Events on January 17, 2011
Australia: Australian OpenBob Hope Chrysler Classic
The Business of America Quotation
Cable Car Patent
Capone, Al (Birth Date)
First Nuclear-Powered Submarine Voyage
Franklin, Benjamin (Birth Date)
"Frontline" TV Premiere
"The Goldbergs" TV Premiere
Hutchins, Robert Maynard (Birth Date)
Ike's Farewell (50th Anniversary)
Japan Suffers Major Earthquake
Judgment Day
Kid Inventors' Day
King, Martin Luther, Jr: Birthday Observed
Martin Luther King, Jr, Federal Holiday
Mexico: Blessing of the Animals At the Cathedral
National Fresh-Squeezed Juice Week
Palomares Hydrogen Bomb Accident (45th Anniversary)
Pga of America Founded (95th Anniversary)
Poland: Liberation Day
Popeye Debuts
Queen Liliuokalani Deposed
Rush, William (Death Date)
Saint Anthony's Day
Southern California Earthquake
Stock Exchange Holiday (Martin Luther King Day)
Birthdays on January 17, 2011
Muhammad Ali, 69, former heavyweight champion boxer, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr, at Louisville, KY, Jan 17, 1942.Naveen Andrews, 42, actor (“Lost,” The English Patient), born London, England, Jan 17, 1969.
Cuauhtémoc Blanco, 38, soccer player, born Mexico City, Mexico, Jan 17, 1973.
Jim Carrey, 49, actor (Dumb and Dumber, The Truman Show, Ace Ventura), comedian (“In Living Color”), born Newmarket, ON, Canada, Jan 17, 1962.
James Earl Jones, 80, actor (The Great White Hope; Roots: The Next Generations), born Arktabula, MS, Jan 17, 1931.
Newton Minow, 85, former head of the Federal Communications Commission (1961–63), called television a “vast wasteland,” born Milwaukee, WI, Jan 17, 1926.
Michelle Obama, 47, First Lady, wife of Barack Obama, 44th president of the US, born Michelle Robinson at Chicago, IL, Jan 17, 1964.
Maury Povich, 72, talk show host, born Washington, DC, Jan 17, 1939.
Vidal Sassoon, 83, hair-stylist, born London, England, Jan 17, 1928.
Dwyane Wade, 29, basketball player, born Chicago, IL, Jan 17, 1982.
Betty White, 87, actress (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Golden Girls”), animal rights activist, born Oak Park, IL, Jan 17, 1924 (some sources say 1922).
Donald William (Don) Zimmer, 80, baseball manager and former player, born Cincinnati, OH, Jan 17, 1931.
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