 1960)
Birth
Jan 17, 1897
Marcel Petiot
French mass murderer (d. 1946)
Other Event
Jan 17, 1893
The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Death
Jan 17, 1893
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
Death
Jan 17, 1891
George Bancroft
U.S. historian (b. 1800)
Birth
Jan 17, 1887
Ola Raknes
Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
Death
Jan 17, 1887
William Giblin
Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
Birth
Jan 17, 1886
Ronald Firbank
British novelist (d. 1926)
Birth
Jan 17, 1886
Glenn L. Martin
American aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
Other Event
Jan 17, 1885
A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
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