On This Very Day
January 17th
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- 27
The Roman Senate grants the honorific Augustus to Octavian, marking the Roman Empire's establishment.
- 1896
First five-player college basketball game played in Iowa City, Iowa.
- 1912
Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrives at the South Pole, a month after Amundsen.
- 1917
US acquires the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
- 1929
Popeye makes his first appearance in the comic strip 'Thimble Theater'.
- 1994
6.6 magnitude earthquake hits Los Angeles, killing 60 and causing $30 billion in damage.
- 1995
7.2 magnitude earthquake devastates Kobe, Japan, killing 5,372 people.
- 1997
NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely for kicking a cameraman.
- 2002
Mount Nyiragongo erupts in Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
- 1942
Muhammad Ali, iconic American boxer, is born.
- 1962
Jim Carrey, Canadian/American actor and producer, is born.
- 1706
Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and founding father, is born.
- 2008
Bobby Fischer, American chess grandmaster, passes away.
- 1899
Al Capone, notorious American gangster, is born.
- 1773
Captain Cook's ship Resolution becomes the first to cross the Antarctic Circle.
- 1950
Thieves in Boston pull off the historic Brink’s robbery.
- 1893
Americans orchestrate the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy.
- 1916
The Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) is formed. View Post →
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