In the present day is Friday, Jan. 17, the seventeenth day of 2025. There are 348 days left within the yr.
In the present day in historical past:
On Jan. 17, 1920, prohibition of alcohol started in the USA because the Volstead Act went into impact in help of the 18th Modification.
Additionally on this date:
In 1950, the Nice Brink’s Theft befell as seven masked males held up the Brink’s Constructing in Boston, stealing $1.2 million in money and $1.5 million in checks and cash orders.
In 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his farewell handle through which he warned in opposition to “the acquisition of unwarranted affect, whether or not sought or unsought, by the military-industrial advanced.”
In 1977, convicted assassin Gary Gilmore, 36, was killed by a firing squad at Utah State Jail within the first U.S. execution in a decade.
In 1990, The 4 Seasons, The 4 Tops, The Kinks, The Platters, Simon and Garfunkel and The Who have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame.
In 1994, the Northridge earthquake rattled the Los Angeles space; the magnitude 6.7 quake was chargeable for 57 deaths, 9,000 accidents and an estimated $25 billion in damages.
In 1995, greater than 6,000 folks have been killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of seven.2 struck town of Kobe (koh-bay), Japan.
In 2022, as Russian troops stationed close to Ukraine’s border launched drills, Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov angrily rejected U.S. allegations that Moscow was making ready a pretext to invade Ukraine.
In the present day’s birthdays:
- Rock musician Mick Taylor is 76.
- Politician-lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is 71.
- Singer-songwriter Steve Earle is 70.
- Singer Paul Younger is 69.
- Actor-comedian Steve Harvey is 68.
- Singer Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) is 66.
- Actor-comedian Jim Carrey is 63.
- Creator-journalist Sebastian Junger is 63.
- Former first girl Michelle Obama is 61.
- Musician Child Rock is 54.
- Rapper Lil Jon is 53.
- Actor-singer Zooey Deschanel is 45.
- Dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy (TV: “Dancing with the Stars”) is 45.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Dwyane Wade is 43.
- DJ-musician Calvin Harris is 41.
- Boxer Oleksandr Usyk is 38.
- Actor Kelly Marie Tran is 36.
- Boxer-actor Jake Paul is 28.