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'''1873'''
{{history calendar/calendar event|year=1873 |month=01|day=17|event=Indigenous [[Modoc]] fighters defeat the [[US|US army]] in the [[First Battle of the Stronghold]].}}
'''1899'''
{{history calendar/calendar event|year=1899 |month=01|day=17|event=The [[United States of America]] annexes [[Wake Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]].}}
'''1917'''
{{history calendar/calendar event|year=1917 |month=01|day=17|event=The United States buys the [[Virgin Islands]] from [[Denmark]].}}
'''1920'''
{{history calendar/calendar event|year=1920 |month=01|day=17|event=The [[Prohibition|National Prohibition act]] is passed in the United States.}}
'''1945'''
{{history calendar/calendar event|year=1945 |month=01|day=17|event=The [[SS]] begins evacuating [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp as the [[Red Army]] closes in.}}
'''1961'''
'''1961'''
{{history calendar/calendar event|year=1961|month=01|day=17|event=Execution of [[Patrice Lumumba]]}}
{{history calendar/calendar event|year=1961|month=01|day=17|event=[[DRC|Congolese]] independence leader [[Patrice Lumumba]] is executed near [[Lubumbashi|Élisabethville]] at the United States' and [[Belgium]]'s behest.}}
 
'''1969'''
{{history calendar/calendar event|year=1969 |month=01|day=17|event=[[Black Panthers]] [[John Huggins]] and [[Bunchy Carter]] are killed on the [[UCLA]] campus.}}
 
'''2005'''
{{history calendar/calendar event|year=2005 |month=01|day=17|event=[[Communist Party of China|CPC]] General Secretary [[Zhao Ziyang]] dies aged 85 in [[Beijing]], [[China]].}}

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