WEDNESDAY, Jan. 17, 2024

1501-Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna

1584-Bohemia adopts the Gregorian calendar

1929-Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre"

1944-Corvette Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean

1946-United Nations Security Council holds its first meeting

1951-China refuses cease-fire in Korea

1957-9-county commission recommends creation of BART

1966-USAF B-52 carrying 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die

1976-Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency

1977-Zaire President Mobutu visits Belgium

1979-Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran

1983-Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians

1987-President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran

1989-Victoria Murden & Shirley Metz are first women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)

199-Iraq fires 8 SCUD missiles on Israel - first U,S, pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)

1995-7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)

1995-Los Angeles Rams announce that they are moving to St. Louis

1997-NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely/$25,000 for kicking cameraman

1998-President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones