History for January 17 - On-This-Day.com
Benjamin Franklin 1706, David Lloyd George (Britain) 1863, Al Capone 1899 - Gangster
James Earl Jones 1931 - Actor, "Star Wars" movies as the voice of Darth Vader, Muhammad Ali 1942 - Boxer, Michelle Obama 1964
1773 - Captain Cook's Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.
1893 - The Kingdom of Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.
1912 - English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there by one month. Scott and his party died during the return trip.
1913 - All partner interests in 36 Golden Rule Stores were consolidated and incorporated in Utah into one company. The new corporation was the J.C. Penney Company.
1934 - Ferdinand Porsche submitted a design for a people's car, a "Volkswagen," to the new German Reich government.
1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody. Wallenberg was credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews.
1961 - In his farewell address, U.S. President Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."
1994 - The Northridge earthquake rocked Los Angeles, CA, registering a 6.7 on the Richter Scale. At least 61 people were killed and about $20 billion in damage was caused.
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