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January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 348 days remain until the end of the year (349 in leap years). Events. Pre-1600. 38 BC – ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Red Sea crisis. 2024 missile strikes in Yemen. The United States Central Command says another round of U.S. strikes has destroyed 14 anti-ship missiles in Yemen that were being prepared to launch at merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region.
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States ; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of ...
The United States Supreme Court upholds a law that could ban TikTok in the United States on January 19 unless the social media platform is sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance. (AP) A judge in Bolivia orders the arrest of former Bolivian President Evo Morales on statutory rape charges.
Armed conflicts and attacks. War in Afghanistan. 2021 Afghanistan attacks; Taliban insurgency. Two judges, both female, are shot dead in an ambush while en-route to their offices at the Supreme Court in Kabul; their driver is wounded.
January 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 18. All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 30 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For January 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 4.
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January 17: National Day in Minorca 1377 – Pope Gregory XI (pictured) entered Rome after a four-month journey from Avignon , returning the Papacy to its original city and effectively becoming the last Avignon Pope .