Today in History for 17th January 2017:
Historical Events
1656 – Brandenburg and Sweden sign Treaty of Königsberg
1862 – -Jan 22nd) BBT Ft Henry, TN by USS Lexington
1933 – Bradman takes second Test wicket, Hammond, bowled
1954 – Suggs Louise wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open (Cloister)
1995 – “Carousel” closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 322 performances
2013 – 106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs
Famous Birthdays
1885 – Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker’s union leader
1886 – Ronald Firbank, novelist (Flower Beneath the Foot), born in London, England
1908 – Cus D’Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
1925 – Annie Delorie, Dutch opera singer (Scenes and Arias)
1940 – Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet (Fireflames)
1973 – Amanda Elizabeth Spivey, Spartanburg SC, Miss America-SC (1996)
Famous Deaths
1938 – William Pickering, American astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79
1991 – Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies
1993 – Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies
1996 – Barbara Charline Jordan, politician, dies at 59
1996 – John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83
1999 – Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)