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01/17/1878
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Oscar Apfel, Cleve, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Inspiration, Before Dawn)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1880
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Mack Sennett, movie creator (Keystone Kops)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1881
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Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1882
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1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office
Type: Event
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01/17/1884
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Noah Beery, US actor (Mark of Zorro, Sea Wolf)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1885
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Brits beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan
Type: Event
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01/17/1885
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E Ball-Hennings, writer
Type: Birth
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01/17/1885
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Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader
Type: Birth
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01/17/1886
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Glenn Luther Martin, aviator (Collier Trophy-1933)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1886
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Ronald Firbank, London, novelist (Flower Beneath the Foot)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1886
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Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51
Type: Death
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01/17/1889
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Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56
Type: Death
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01/17/1890
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Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
Type: Death
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01/17/1891
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Marjorie Gateson, Bkln NY, actress (One Man's Family)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1891
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Norman "Squab" Read, US aviator who lived to be 101
Type: Birth
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01/17/1891
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Walter Eucken, German economist
Type: Birth
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01/17/1891
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Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
Type: Death
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01/17/1892
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Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27
Type: Death
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01/17/1893
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-17øF (-27øC), Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
Type: Event
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01/17/1893
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Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
Type: Event
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01/17/1893
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Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70
Type: Death
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01/17/1895
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French president Casimir-Perier resigns
Type: Event
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01/17/1895
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F‚lix Faure installed as president of France
Type: Event
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01/17/1896
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Harry Reser, Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1897
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Nils Asther, Malm” Sweden, actor (Bluebeard, Night Monster)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1899
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US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
Type: Event
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01/17/1899
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Al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1899
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Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1899
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Robert Maynard Hutchins, US, educator/civil libertarian
Type: Birth
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01/17/1899
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Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary (1 Man Without Character)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1900
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Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts
Type: Birth
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01/17/1901
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Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer
Type: Birth
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01/17/1901
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Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
Type: Death
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01/17/1902
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Geoffrey W Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy (1951-55)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1902
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Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
Type: Death
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01/17/1903
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Warren Hull, Gasport NY, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1904
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Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
Type: Event
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01/17/1904
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Grant Withers, Pueblo CO, actor (Oklahoma, Annie)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1904
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Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Quebec, Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1905
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Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer and C G Scannell, Chicago
Type: Event
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01/17/1905
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Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn (1931)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1907
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Henk H Badings, Bandung Indonesia, Dutch opera composer (Orestes)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1908
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Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, producer
Type: Birth
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01/17/1908
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Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
Type: Death
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01/17/1910
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Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore)
Type: Birth
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01/17/1910
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Michael Economides, restaurateur
Type: Birth
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01/17/1910
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Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
Type: Death
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01/17/1910
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Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
Type: Death
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01/17/1911
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Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
Type: Event
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01/17/1911
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Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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