Did you know the facts of January 17? Are you ready to know about what are the historical events, famous people born and dead, some facts and the things that happened on the 17th of January? We are now on the seventeenth day of this fresh year. Keep updating yourself by reading this.
This day is observed every year on the third Monday of January. King was an influential civil rights leader best known for his work on racial equality and ending racial segregation in the United States. His life and achievements are remembered and celebrated on this day.
It’s hot!!! It’s buttered!!! Have you tasted it? It’s the perfect opportunity to try on this day. Hot buttered rum is a mixed drink containing rum, butter, hot water or cider, sweetener, and spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. It originated in Europe and was most often enjoyed in the fall of winter.
This day was celebrated to pay tribute to one of the greatest founding fathers of the U.S. on the anniversary of his birth. The hats of Benjamin Franklin wore in his mind-boggling with the inventor, author, printer, politician, musician, diplomat, and scientist. He was a man of many exceptional talents, and that fact alone is worthy of celebrating.
A large-scale earthquake struck the Osaka-Kobe (Hanshin) metropolitan area of western Japan, among the strongest, deadliest and costliest to ever strike the country. On that impact, killing an estimated 6400 people and causing major damages.
In this riot were clashes between Muslims and Christians ethnic groups in central Nigeria in and near the city of Jos. The clashes have been characterized as ‘religious violence’ by many news sources, although others cite ethnic and economic differences as the root of the violence. It results in at least 200 deaths.
The Doomsday clock is a symbol that represents the like hood of a man-made global catastrophe. The main factors influencing the clock are nuclear risk and climate change. This is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea’s nuclear testing.
Cape Canaveral, Air Force Station, is a Delta II carrying GPS IIR-1 satellite that explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
Sanford Ballard Dole was the first president of the Republic of Hawaii. Acting for Hawaiian sugar interests and their American allies, a committee led by Sanford Ballard Dole deposed Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani this day in 1893. It installed a provisional government with Dole as president.
It is an active stratovolcano with an elevation of 3470 m in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift. It erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
Devlin is a Canadian-Italian auto racing driver currently competing in Indy Lights. In 2015, he was selected to be a part of the Generation Ganassi Driver Identification Program, a talent development program sponsored by Chip Ganassi Racing.
He was popularly known as M.G.R was an Indian actor, filmmaker, and politician who served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for ten years between 1977 and 1987. He was also known as people’s king ‘Makkal Thilagam’ with the popular masses.
Bobby is often considered the greatest chess player of all time and began playing chess at the age of six. He defeated chess master Donald Byrne in what has been called ‘The Game of the Century. Bobby became the grandmaster at only 15 and won the world chess championship in 1963.
Betty Smith was an American author. She is best known for her 1943 bestselling book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The book is a largely autobiographical work.
I hope that you people can get most of the information that happened on the day of 17th January. The days, events, births, and deaths are shared in this article, making you a clear definition of all these days. Hope you learned and enjoyed it.
