414 Historic Events for January 17
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| 1878 |
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Oscar Apfel, Cleve, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Inspiration, Before Dawn)
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| 1880 |
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Mack Sennett, movie creator (Keystone Kops)
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| 1881 |
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Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders)
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| 1882 |
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1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office
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| 1884 |
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Noah Beery, US actor (Mark of Zorro, Sea Wolf)
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| 1885 |
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Brits beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan
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| 1885 |
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Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader
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| 1885 |
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E Ball-Hennings, writer
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| 1886 |
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Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51
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| 1886 |
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Ronald Firbank, London, novelist (Flower Beneath the Foot)
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| 1886 |
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Glenn Luther Martin, aviator (Collier Trophy-1933)
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| 1889 |
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Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56
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| 1890 |
Death |
Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
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| 1891 |
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Walter Eucken, German economist
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| 1891 |
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Marjorie Gateson, Bkln NY, actress (One Man's Family)
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| 1891 |
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Norman "Squab" Read, US aviator who lived to be 101
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| 1891 |
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Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
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| 1892 |
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Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27
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| 1893 |
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-17øF (-27øC), Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
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| 1893 |
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Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
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| 1893 |
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Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70
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| 1895 |
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French president Casimir-Perier resigns
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| 1895 |
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F‚lix Faure installed as president of France
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| 1896 |
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Harry Reser, Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
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| 1897 |
Birth |
Nils Asther, Malm” Sweden, actor (Bluebeard, Night Monster)
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