This day in History - January 17

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