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    Today in History
    THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2019
    Posted : 2019-01-16 18:10
    Updated : 2019-01-16 18:10
    Today is Thursday, January 17, the 17th day of 2019. There are 348 days left in the year.

    1718 — Avalanche destroys Leukerbad, Switzerland

    1757 — German Diet declares war on Prussia

    1827 — Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander

    1852 — British recognize independence of Transvaal, South Africa

    1871 — First cable car patented

    1904 — Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at the Moscow Art Theater

    1912 — English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole

    1914 — Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus" premieres in Berlin

    1915 — Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine





     
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